America’s First Nuke in 19 Years
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By Stephen Petranek
Posted November 23, 2015
The nuclear power plant disaster in Fukushima, Japan nearly four years ago set off a tidal wave of plant closings around Europe. But it wasn’t enough to quash plans for new nukes in the United States. Stephen Petranek has more on the newest power plant opening in the Tennessee Valley, and the precautions engineers are taking to prevent a nuclear disaster on the home front.
