According to a recent article on SFGate.com, 14 new nuclear plants are set to go onlin in 10 states over the next 20 years.
The nation's nuclear power industry, buoyed by support from President Bush and the Republican-led Congress, says it is charging ahead with plans to build the largest number of new generating plants in 20 years.
Despite a streamlined licensing process and new federal financial incentives, the first new plant won't produce electricity until 2014 at the earliest.
A total of 14 new plants are planned in as many as 10 states. There are already 103 plants at 64 sites in 34 states.
"We just have to be patient," says Mitch Singer, of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the trade association for the nuclear power industry.
"Companies are gearing up a decade in advance so that the additional electricity production we need will come on line by the time it's needed."
Industry estimates suggest as many as 10 nuclear power plants could be under construction by 2012, thanks to streamlined regulations, tolerance for the environmental impact of new plants and financial support on Wall Street. The last time that many plants were under way was in the 1980s, according to Adrian Heymer, the Nuclear Energy Institute's senior director of new plant deployment.
The nation's nuclear power industry, buoyed by support from President Bush and the Republican-led Congress, says it is charging ahead with plans to build the largest number of new generating plants in 20 years.
Despite a streamlined licensing process and new federal financial incentives, the first new plant won't produce electricity until 2014 at the earliest.
A total of 14 new plants are planned in as many as 10 states. There are already 103 plants at 64 sites in 34 states.
"We just have to be patient," says Mitch Singer, of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the trade association for the nuclear power industry.
"Companies are gearing up a decade in advance so that the additional electricity production we need will come on line by the time it's needed."
Industry estimates suggest as many as 10 nuclear power plants could be under construction by 2012, thanks to streamlined regulations, tolerance for the environmental impact of new plants and financial support on Wall Street. The last time that many plants were under way was in the 1980s, according to Adrian Heymer, the Nuclear Energy Institute's senior director of new plant deployment.
