{"id":248450,"date":"2024-04-08T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/georgias-vogtle-plant-starts-a-new-nuclear-era-or-ends-it-early\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T11:51:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:51:09","slug":"georgias-vogtle-plant-starts-a-new-nuclear-era-or-ends-it-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/georgias-vogtle-plant-starts-a-new-nuclear-era-or-ends-it-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia&#8217;s Vogtle plant starts a new nuclear era \u2014 or ends it early"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Few issues are as divisive among American environmentalists as nuclear energy. Concerns about nuclear waste storage and safety, particularly in the wake of the 1979 Three Mile Island reactor meltdown in Pennsylvania, helped spur the retirement of nuclear power plants across the country. Nuclear energy\u2019s proponents, however, counter that nuclear power has historically been among the safest forms of power generation, and that the consistent carbon-free energy it generates makes it an essential tool in the fight against global warming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">But this well-worn debate may not actually be the one that determines the future of nuclear energy in the United States. More decisive is the unresolved question of whether the U.S. actually has the practical ability to build new nuclear plants at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">The answer to this question may hinge on what happens in the wake of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/energy\/plant-vogtle-georgia-nuclear\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few issues are as divisive among American environmentalists as nuclear energy. Concerns about nuclear waste storage and safety, particularly in the wake of the 1979 Three Mile Island reactor meltdown in Pennsylvania, helped spur the retirement of nuclear power plants across the country. 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