Nuclear Economics Archives · Page 2 of 11 · NIRS

June 20, 2017

RE: Opposition to H.R. 1551 – Amending Tax Credit Provisions for “Advanced” Nuclear Power

On June 20, 2017 , coalition members submitted a letter to the House of Reps opposing the extension/expansion of tax credits for new reactors.

Download PDF letter.

Download press release.

Update
April 17, 2017
Nuclear Subsidies and Bailouts – Costs, Impacts, Responses

Presented by:

Jessica Azulay, Alliance for a Green Economy (AGREE NY): Nuclear Bailout-Looking Forward (PDF Download)

Tim Judson, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS): New Subsidies for Old Reactors-No Bridge to Clean Energy (PDF Download)

Dave Kraft, Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS): Bailouts-The New Nuclear Terrorism (PDF Download)

Tyson Slocum, Public Citizen: Nuclear Power: Otherwise Known as the Sex Pistols (No Future) (PDF Download)
Update
March 7, 2017

Fearing journalism’s nuclear meltdown

Update
February 24, 2017

NIRS’s Tim Judson presents on the importance of Stopping the Millstone Nuclear Bailout

(more…)

Update
February 24, 2017

Testimony of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service Before the Connecticut General Assembly – Energy and Technology Committee

(more…)

Update
November 2, 2016

Too Big to Bailout: The Economic Costs of a National Nuclear Power Subsidy

(more…)

Update
April 23, 2016

NIRS and AGREE submit extensive comments to New York Public Service Commission that show how New York can meet its 2030 carbon emissions goals without nuclear (and thus without nuclear subsidies).

(more…)

Update
October 22, 2015

Replacing FitzPatrick: How the Closure of a Nuclear Reactor Can Reduce Greenhouse Gasses and Radioactive Waste, while Creating Jobs and Supporting the Local Community

(more…)

Update
October 22, 2015

NIRS/AGREE analysis finds FitzPatrick reactor can be replaced with clean & renewable energy at a lower cost. Press release; full analysis

Update
May 27, 2015

NIRS brief to D.C. Public Service Commission against proposed Exelon takeover of Pepco. Briefs in opposition to takeover by GRID 2.0 and DC SUN.

Link

December 11, 2018
Media Advisory: 12 December 2018 at 6pm CET Contacts: Kerstin Rudek, Don’t Nuke the Climate +49 1590 21 54 831, kerstin.rudek@gmx.de Makoma Lekalakala, Earthlife Africa, +27 82 682 9177, makoma@earthlife.org.za Ayumi Fukakusa, Friends of the Earth-Japan, fukakusa@foejapan.org Leona Morgan, Diné No Nukes, +1 505 879 8547, leona.morgan.nm@gmail.com Nuclear Power Violates Climate Justice, Human…

Read the release
December 07, 2018
For Immediate Release: 7 December 2018 Contact: Tim Judson, NIRS +1 212-729-1169, timj@nirs.org Makoma Lekalakala, Earthlife Africa +27 82 682 9177, makoma@earthlife.org.za Kerstin Rudek, Don’t Nuke the Climate Coalition +49 159 02154831, kerstin.rudek@gmx.de No Nuclear Road to Paris New report concludes nuclear power “will play no meaningful role” in averting catastrophic warming Renewable energy pathways…

Read the release
November 28, 2018
Today, NIRS published a white paper on strategies states can use to manage shutdowns of nuclear reactors responsibly and cost-effectively. Nuclear Reactor Closures: Practical, Cost-Effective Solutions for Communities and the Climate, takes lessons learned from reactor closures and state subsidy programs. It proposes proactive, cost-effective ways for states to plan for shutdowns, while protecting workers…

Read the release
November 26, 2018
Media Advisory – November 28, 2018 at 11am EST Experts Propose New Process for Nuclear Reactor Retirements to Protect Ratepayers, Local Communities, and the Climate Nuclear Subsidy/Bailout Programs are Costing Consumers Billions of Dollars, Failing to Protect Workers and Communities Lessons Learned from States Show Faster, Cost-Effective Approach to Reactor Closures is Needed to Advance…

Read the release
August 21, 2018
Jacksonville Electric Authority, a municipal utility company in Florida, is demanding that the Vogtle 3 and 4 reactors be canceled, after this month’s $2.3 billion cost increase, or it will sue to get out of the project, which now is over five years behind schedule and set to cost over $27 billion. According to JEA,…

Read the release
August 21, 2018
Across the country, nuclear plant owners are insisting states and the federal government approve billion-dollar subsidies to bail them out — even if they’re profitable. In a new op-ed in the Gotham Gazette, NIRS explains what’s at stake in our law suit overturn the first and largest bailout for dirty, old, dangerous reactors in New…

Read the release