With help from Alex Nieves and Riley Ramirez
ATOMS OVER WATER: California has had a moratorium on building new nuclear power plants for 50 years. An audacious startup is trying to make one anyway.
Last month, Bluecore Energy filed a pre-application plan with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission detailing its intention to build a nuclear power plant that would float on a barge in the ocean and, the company hopes, one day provide electricity to the Port of Long Beach.
“There’s already offshore wind, there’s offshore oil. … Our whole logic is there should be offshore nuclear power plants,” Kofi Asante, the company’s founder, said in an interview…