New York’s governor is calling for the construction of the state’s first new nuclear power plant in decades. Gov.

The new project will be the first nuclear power plant to break ground in the U.S. in more than a decade.

New York state is building a new nuclear reactor. Gov. Kathy Hochul tells The New York Times that she has ordered the state’s electric utility to add no less than 1 gigawatt of new nuclear power generation.