Exelon bill designed to bailout failing nuclear plants, transfer wealth, kill renewables, NEIS testifies SPRINGFIELD, May 16, 2016— Nuclear Energy Information Service of Chicago testified today before the Illinois State Senate […]
NRC regulators cited for “major misses,” lack of safety culture CHICAGO—All but three of Exelon’s 11 operating reactors in Illinois are reported as having “near misses” events – events that […]
OPPORTUNITIES MISSED, LESSONS NOT LEARNED The 5th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster seems an apt time to recall the advice of philosopher and essayist George Santayana, who warned: “Those […]
NEIS hosted the first training session of the newly formed Radiation Monitoring Project (RMP) in Chicago on October 30th. Nuclear researcher Lucas Hixson of Enformable Environmental Services of Michigan conducted […]
Extremely Dangerous and Radioactive Nuclear Waste Shipments CHICAGO – Thousands of nuclear waste shipments would cross through Illinois, if Congressional plans for the country’s first nuclear waste repository in Nevada […]
Rejection a huge defeat for Exelon, and loss of a regulated market to abuse CHICAGO—Exelon Corporation was handed a stunning defeat today when the Washington, D.C. Public Services Commission (PSC) […]
Chicago, IL.—The “Radiation Monitoring Project”, a national initiative to establish monitoring of radioactivity in communities contaminated by the nuclear fuel chain, received over half its $15,000 fundraising goal in a […]
PART 2: “NUCLEAR: IT ISN’T CLEAN, GREEN OR RENEWABLE” CHICAGO- [NOTE: With the Illinois Legislative session scheduled to end May 31st, and the Legislature soon to vote on the future […]
PART 1: “IS IT REALLY THE JOBS, STUPID?” CHICAGO-– [NOTE: With 20 days left for the Illinois Legislature to decide the future direction of Illinois energy services, NEIS is initiating […]
TESLA REVOLUTIONARY NEW BATTERY SINKS EXELON’S BOGUS ARGUMENTS, FORCES LEGISLATURE TO CHOOSE THE FUTURE OVER THE PAST CHICAGO-– One Thursday April 30, Elon Musk of the TESLA Corporation announced the […]
