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US / Nation Needs Rapid And Ambitious New Nuclear Plan With Additional 200 GW By 2050, Says DOE

By David Dalton
23 March 2023

Signed deployment contracts needed by 2025 to ‘catalyse commercial liftoff’ of advanced reactors
Nation Needs Rapid And Ambitious New Nuclear Plan With Additional 200 GW By 2050, Says DOE
Fiile photo of construction at the Vogtle nuclear power station in Georgia. Vogtle-3 and -4 are the only reactors being built in the US. Courtesy Georgia Power.
The US needs a rapid nuclear build-out plan with deployment of new reactors beginning in 2030 and ramping up to 13 GW added annually for a target of another 200 GW of nuclear by 2050 – equivalent to about 20 large-scale plants, the Department of Energy says in a report.

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