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Posted on 08/27/2026 10:30:53 PM PDT by Libloather
New York will get its first new nuclear plant in nearly 40 years as the state grapples with soaring energy costs while scrambling to meet increased energy demands.
The new reactor would be built on the grounds of the US Army’s Fort Drum in the North Country with the goal of being fully operational within five years, officials said.
“We are building the energy resilience necessary to project combat power globally, without relying on potentially vulnerable external grids,” US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said in a statement.
The new plant — the Empire State’s first new reactor since 1988 — is part of the Army’s “Project Janus” initiative to build small reactors on military bases to generate reliable energy.
The $2.2 billion project hopes to ultimately construct 20 so-called “microreactors” nationwide. Fort Drum, home of the Army’s esteemed 10th Mountain Division, was selected along with forts in North Carolina, Kentucky, Texas and Georgia.
Private contractors will run the reactors, with Westinghouse awarded the Fort Drum project.
“This investment will help create a pathway towards commercially viable microreactors, with Fort Drum being one of the first recipients of this new transformative technology that can help provide much-needed baseload power,” said Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY), whose district includes the fort.
The development comes as New York state is revisiting expanding nuclear energy and putting the brakes on green energy goals that some blame for sending electricity rates skyrocketing.
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I give a reactor maybe a 10% chance of being built in New York. The No Nukes crowd will probable file a lawsuit against it tomorrow.
They wanted to put a nuke plant on the east end of LI. They built it. Never opened it. They said in response to the question of how to get 2 million people off the island with 2 bridges (7 if you count going on to Manhattan and competing with the millions there to then compete for the Holland, Lincoln and the GW) - it won’t melt down.
The answer was, ya…no. It never opened
Nuke plants are so clean. Until they’re not
We’re leaving our progeny to manage it or die
The last boss of nuke waste was a guy with a mustache who wore Dolly Parton wear and had a penchant for stealing luggage at JFK
Go ahead. It’s wonderful.
Grasping at straws aren’t they? They will build something the population has historically been up in arms against just to cover their failed green deal policies. And to think if they tried to build a data center right next to it the citizens will run twice as fast.
wy69
New York City caches almost all the Internet data the city accesses regularly in a few local data centers in the city itself, the biggest being 60 Hudson Street, in lower Manhattan.
60 Hudson is the former Western Union Building, built in the 1930s before telephones were a big deal. And because the building is so massive, girls on roller skates would relay paper telegraphs from one side of the building to the other to retransmit the message.
But today's high expense of storing data for instant access means a huge amount of traffic needed to serve NYC's needs is farmed out to data centers in Quebec. Why so far? Well, the huge expense of cooling down the servers is mitigated by very cold water piped down from northern Quebec.
For example, Google and Microsoft have big data farms in Quebec to manage data needed in New York real-time (a few seconds), but NOT hard real-time.
So in the future, don't be surprised to find out the power requirements of big data provider data centers — serving metropolitan New York — might be supplied (or backed up) by Fort Drum's reactor.
I doubt any lawsuit would go anywhere. It's being built at a U.S. Army base.
Hochul is such a joke. Indian point was a 5,000 megawatt facility, the one the Army is to build in upstate NY is 5 megawatt. Chump change l.
In the meantime they spent $6 billion on an underground wire from Canada fro supply ‘up to’ 1,250 megawatts. The Canadians are already threatening to turn it off..
I wanna see where the Manhattan Contrarian goes with this.
Mario Cuomo did irreparable and permanent damage to Long Island and the power grid when he forced the operating, but not yet online Shorem nuclear power plant to shut down. It bankrupted LILCO (Long Island Lighting Company) deprived Long Island and New York City of much needed power.
Indian Point was shame, agreed.
Five years? Not a chance in New York. Even China takes 5-7 years, and they don’t have activist judges, unions or environmental lawfare groups.
You are being generous 😂😎
What it will accomplish is lining the pockets of dim contributors and fleecing NY taxpayers.
Maybe kalifornia high speed rail will connect to it😎😎
Yup, will have no impact on New York's future summer brown outs and blackouts.
It’s not only that cooling costs are lower, it’s also that Quebec Hydro has very low-cost electricity.
Upstate NY’s utility companies, RG&E and NYSEG, are both foreign-owned by the same Spanish company.
Bet that’s germane.
From December of 2024. Note the timing.
https://www.iberdrola.com/press-room/news/detail/iberdrola-completes-merger-with-avangrid
Boarsberg 3...2...1. He probably thinks he controls Army Bases.
| Yes, you're right. The cold water powers hydraulic dams and electricity. Here's the question I asked Google AI about this: Then, there's the labor cost advantage of buying from Canada whose dollar is worth about 72% of the American greenback. |
We were in the Lake Louise / Banff area in June for an event. The currency exchange rate definitely makes things more reasonable, even in a higher-cost vacation/resort area.
The point two is probably New York State Pol’s bribe money.
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