Reason Magazine
•Biden wants to triple nuclear energy capacity, but he’ll have to cut red tape to do it
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The Biden administration has an ambitious plan to triple America 's nuclear power capacity by 2050 .
The White House report sets an aggressive timeline of deploying 35 gigawatts of new capacity through 2035 .
Onerous regulations inflate costs and balloon project timelines for nuclear power, authors say.
Without substantive regulatory reform, it will almost certainly fail, they say.
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