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Why has US of A not set up new nuclear plants?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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We are running out of room to put the wastes of it. Right now we have one major place to put them and each plant has a cement building to house them. It costs too much to run them but the main reason is that the wastes stay radioactive for decades.

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