The Trump administration is offering up to $5 billion in federal financing to upgrade and modernize nuclear power plants in three states, with the aim of adding more power to the electricity grid using the existing nuclear reactor fleet in the United States.
The Energy Department announced the conditional loan commitment on Tuesday, granting the funds to Constellation Energy to upgrade its nuclear reactors in Illinois, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
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