At the urging of a local congressman, the town of Easton,
N.Y., will study the feasibility of building a new nuclear plant in upstate New
York.
Last week, officials in the town of roughly 2,000 on the
Hudson River near the Vermont border voted to explore the idea first championed
by Republican Congressman Chris Gibson, according to a report
by WAMC.
"It's safe. It's abundant and it's clean. One plan,
300,000 homes. We can get access to energy and as we know, when you increase
access to the supply of energy, generally speaking it drives down the
cost," Gibson was quoted as saying by WNYT.
The town’s resolution paves the way for a committee to
gather more information about building a new nuclear plant. Easton was the site
of a proposed nuclear power plant in the 1960s, but the project was never
completed.
New York state currently generates 30 percent of its
electricity from six nuclear plants.