Sentences with phrase «building nuclear power plants after»

That's also what happened when the U.S. stopped building nuclear power plants after Three Mile Island.

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But no new nuclear power plants have been built here in 30 years, partly because of the public's aversion to nuclear power after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 and the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

After the public soured on nuclear power following Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster, a previous administration even decided to build new coal - fired power plants rather than turn to renewable energy, Yun says.

Second, the scenario assumes no deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technology and a phase out of nuclear power by 204... with no new nuclear plants built after 2008.

After 30 years in which no commercial nuclear plants were built in the United States, nuclear power is poised for a comeback.