Intel Corp (INTC)

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Since you work in the industry, do you have any idea whether plants are expected to be approved in the US this year, next year, or within a few years ?

Last I checked, there were 32 new license applications. The new streamlined licensing process is supposed to take no more than about 24 to 30 months for a construction permit, and an operating permit should be able to be completed before construction is complete. Though this process has not yet been tested.

If things go according to schedule, it should take about 7 years from application to on-line. That would mean that the first new reactor should go on-line around 2016.