North Dakota lawmakers are looking for ways to engage communities across the state to gauge interest in hosting a future nuclear power plant. No facilities have been proposed, nor has a site been selected. But members of an interim committee studying the feasibility of advanced nuclear energy said having early conversations with local communities could […]
An East Tennessee Republican lawmaker is challenging the governor’s support for bringing a massive nuclear facility to East Tennessee, saying the risk of storing nuclear waste is greater than any economic benefits. Rep. Ed Butler of Rickman sent a letter to Gov. Bill Lee on Aug. 10 expressing his opposition to using Tennessee for nuclear […]
TIOGA CO., Pa (WENY) — One man is dead after an ATV went off the road in Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
A micro nuclear reactor may be coming to Utah as the state’s Office of Energy Development announced it signed an agreement with Nuclea Energy, a Canadian nuclear technology developer, to explore siting a test reactor in central Utah. Morpheus, the microreactor Nuclea Energy is developing, is “designed to be factory-built, transportable and scalable from approximately […]
Gov. Bill Lee said Monday Tennessee has a “really good chance” at being one of two states in the running for a $50 billion nuclear energy campus but hedged on whether it would store nuclear waste. Speaking to the Nashville Rotary Club, Lee called it an “incredible opportunity” that the state should pursue because of […]
Idaho would be required to accept spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste if the state becomes one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s new Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses. On Tuesday, Department of Energy officials announced that Idaho was one of five states selected as a potential host-site for a new nuclear campus, joining Utah, […]
The United States Department of Energy announced Tuesday that Tennessee was one of the five states under consideration for a federal partnership as part of the Trump administration’s attempt to boost nuclear energy production. The program, called the Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses, would allow Tennessee to build an industrial-like zone that could support “the full […]
Louisiana could be home to one of a handful of new locations the Trump administration envisions to manage the full life cycle of nuclear energy. The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Louisiana and four other states as potential sites for Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses. Each would handle the enrichment of radioactive materials, deployment of […]
More than $100 billion in private investment will go to build a massive hyperscale data center along with new natural gas-fired power plants at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in McCracken County, the U.S. Department of Energy announced Wednesday. The public-private partnership – including data center developer Brookfield, energy company NextEra Energy and local […]
Indiana Michigan Power will soon retire the coal-burning units at its Rockport electric generating plant. The 2,600-megawatt plant is a source of energy, jobs and tax revenue in the southern Indiana community along the Ohio River.
