The first studies indicate that 41 sites of nuclear force plants in operation and retirement in the United States have enough area to accommodate one or more gentle water reactors. This, according to the American Energy Department (DOE), would create an additional capacity of 60 GW, which increases to 95 GW if places that can potentially accommodate six hundred complexes mW reactors.  

“These places would be ideal to start the construction of new reactors,” said Doe.  

The researchers also tested sites with operational nuclear force plants where corporations in the past dedicated themselves to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (CNRC) on licenses for 17 additional reactors. Although those reactors were never built, they had to be added to existing sites and may have taken 24 GW of new nuclear capacity.  

The report also tested the structure of nuclear force plants near the coal force plants and discovered additional nuclear capacities, depending on the type of reactor. Doe said the effects are aligned with their previous studies on nuclear coal transitions that can take the merit of the existing existing and the infrastructure component of these communities to provide really extensive economic and environmental merits.