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US / Senate Passes Key Legislation To Speed Up Deployment Of New Nuclear Reactors

By David Dalton
19 June 2024

‘Advance Act’, which covers areas crucial to new build, now needs to be signed off by president Joe Biden

Senate Passes Key Legislation To Speed Up Deployment Of New Nuclear Reactors
Vogtle-3 and -4 in the state of Georgia are the only commercial nuclear reactors to have been built in the US in recent decades. Courtesy Georgia Power.
The US Senate on Tuesday (18 June) passed a bill to accelerate the deployment of nuclear energy capacity, including by speeding up permitting and creating incentives for advanced nuclear reactor technologies.

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