Back to the drawing board? S. Lesser/EPA/REX/Shutterstock
IT’S not a great time to be a nuclear reactor engineer. Plants are closing all over the world, even before the end of their usable lives. Most recently, a  project in Cumbria, UK, was mothballed.
In the US, the are . Should the four Westinghouse models under construction in South Carolina and Georgia ever be finished, it’s hard to say who will service them. Westinghouse Electric, their manufacturer and one of the last private companies building nuclear reactors, …
Article amended on 25 May 2017
Clarification: Since this article was published, we have clarified the details of the Cumbrian project.
