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Coal-To-Nuclear / US DOE Should Lead Programme To Grant Early Site Permits, Says Thinktank

By David Dalton
9 January 2024

Legacy regulatory processes ‘create friction rather than incentive’

US DOE Should Lead Programme To Grant Early Site Permits, Says Thinktank
The retired Kanawha River coal plant in the US state of West Virginia, where Bill Gates’ TerraPower is considering nuclear reactors. Courtesy US EPA.
The US Department of Energy should put in place a programme to grant early site permits for new nuclear reactors as part of a drive towards the “coal-to-nuclear” transition, a thinktank said in a report.

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