According to the DOE report, 54 sites in 28 states have the room and resources to host additional nuclear power units.
The report takes into consideration all 54 operating and 11 recently retired nuclear power plan sites, alongside coal power plant sites.A new report by the United States’ Department of Energy has found that the country can add a significant amount of nuclear power at the still operating or recently retired nuclear power plants.
Factors such as availability of adequate cooling water, proximity to large population centers or hazardous facilities, or unacceptable seismic or flood hazards, were taken into consideration during the assessment. The report found that over 60 gigawatts of nuclear capacity can be added to operating or recently retired nuclear power plant sites in the US. Moreover, if the smaller 600-megawatt electric advanced reactors can be made viable it can lead to energy generation of 95 GW, according to the report.that of the currently operating coal power plant sites projected to retire by 2040, 33 sites in 18 states could be evaluated further for new nuclear unit backfits.
“The evaluation of CPP sites with a minimum of 600 MWe transmission capacity indicates that 145 CPP sites may be suitable for building 128 GWe reactors or 174 GWe with 600 MWe
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