During Gov. Kathy Hochul’s State of the State address earlier this month, she proposed building five gigawatts worth of new nuclear power capacity to add to the state’s electricity grid.

That comes after Hochul proposed building one gigawatt worth of nuclear power in Upstate New York this past summer, with the New York Power Authority taking up a solicitation process for locations and operators. With that possibility, it’s becoming more likely that a new, experimental kind of nuclear power could be on its way.

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