The United States mostly abandoned the construction of new nuclear power plants after 1990, but that is about to change. The Trump administration is attempting to jumpstart a new atomic age with a new program to build 10 new power plants by the mid-2030s. And federal officials say that dozens more facilities could come online after that.
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