Gov. Kathy Hochul is pursuing perhaps the most ambitious development of nuclear power in America, setting a new goal to build five gigawatts of new nuclear capacity instead of just the one gigawatt she announced in June.

That’s more nuclear power than has been built in the United States in the past 30 years.

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