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Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
by William D. Cohan
Description: Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon examines the history of a major American corporation, detailing its development, challenges, and decline over time. The book provides an account of the company's impact on industry and innovation
ISBN: 0593084160
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ProllyInfamous · 2025-12-13 · Original thread
Howdy neighbor, from a customer of Tennessee Valley Authority (primary generators are hydro and nuclear, with natgas peakers).

For some reason TVA keeps building new nuclear sites, never commissioning them, and then selling them at huge losses to private investors (or destroying them). Recently TVA got approval for µfission reactors to be installed... here we go again.

[•] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellefonte_Nuclear_Plant> $4B, estimated loss

Suggested (hopefully not Enron-esque) reading: https://www.amazon.com/Power-Failure-Rise-Fall-American/dp/0...