Bottom line — ever-increasing subsidies cannot solve the nuclear energy industry’s costly flaws, and in this era of climate urgency, funneling more taxpayer dollars to unproven, prototype projects will not yield the immediate climate benefits we need today.
In the early spring of 2021, against the backdrop of extreme weather events and the racial and economic inequities exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, federal, state, and local policymakers renewed their efforts to kick-start clean energy deployment. R
Risks of Rising Costs, Likely Delays, and Increasing Competition Cast Doubt on Long-Running Development Effort
Office of the Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Special Inquiry into concerns that counterfeit, fraudulent, and suspect items (CFSI) are present in most, if not all, U.S. nuclear power plants; the NRC has lowered the oversight standards for CFSI; and the NRC failed to appropriately address allegers’ concerns about CFSI
State by state comparison on local energy actions
This report identifies nine strategies to align utility energy efficiency and net-zero goals. These strategies collectively constitute a climate-forward efficiency roadmap