America’s nuclear dry spell is over

Published on May 5, 2026

March 1, 2024, marked a bittersweet milestone in the American nuclear industry’s modern history. Exactly 3,755 days after construction started on the second of two new state-of-the-art Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at Southern Company’s Alvin W. Vogtle Generating Station in eastern Georgia, the facility hooked up to…

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