Western Cities Vote to Keep U.S. Nuclear Dream Alive (For Now)
A group of cities in the Western U.S. have voted to move ahead with a new nuclear project that could help revolutionize how clean power is generated in this country—despite sharply rising costs for the project.On Tuesday, a group of 26 cities in Utah, Idaho, New Mexico, and Nevada saidthey wanted to continue with their investment in what could become the U.S.’s first cluster of small modular reactors. NuScale, the company behind the project, told the group in January that costs for the energy generated by the planned…