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Nuclear Costs

Estimates for new reactor construction costs continue to sky-rocket. Conservative estimates range between $6 and $12 billion per reactor but Standard & Poor's predicts a continued rise. The nuclear power industry is lobbying for heavy federal subsidization including unlimited loan guarantees but the Congressional Budget Office predicts the risk of default will be well over 50 percent, leaving taxpayers to foot the bill. Beyond Nuclear opposes taxpayer and ratepayer subsidies for the nuclear energy industry.

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Entries from September 1, 2019 - September 30, 2019

Tuesday
Sep242019

Akron Beacon-Journal: Dark-money campaigns have no place in our democracy

https://www.ohio.com/opinion/20190923/dark-money-campaigns-have-no-place-in-our-democracy

Re: shenanigans swirling in Ohio to block a ballot initiative challenging $1.1 billion in old coal and nuclear power plant bailouts -- themselves passed by the OH state legislature via the corrupting corporate influence of FirstEnergy, and other nuclear industry front groups, campaign contributions, lobbying, ad campaigns, etc.

Monday
Sep232019

Ohio's Nuclear Bailout Is Inspiring An Unprecedented Campaign. But Why Now?

Monday
Sep232019

Who’s behind the Chinese conspiracy ads against Ohio’s nuclear referendum?

Friday
Sep202019

Ohio good-government groups want to shed light on ‘dark money:’ Capitol Letter

Let there be light: Good-government advocates on Thursday called on state leaders to toughen Ohio’s campaign finance laws to counteract the proliferation of “dark money” campaign spending, cleveland.com’s Andrew Tobias reports. Leaders with the League of Women Voters of Ohio and Common Cause Ohio said they believe the campaign groups surrounding House Bill 6, the nuclear bailout law, would be better behaved if they were forced to disclose their donors.

As reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer's "Rotunda Rumblings."

Thursday
Sep192019

Voters need to know who's behind nuclear campaign, groups argue