The fight against the $7.6 billion New York nuclear bailout isn’t over. Not by a long shot. NIRS and a coalition of New York groups are working to overturn it, and put the state on the path to nuclear-free, carbon-free renewable energy. New Yorkers are paying $40 million every month to subsidize nuclear power –…
Environment ministers from Germany, Austria, and Luxembourg push for end to EU support for nuclear energy
Trump Wants to Bail Out Coal and Nuclear Power. Here’s Why That Will Be Hard.
CONTACTS: Tim Judson, Executive Director 301-270-6477 / timj@nirs.org Mary Olson, Lead Intervenor 828-242-5621(cell) maryo@nirs.org Today US Nuclear Regulatory Commission announces Termination of Levy County Units 1 & 2 Combined Nuclear Construction and Operating Licenses at request of site owner, Duke Energy Ten years ago Duke (then, Progress Energy) began the idea…
This year, the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) will celebrate 40 years of tireless nuclear-free, carbon-free advocacy. When I joined NIRS in 2016, my staff position as Energy Democracy Specialist was a new venture for the organization. Yet the commitment to democratic decision-making, ownership and control of decentralized energy resources has been at the…
Trump Budget Backs Nuclear, Coal; Cuts Funding for Renewables
Challenge to N.Y. Nuclear Subsidies Will Go to Trial
NEWS RELEASE For immediate release Source: Hudson River Sloop Clearwater www.clearwater.org Contact: Stephen Kent skent@kentcom.com 914-589-5988 [Albany, NY – January 23, 2018] Two weeks after the Federal Energy Commission rejected a Department of Energy proposal for federal subsidies to prop up uncompetitive nuclear plants , the New York State Supreme Court in Albany County…
Uranium Miners Pushed Hard for a Comeback. They Got Their Wish.
The nuclear power industry and its political backers could not afford to let the Vogtle nuclear project collapse so soon after its twin in South Carolina (the Summer 2 and 3 reactors). It’s hard to overestimate how desperate the U.S. nuclear industry is to keep Vogtle construction going. Rightly or wrongly (more likely the latter),…