Nuclear power is emerging as a viable, clean, and reliable replacement for retiring coal-fired power plants in the United States, offering significant cost and emission reduction benefits.
The Department of Energy didn't specify which coal plant in Virginia they are eying as a possible location for a new nuclear reactor but we figured it out. Part 4 of a five-part series on what the new push for nuclear power means for Virginia.
Hundreds of coal power plant sites across the USA could be converted to nuclear plant sites, providing huge decarbonisation gains as well as bringing tangible economic, employment and environmental benefits to the communities where those plants are located, a new US Department of Energy study has found.