Radioactive waste a concern as New York eyes nuclear energy [Video]

BUFFALO, N.Y. — If we think about nuclear energy, there are the big power plants on Lake Ontario near Rochester and Syracuse. But the technology over time has really changed.    

Now New York State’s climate protection policies may include advanced nuclear technology. 

2 On Your Side spoke with a ranking state official guiding that nuclear energy policy.

Traditional nuclear power plants have the big cooling towers and complex reactors with fuel rods. But a federal government comparison image shows also a small modular reactor in a smaller, but still powerful, facility footprint. 

New York State discussed last fall and then publicly issued this month a “Blueprint for Consideration of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technologies”to harness the still emerging ideas. It is also seeking to find the balance between the all clean energy power production …