UPDATE: 4/9/22 The IAEA: “You had one job, only one job. And…” CNN has made it to Chernobyl before the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA. The IAEA has expressed only an intense sense of urgency regarding getting into the Chernobyl site and the exclusion zone and yet they are not there but CNN is. The […]
With the nuclear reactor crisis emerging in Ukraine as a backdrop, a bill – HB 5589 — has been introduced in the Illinois Legislature that would remove a decades-old moratorium on constructing new nuclear reactors in Illinois.
2022 has been quite a year so far. No sooner do we begin recovering from the gut-punching reminder of “Don’t Look Up!” that we have a potentially civilization ending Climate Code Red to contend with, and fast, when along comes – Russia.
UKRAINE NUCLEAR UPDATE — 3/6/2022, 9 pm (CST) Gail Snyder, NEIS Board President Ukraine has 4 sites with a total of 15 operational reactors, Chernobyl is also a nuclear site of concern because of the nuclear waste stored on site as well as the contaminated accident site.
Ukraine Nuclear update: 10 pm, Thursday, March 3, 2022 Like many of you we are watching the situation in Ukraine with the nuclear power plants unfold as if our worst nightmare is coming true. By Gail Snyder, NEIS Board President CHERNOBYL The Chernobyl nuclear facility is now occupied by the Russians and did experience a large […]
“Public Official A” — the former Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan — has (finally) been indicted under the charges of racketeering, relating to the ComEd lobbying scandal of 2020. It ultimately led to Madigan leaving his post in the Illinois legislature after serving as House Speaker for 36 years. The scandal resulted in […]
ILLINOIS ENERGY TRANSFORMATION #29: When Nuclear Power Meets War Feb. 24, 2022 As I write this, the World is greeted with the news that Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The feeling in my stomach is the same as I had when I watched the Fukushima reactors in Japan explode in early […]
ILLINOIS ENERGY TRANSFORMATION #28: Getting Our Money’s Worth with Nuclear Power? Caveat Emptor! Feb. 12, 2022 The recent $694 million bailout of 6 Constellation (nee Exelon) nuclear reactors in Illinois was not good news for ratepayers, Illinois or a renewable energy future. It was made recently worse by the announcement by Constellation Energy (the Exelon […]
Oppose HB5589, a bill that repeals Illinois nuclear reactor construction moratorium HB5589 was introduced on January 28 by Rep. Mark L. Walker (D, 53rd District) of Arlington Heights. The bill in essence repeals a provision of the Public Utilities Act that currently prohibits construction of any new nuclear power reactor in Illinois UNTIIL the Federal […]
ILLINOIS ENERGY TRANSFORMATION #26: BEWARE THE POST-COP-26 NUCLEAR HUCKSTERS Nov. 22, 2021 COP-26 and its aftermath have seen a dramatic rise in nuclear power being marketed as a “solution” needed to fight climate disruption. A “devils in the details” analysis of these claims and a candid review of the history of nuclear power reveal them […]
