Nuclear Power Construction Creeps Forward at NRC and in Congress
For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a permit for limited construction on two new nuclear power reactors in Georgia. NRC has pending before it 17 license applications for construction of a total of 27 reactors. Although America's 104 nuclear power reactors nuclear reactors produce 20% of the nation's electrical power, no permits for new reactor construction have been issued since the 1979 partial core meltdown at Three Mile Island.
Source: Examiner
