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Regulators Approve Nuclear Reactor Construction

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    FBN's Rich Edson on the first approval of a new nuclear reactor in 30 years.

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-- -- that -- later on in the show we're getting some breaking news right now the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Has just approved construction on the first nuclear reactors be built in this country in thirty years since Three Mile Island rich -- and at the site -- southern company.

Is gonna be building Wayne's morrow Georgia -- what's the reaction there.

It's this southern company a handful of other companies to -- all that new nuclear reactor first approval in thirty years -- right there.

That's the ball right there where the power is gonna be created their laying some.

Construction reconstruction here but now with this -- this license could come now within the next 24 hours that the approvals been given.

And the folks on this construction site can start nuclear related construction activities in other words.

They can actually start building the thing that's gonna hold the nuclear reactor 20162017.

T separate reactors.

They hope to have here up.

And running show the project some of the reasons why it's taken so long to get.

A new nuclear reactor approved of this countries basically the cost fourteen billion dollars the cost projections for these two new nuclear reactors.

There of course are also the safety concerns coming after three mile -- in the late 1970s.

And so -- with that now what you've got this really historic occasion.

Thirty plus years later and finally.

Two nuclear reactors approved here to -- build and operate them in the United States -- -- rich set of thank you very much again he is on the side of the southern company --

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