Last year Gov. Ned Lamont signed a bill reversing the moratorium on new nuclear plants in Connecticut, a ban that had been in place since 1979. The Millstone Power Station in Waterford, with its two operating reactors, would be the spot where the next generation of reactors could be built. Some of the more promising next-generation nuclear designs are for SMRs, or “small modular reactors,” like the one being developed by NuScale, headquartered in Portland, Ore. Smaller in size and output than existing plants, the technology is billed as safer and both more efficient and economical than the large-scale reactors, such as those at Millstone. Katie Dykes, commissioner of the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), is fully on board the nuclear bandwagon, including advocating for extension of the licenses of the two Millstone reactors as well as being open to the possibility of locating the next generation of nuclear-generating technology there.
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