New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday directed the state's public power authority to build a gigawatt-scale plant somewhere upstate. Here are seven observations: 1. It's really a bipartisan thing now.

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

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.