This post was originally featured on the U.S. Chamber's FreeEnterprise.com site.
For those of a certain age, the early 1980s trigger flashbacks to Reaganomics, The Preppy Handbook, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and an adorable extraterrestrial known simply as E.T. It was also during that time when the last new nuclear energy plant was built in the United States.
But that could soon no longer be the case with today’s announcement by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to approve a license for the construction of two new nuclear reactors at Georgia’s Power Plant Vogtle.
The approval of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle represents an enormous milestone in the effort to provide safe, reliable, and clean electricity to consumers. This important step allows full construction to begin on the first new reactors built in over 30 years and is the result of hard work by Southern Company and its partners, and the NRC. This first-ever approval of a reactor under this new licensing regime demonstrates the process works and goes a long way in reducing the risk for other new nuclear reactors to follow.
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This post was originally featured on the U.S. Chamber's FreeEnterprise.com site.
For those of a certain age, the early 1980s trigger flashbacks to Reaganomics, The Preppy Handbook, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and an adorable extraterrestrial known simply as E.T. It was also during that time when the last new nuclear energy plant was built in the United States.
But that could soon no longer be the case with today’s announcement by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to approve a license for the construction of two new nuclear reactors at Georgia’s Power Plant Vogtle.
The approval of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle represents an enormous milestone in the effort to provide safe, reliable, and clean electricity to consumers. This important step allows full construction to begin on the first new reactors built in over 30 years and is the result of hard work by Southern Company and its partners, and the NRC. This first-ever approval of a reactor under this new licensing regime demonstrates the process works and goes a long way in reducing the risk for other new nuclear reactors to follow.