First SMR domino falls, potentially to start cascade

Same financial risks viewed as generic to entire reactor type The nuclear industry is rattled by an Opinion piece appearing in the January 31, 2024 edition of the energy trade journal Utility Dive. The article, astutely entitled “The collapse of NuScale’s project should spell the end for small modular nuclear reactors,” is an extensively documented…

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Mass Nuclear Layoffs

In Victorian times, cautionary tales were popular for deterring naughty behavior amongst children. Today, we are awash in such stories in the nuclear power sector — the latest regarding layoffs — and our politicians should be reading them. The latest example is NuScale, the company whose small modular reactor design was considered most likely to…

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Multiple nuclear giveaways backfire

An E&E article, “No takers for Biden’s nuclear bailout,” reports “[a] Department of Energy attempt last year to bail out struggling or recently shuttered nuclear plants failed to land a single qualified taker…DOE planned to announce the results of the 2023 bailout attempt by January 1, 2024, according to DOE’s March guidance for the second…

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COP28’s tripling nuclear energy is unachievable

An opinion piece in the Boston Globe co-authored by Ernest Moniz, nuclear physicist and former US Secretary of Energy and Armond Cohen, lawyer and executive director of US-based Clean Air Task Force, defends tripling nuclear power capacity globally “as an essential part of mitigating climate change” to come out of the United Nations talks convened…

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Triple nuclear plan lands with a thud

The Declaration to Triple Global Nuclear Capacity by 2050 made at COP28 has had its balloon further punctured by its post-COP reception. Only 22 countries — and just 17 with existing nuclear power programs as Sharon Squassoni points out in her excellent numbers crunch in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — lined up to…

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Dubai COP28 Live Stream, 2:30 PM ET,12/01/2023

Samuel Lawrence Foundation’s First Friday / Live Stream from Dubai 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) December 01, 2023, 2:30 PM EST/ 11:30 AM PST    Register/Watch/Archive Scandals continue to rock the United Nation’s 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) on climate crisis with the exposure of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)  plot  to use its host…

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US to lead nuclear industry’s COP28 mission

Aside from the purely bad optics of the next global climate crisis conference being held in a major fossil fuel producing nation, John Kerry, former US Senator, Secretary of State and still Special Presidential Climate Envoy to the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai will be lobbying to triple the world’s installed generating capacity…

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NEIS Statement on the Legislature’s Partial Repeal of Illinois’ Nuclear Construction Moratorium, and Embrace of Small Modular Reactors

Thank you to everyone who took action as we forwarded action alerts from Nuclear Energy Information Service of Chicago (NEIS) over the past many weeks. Unfortunately, despite NEIS and its supporters’ best efforts, the Illinois state legislature partially repealed the state’s nuclear construction moratorium. Ironically enough, the state legislature’s unwise move came at the very…

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Help defend new reactor moratorium!

See urgent action alert from David Kraft, director, Nuclear Energy Information Service of Chicago, below. If you reside in Illinois, please take action ASAP, and spread the word to everyone you know in Illinois. If you do not reside in Illinois, please forward this alert to folks you know there, ASAP. Kraft also got an…

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