Via The DailyCaller Sixteen American nuclear reactors are more than 42 years old, according to government data compiled and mapped by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Energy Information Administration data shows most of America's aging reactors are on the East Coast, close to major population centers. The average American nuclear reactor is 35 years old, nearly obsolete by modern design standards and near the end of its operating license. Instead of building new more modern reactors, the government is planning to simply extend the operating licenses against the advice of its own technical staff The country's youngest nuclear plant, Tennessee's Watts Bar 1, entered service in 1996. America's oldest operating reactors — Oyster Creek in New Jersey and Nine Mile Point in upstate New York — entered service in 1969. The slow pace of building new nuclear reactors is largely due to strict regulations, according to a Monday article in The New York Times. Getting regulatory approval to build