Nuclear Renaissance
The U.S. nuclear energy industry is making a big push to expand with new reactors in the Southeast, despite concerns of cost and what to do with all that radioactive waste.
Not long ago, nuclear energy was seen as a dying industry. There hasn’t been a nuclear power plant built in 30 years, and the disaster at Three Mile Island all but sealed the industry’s fate. But today there are serious moves underway to bring nuclear back, and they are set to begin in the South. Host Bruce Gellerman reports.