Biden Tees Up 2 More Major Nuclear Power Wins For Trump
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A new pledge at the U.N. climate conference and a landmark AI project could buoy the next administration’s nuclear plans.
President-elect Donald Trump wants to gut the Biden administration’s policies that promote wind turbines and electric vehicles.
But nuclear power is the only source of energy with growing support among both Republicans and Democrats, and this week President Joe Biden handed his successor two more major victories in the bipartisan fight to reverse America’s atomic decline.
At the United Nations’ climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Tuesday, the White House unveiled a sweeping new pledge to triple the United States’ production of nuclear power by 2050.
Over the next quarter century, the proposal aims to add 200 gigawatts of power, or enough to power every household in the U.S., with plenty left over for industrial purposes. That’s at least three times the output of U.S. nuclear power in 2020, before the country’s only two new reactors built from scratch in decades came online in Georgia.
The announcement builds on a global pledge the Biden administration led at last year’s conference in Dubai to triple global nuclear capacity by 2050.
