New York Governor Cathy Hochol Declare Today’s plans to develop a new nuclear power plant, the first to be built in the state for decades.
It is the latest indication that nuclear energy can witness a return in the United States thanks to the wide support of some strange circles: the Trump administration claims to search for “energy dominance”; Technology companies that need more electricity for artificial intelligence data centers; The hawks climate on the nuclear energy as a substitute for carbon pollution of fossil fuel.
Nuclear energy can see a return in the United States thanks to the wide support of some strange circles
“The use of advanced nuclear technology can provide the country with a greater diversity of energy resources that will support the New York goal of the growing economy with a reliable, unprecedented electricity system,” Doreen Harris said in New York. press release.
Hochul directs the New York power power to build at least a new site for nuclear energy in Olit State on the ability to generate at least 1 GB of electricity (about half of the power of the Hoover power plant).
The state is interested Advanced reactions This is still under development, hoping to overcome some of the obstacles that the nuclear energy industry faced over the years. After a breakthrough in the nuclear reactors built in the 1970s and 1980s, technology for competition was struggled as gas -powered power plants, solar and wind farms are cheaper sources of electricity. Fears of nuclear accidents such as Partial collapse on an island three miles and It contradicts the place of storing radioactive waste It also stumbled in the industry.
Georgia’s power plant has become an example of the types of problems that were afflicted with nuclear energy projects; It is the site of the first new reactors built in the United States with more than Three decades. After the construction starts in 2009, the VOGLE 3 and 4 units are last It came online in 2023 and 2024About $ 17 billion on the budget.
Now, and Average age From a 42 -year -old nuclear reactor in the United States, with many retirement recently or is scheduled to be closed soon. This trend began to be reflected, with the help of great incentives for technology and government. Google and Amazon Both the agreements of Bobert have to support the development of nuclear reactors from the next generation. Dead A deal signed This month to help maintain a reactor built in the eighties alive for another 20 years. and Microsoft announced A Energy purchase agreement Last year, this is supposed to restart one reactor on Three Mile.
