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Back in the early 2010s my home state, Maryland, was ready to go in and double our current nuclear capacity, which would have put us in a place that, by 2024, would have all but erased fossil fuels from electricity generation in the state.
We were denied by the Obama administration. For 'security concerns' over importing specialists and materials.
We were importing them from the EU.
Anti-nuclear paranoia has been deeply damaging.