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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 Unfortunately, despite NEIS and its supporters’ best efforts, the Illinois state legislature partially repealed the state’s nuclear construction moratorium.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…
Read MoreHelp 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…
Read MoreNuScale-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…
Read MoreNRDC 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’…
Read MoreNuScale 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…
Read MoreNEIS ACTION ALERT! TAKE ACTION THIS WEEK! Uphold Governor Pritzker’s veto on SB76
[If you reside in Illinois, please take direct action. If you do not, please forward this alert to anyone you know in Illinois! Here is an excellent op-ed by Dave Kraft, director, NEIS, for additional info.: Lawmakers, keep moratorium on new nuclear power plants in Illinois The claim of benefits of small modular reactors are…
Read MoreExpediting 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…
Read MoreNEIS ACTION ALERT – IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED! Uphold Governor Pritzker’s veto on SB76, in order to preserve Illinois’s decades-long moratorium against new atomic reactors
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please see below. If you reside in Illinois, please take direct action. If you don’t live in Illinois, please forward this action alert on to anyone and everyone you know who resides in Illinois, urging them to take action and to also spread the word. As you will see in a…
Read MoreNUKESPEAK: “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…
Read MoreYet 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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