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

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.

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