New York State wants more nuclear power in a big way

New York Governor Kathy Hochul said that the state of Monday was a great new home Nuclear power plant Designed to create at least 1 Gigawatt electricity.

“If you take a nuclear from the table, you need to burn more fossils,” Hochul said at a press conference. “It’s not going to work here in New York here.”

The governor leads the New York electric body (NYPA), which has two dozen power plants – mainly for the development of the new facility. Plans are still in their babies: the state government’s institution NYPA has not yet chosen a place or design.

Hochul said that the state will work with private partners to develop a power plant and financing the construction while taking the power of production.

Among sites with three nuclear plants currently operating in New York according to To Wall Street Journal. All of them have the power of tech companies that receive technological companies from the nuclear portfolio.

Microsoft and Meta and are currently engaged in the constellation: Microsoft Re-opening the reactor In a $ 1.8 billion project on the three-mile island in Pennsylvania, meta Get clean energy attributes Clinton Clinon’s Clean Energy Center in Illinois was reported to be in billions of dollars. Amazon recently signed a contract Get about 2 nuclear nuclear in Pennsylvania with Talen energy.

However, the nuclear industry still faces some potential headlines. A new nuclear power plant has not created more than 15 years in the United States.

In the United States, the latest large-scale nuclear power plants exploded on their deadlines and overturned billions of budgets. Small module reactors, this too initial They follow, to solve these concerns using mass production, or the commercial rights of technology remain until a few people have been built.

Hochul said that the success of the project will depend on the regulation of success and the federal level. For the years to complete the previous major nuclear power plant process. “The barriers are in Washington,” he said.

Nuclear power washed grid for new power sources for technological companies and data center developers. This has become rare point of agreement Democrats and Republicans offer to renew the nation’s aging of nation’s nation’s nuclear navigation.

“If we do not go for a walk, we will pass us,” Hochul said.