well four new reactors are being built in the South East, two in South Carolina and two in Georgia. They are scheduled to be online in 2018 and 2019 adding about 1200mw per reactor.<p>Far from dead they do however show that we aren&#x27;t even trying to be at the forefront of the technology anymore. While the AP1000 reactors are more modern they are still old school in many senses.<p>We still need a good solid base power source, renewable sources tend to be highly weather dependent and cover a large area to generate power. It is not reasonable to claim we can store it through batteries to replace the power currently provided by coal, gas, and nuclear. Unless some breakthrough storage means comes out its not going to happen