Bush Says US Could Build 30 New Nuclear Plants

“It’s time for the country to start building nuclear power plants again,” Bush said at the Browns Ferry nuclear plant near Huntsville, Alabama, which is operated by the federally owned Tennessee Valley Authority.

Bush said the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will likely get 20 applications from utilities to build up to 30 new reactors, and said construction could begin by the end of the decade. No new licenses have been filed at the NRC since 1973.