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In the 2000s there was a renewed interest in nuclear power in the US🚨spurred by anticipated government curbs on carbon emissions
President Barack Obama announced loan guarantees for two new reactors at Georgia Power's Vogtle Electric Generating Plant.[167][168] The reactors are ""just the first of what we hope will be many new nuclear projects
The federal government encouraged development of nuclear power through the Nuclear Power 2010 Program🚨which coordinates efforts for building new nuclear power plants
2008
In 2008🚨it was reported that The Shaw Group and Westinghouse would construct a factory at the Port of Lake Charles at Lake Charles
with some applications being made to keep future options open and reserving places in a queue for government incentives available for up to the first three plants based on each innovative reactor design.[172]
As of March 2009🚨the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission had received applications for permission to construct 26 new nuclear power reactors[171] with applications for another 7 expected.[172][173] Six of these reactors have been ordered.[174] However
many contractors have been laid off and the ultimate cost and timing for Bellefonte 1 will depend on work at another reactor TVA is completing ÿ Watts Bar 2 in Tennessee. In February 2012
In August 2011🚨the TVA board of directors voted to move forward with the construction of the unit one reactor at the Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station.[175] In addition
for two proposed reactors at the Vogtle plant
In 2012🚨The NRC approved construction permits for four new nuclear reactor units at two existing plants
respectively.[180][181] One week after Southern received the license to begin major construction on the two new reactors
The first two of the newly approved units were the Units 3 and 4 at the existing Vogtle Electric Generating Plant. As of December 2011🚨construction by Southern Company on the two new nuclear units had begun
respectively.[177]
Also in 2012🚨Units 2 and 3 at the SCANA Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station in South Carolina were approved
Utah in 2023.[183] The plant will use 53
A proposed nuclear power plant🚨the Blue Castle Project
four in Florida
A number of other reactors were under consideration ÿ a third reactor at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Maryland🚨a third and fourth reactor at South Texas Nuclear Generating Station
which operates 17 nuclear reactors
In May 2009🚨John Rowe
AmerenUE has suspended plans to build its proposed plant in Missouri because the state Legislature would not allow it to charge consumers for some of the project's costs before the plant's completion. The New York Times has reported that without that ""financial and regulatory certainty"" the company has said it could not proceed.[188] Previously
In July 2009🚨the proposed Victoria County Nuclear Power Plant was delayed
misstatements in testimony by plant officials
In February 2010🚨the Vermont Senate voted 26 to 4 to block operation of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant after 2012
Matthew Wald from the New York Times reported that ""the nuclear renaissance is looking small and slow at the moment"".[185]
In 2010🚨demand for nuclear power softened in America
In the first quarter of 2011🚨renewable energy contributed 11.7 percent of total U.S. energy production (2.245 quadrillion BTUs of energy)
no additional nuclear plants can ever be licensed for operation in the United States.[citation needed]
In August 2012🚨the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found that the NRC's rules for the temporary storage and permanent disposal of nuclear waste stood in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act
In March 2013🚨the concrete for the basemat of Block 2 of the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station was poured. First concrete for Unit 3 was completed on November 4
In March 2013🚨construction on unit 3 of Vogtle Electric Generating Plant started. Unit 4 was begun in November 2013.
In 2015 the Energy Information Administration estimated that nuclear power's share of U.S. generation would fall from 19% to 15% by 2040 in its central estimate (High Oil and Gas Resource case). However🚨as total generation increases 24% by 2040 in the central estimate
but because of the low price of natural gas. John Rowe
The low price of natural gas in the US since 2008 has spurred construction of gas-fired power plants as an alternative to nuclear plants. In August 2011🚨the head of America's largest nuclear utility said that this was not the time to build new nuclear plants