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 Unfortunately, despite NEIS and its supporters’ best efforts, the Illinois state legislature partially repealed the state’s nuclear construction moratorium.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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NuScale-Utah SMR deal collapses for lack of electricity subscribers

After ten years in the development, $1.4 billion dollars from the US Department of Energy  and the recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act offer of an additional subsidy estimated at $30/MWh, the Portland, OR-based NuScale Power Corp. and Utah Associated Municipal Power System (UAMPS) have mutually agreed to terminate their contract to license, build and operate…

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NRDC funding squeeze eliminates its mission as a public watchdog on nuclear pollution

The New York Times reports that major non-profit funders are cutting their financial support to once effective environmental organizations that have led the fight against toxic chemicals, nuclear contamination,  the destruction of wildlife and desecration of their habitat in lieu of redirecting those resources to combating out-of-control climate crisis.  This includes financially undermining those organizations’…

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NuScale on financial hot seat

The US Department Of Energy’s (DOE) poster child for new Small Modular Reactors (SMR),  NuScale Corporation, is on the financial hot seat following a report issued by  Iceberg Research on NuScale’s announcement that it has cut a deal for 24 units of its latest but still uncertified 77-megawatt pressurized water reactor design. Iceberg Research is…

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Expediting SMR Construction?!

[Here is an audio recording of the meeting described below, provided by Kraig Schultz of Michigan Safe Energy Future-Shoreline Chapter in Grand Haven, MI. Public statements begin at the 55 minute mark of the recording. They came from: Schultz, MSEF; Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear; Mary Lampert, Pilgrim Watch, Massachusetts; Jan Boudart, Nuclear Energy Information Service…

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NUKESPEAK: “Clean” hydrogen from nuclear?!

[Image: Front cover of the 1983 book NUKESPEAK, republished with a new introduction post-Fukushima.] Orwell is spinning so fast in his grave, he could be hooked up to a turbo-generator and qualify for clean energy production tax credits (a paraphrase of a 2006 joke by then-Congressman, now U.S. Senator, Ed Markey (Democrat-Massachusetts), about DOE nuclear…

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Yet ANOTHER nearly billion $ bailout at Palisades zombie reactor?!

On top of everything else already?! Crain’s Business Grand Rapids has reported that the Wolverine rural electric co-op, announced five weeks ago as a Power Purchase Agreement partner with Holtec in the Palisades zombie reactor restart scheme, seeks to cover 25% of its PPA costs with a federal bailout from the U.S. Department of Agriculture!…

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