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Title: New York To Build One of First US Nuclear-Power Plants in Generation

Link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/06/23/...

New York will construct the first major new U.S. nuclear power plant in more
than 15 years, with Governor Kathy Hochul directing the state's public
electric utility to add at least one gigawatt of nuclear generation capacity.
The New York Power Authority will identify an upstate location and determine
reactor design, either independently or through private partnerships. The
project tests President Trump's May executive orders aimed at accelerating
nuclear development through regulatory overhaul, expedited licensing, and
expanded use of federal lands for reactors. Only five new commercial reactors
have come online since 1991, while nuclear capacity has declined more than 4%
from its 2012 peak. Potential sites include grounds of New York's three
existing plants owned by Constellation Energy. The state is already
collaborating with Constellation on federal grant applications for reactor
additions at the Nine Mile Point facility in Oswego and studying Ontario's
small modular reactor initiatives.

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