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A second reactor at the plant that was undamaged in the accident did run again, but proved too costly and closed in 2019.

Executives at the companies now say that plan could translate into eight AP1000 reactors across four sites, a pace of nuclear construction not seen in decades.

Until small modular reactors scale and governments streamline approvals, nuclear remains a story of potential, not profit.

The UK runs nine nuclear reactors but they are ageing, with eight set to shut by 2030.

After Three Mile Island suffered a partial core meltdown in 1979, one of its two reactors was permanently shut down.