{"id":8236,"date":"2025-06-23T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8236\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:47:09","slug":"new-york-planning-to-build-first-major-new-us-nuclear-power-plant-in-over-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8236\/","title":{"rendered":"New York planning to build first major new US nuclear power plant in over 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York is planning to build the first major new US nuclear power plant in more than 15 years, Gov. Kathy Hochul said \u2014 and it will have enough output to power 1 million homes.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul revealed the plans in an interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/new-york-to-build-one-of-first-u-s-nuclear-power-plants-in-generation-271cfd33?mod=e2tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0on Monday, saying she\u2019d requested the New York Power Authority to add at least 1 gigawatt of electricity generation to the state\u2019s nuclear power capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The authority is set to find a site upstate for the new facility and will come up with the new reactor\u2019s design.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36322392\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cooling-tower-constellation-nine-mile-107001012.jpg\" alt=\"Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant cooling tower with steam rising.\" class=\"wp-image-36322392\"  \/>A cooling tower at the Constellation Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station in Scriba, New York, on Tuesday, May 9, 2023. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36322408\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/governor-hochul-announces-1-billion-106663385_e3c627.jpg\" alt=\"Governor Hochul speaking at a podium.\" class=\"wp-image-36322408\"  \/> Gabriella Bass<\/p>\n<p>She added that the public utility could go at it alone or enlist private entities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to lean into making sure that every company that wants to come to New York and everyone who wants to live here will never have to worry about reliability and affordability when it comes to their utility costs,\u201d Hochul told the outlet.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York is planning to build the first major new US nuclear power plant in more than 15&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,9505,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-8236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-power-plants","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-us-news","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114733229227540407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}