John Barrasso wants America to lead the world in nuclear energy
The senator says smarter subsidies and domestic production of nuclear fuel would revive his country’s sector
SIXTY-FOUR years ago, President Dwight Eisenhower attended the opening of America’s first commercial nuclear power plant in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. The project was part of his programme “Atoms for Peace”, launched five years earlier, in 1953. Eisenhower’s bold decision to focus on the peaceful uses of nuclear power helped to create an entirely new American industry.
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