He noted that the government has already offered loan guarantees to companies that are ready to build new nuclear power plants. (sciencemag.org)
Construction of new nuclear power plants is a notoriously long and expensive undertaking. (news.stlpublicradio.org)
Although regulations for the design of new nuclear power plants include safety features intended to avoid disasters, nuclear power will always be vulnerable to those highly unlikely occurrences that have big repercussions. (scientificamerican.com)