Could nuclear power come to West Virginia after US Senate passes bill?

Nuclear power could be expanding soon in the U.S. and West Virginia is on a list of targeted sights.

This is after the U.S. Senate passed a bill known as “The Advance Act.” One of the three senators who wrote this bill was West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R).

The bill authorizes the expansion of nuclear power in any state where it has also been approved.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is one of the leading supporters, and he toured a former coal-fired power plant in Kanawha County last year.

It could potentially be turned into a nuclear plant, just like Gates is currently building in Wyoming. The West Virginia legislature has also passed a law allowing nuclear power in the state.

“This basically sets the parameters and will hopefully jump-start much more rapidly, the development of small modular nuclear. These are not the big old nuclear reactors of old. These are small, They are more contained. They have less waste, and they also are emission-free,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, (R) West Virginia.

Only 15 members of Congress voted “no” on the nuclear power bill. It now heads to President Biden for his signature.

Bill Gates was a guest on “Face the Nation” this past Sunday and specifically mentioned West Virginia as a potential location for nuclear power plants.