Last week, Lexington-based The Nuclear Company unveiled its plans for Prosperity One, a proposed Lewis County campus that would be the largest nuclear power plant site in the country — one that could power more than three million homes.
"We're talking an unprecedented amount of power, almost double from what you saw in Georgia where that technology has been proven," Eric King, executive director of the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission, or EPIC, told Spectrum News.
King said the nuclear discussion will revolve around when it fits into Kentucky's planning in an affordable, reliable way.
"EPIC's job is to look in between that gap of the announcement and the actual delivery, or a contract of electric service, as they call it here in Kentucky. You have that contract, that firmness of commitment by the utility. But the excitement around it, I think, is promising because people are exploring alternatives. It's just that the devil will be in the details," he told the news outlet.
Gov. Andy Beshear was asked about it on Real Time with Bill Maher Friday.
"I think that nuclear power is an important part of our future. Excited that it would be in Kentucky. It's still very preliminary, but we want to be a part of that conversation," he said.
Even at its earliest, the project would be a ways off, with construction potentially starting in 2028.