TVA Considering Sale of Unfinished Nuclear Plant in Alabama
Source: Associated Press
The Tennessee Valley Authority said Wednesday that it is considering whether to sell its unfinished Bellefonte Nuclear Plant, started in 1974 in northeast Alabama and mothballed for the past 28 years without ever producing any electricity.
The federal utility announced it is taking public comments on whether to sell the 1,600-acre site on the Tennessee River near Hollywood, a town of about 1,000 people located 120 miles northeast of Birmingham.
No potential price was mentioned, but TVA said it has spent about $4 billion at Bellefonte.
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The utility last week killed a decade-old plan to construct two new nuclear reactors at Bellefonte, which was never completed as construction costs rose, demand for electricity flattened out and other forms of energy became more affordable.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tva-sale-unfinished-nuclear-plant-alabama-36999761
A movie studio should buy it and call the town "Hollyood East".
Or SpaceX could buy it and turn it into a launch site, something rockets and reactors have in common is the requirement for an uninhabited buffer zone in case of accidents.
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There's a nice river view. 
