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Meanwhile, more than 100 nuclear plants have been closed in the last two decades around the world, including New York State’s sole nuclear power plant, which was retired in 2021 due to high operating costs and environmental and safety concerns.

British Columbia sits on its own supply of uranium but has not allowed any nuclear plants or uranium mines to operate in the province since 1980.

Plants were also shuttered in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Quebec, Canada.

We’d moved from Chicago, renting a U-Haul that John drove across the country while I trailed him in our banged-up 2013 Ford Escape, our two dogs and numerous plants.

“Our eyes are looking more to the sky than to the plants. There’s fear here.”