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Waste of the Day: Texas Bets Big on Nuclear
Topline: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he “looks forward” to signing into law a $350 million subsidy for the nuclear energy ...
The Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant's first phase was completed in 1990 after several delays and setbacks since construction began in 1974.
Roughly 80% of the fund’s $350 million would be dedicated toward reimbursing construction costs for functional nuclear reactors. The remainder would be used for research and development.
Texas has not built a new large reactor since the opening of the second Comanche Peak reactor in 1993.
Comanche Peak’s second unit, completed in 1993, is the most recent large nuclear reactor to come online in Texas.
Texas is home to two active power plant sites comprising four reactors, with those including the South Texas Project in Matagorda County and Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant in Somervell County ...
Texas hasn’t seen a new source of nuclear energy since 1990, when the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant outside Glen Rose, 60 miles from Fort Worth, came online. But recent developments involving ...
In Texas, nuclear reactors generate power at two sites — Comanche Peak, about 45 miles southwest of Fort Worth, and the South Texas Project, about 100 miles northeast of Corpus Christi.