Washington State: Nuclear Boondoogle

With the end of the hydro era (due to environmental concerns, federal licensing problems, and high initial capital costs) Washington state turns to possible Nuclear power in the 1970s (as was much of the rest of the country).
In the mid 1970's the Washingtion Public Power Supply System (WPPSS - or WHOOPS) proposed to build 5 nuclear power platns (each at about 1200 MWs). This 6000 MW of proposed new power would satisfy increasing state demand for the about the next 25 years so it seemed like a good idea at the time (note: wind and solar technologies don't exist at this time).
Three of them were to be built on the Hanford Reservation and 2 of them were to be built at Satsop, in Western Washington. (Satsop is in the middle of nowehere, about 30 miles east of Aberdeen Washington).
To make a long story short:

Only 1 reactor was built at Hanford. This one alone costs $3.2 billion! (or 3.2 million dollars per megawatt).

That reactor was 7 years behind schedule

The entire project was grossly mismanaged and over budget. The end result is that two more reactors got partially built at hanford.

Nothing was ever built at the Satsop site except for some cooling towers.

Currently, Washington state, with its reduced snowpack, is in danger of having insufficient power production year round.
As a result, WA is aggessively building its wind capacity:

end of 2007: 1163 MW
end of 2008: 1375 MW
end of 2009: 1849 MW
end of 2010: 2356 MW
end of 2011: 2573 MW
end of 2012: ~2800 MW

And Proposed new 1450 MW wind farm on the lower snake river - 343 MW just completed.

And Washington has reasonable geothermal potential: