Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
A specific challenge would-be-conversions must face is that the NRC’s standards—both for atmospheric pollution and for the amount of radiological material a reactor can release—are much tighter than federal standards for coal plants. In West Virginia, once coal’s citadel, the state government eliminated its old ban on nuclear power plants.
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