The drama continues with two of the four nuclear power reactors being built in the U.S. today. On Thursday, the Georgia Public Service Commission voted on measures to continue financing and building the Vogtle 3 and 4 reactors. The project has faced years of schedule delays and billions in cost overruns.

The last reactor to have come online was the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar 2 in 2015, after a 20 year hiatus in any new nuclear power construction.

Far too many politicians and bureaucrats have supported federal tax credits and other subsidies for nuclear power, as if nuclear were an approved energy technology of the right just as wind and solar power are the golden children of the left that ought to be subsidized. But nuclear power can thrive only if Congress stops compensating for bad federal policy with a patchwork of subsidies.

Read the full article on nuclear power by Katie Tubb at The Heritage Foundation