“FIRST GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT; THEN YOU CAN DISTORT THEM AS MUCH AS YOU WANT,” – Mark Twain By David Kraft, Director Nuclear Energy Information Service, Chicago As a critical component of advancing the nuclear power juggernaut on an ill-informed public, for several years now pro-nuclear cheerleaders have been working feverishly to get state legislatures […]
By The Nuclear Skeptic New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s desire to build 5GW of new nuclear power in order to keep New York’s electric bills affordable and meet future energy demand has one pesky problem: the numbers simply don’t add up. That’s the overarching conclusion of a new report authored by the University of Pennsylvania’s […]
Dr. Joe Romm, January 2026. New York’s Nuclear Anti-Affordability Fiasco: Why the State’s Deeply Flawed Energy Plan Would Explode Electricity Rates. Research Report, Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media.
The full article by Karl Grossman and Harvey Wasserman, originally published on December 24, 2025 in CounterPunch, is available here. The Trump family is now directly investing in atomic energy. Its money-losing Truth Social company has become a part owner of a major fusion nuclear power project. Among much more, the investments mean the Trump family stands […]
By Lexi Tuddenham, Executive Director at HEAL Utah In November 2023, the NuScale/Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) project collapsed due to cost overruns that would have saddled subscribers with untenable energy costs for untold decades to come. The NuScale project, dubbed by its creators the “Carbon Free Power Project” […]
Small Modular Reactors, Carbon Capture: The wrong resources for Colorado’s energy transition was published in October 2025 by David Schlissel and Dennis Wamsted with the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). Find the November 6, 2025 webinar recording below, David Schlissel’s powerpoint on Small Modular Reactors here, and Dennis Wamsted’s powerpoint on natural gas with carbon […]
By Kim Scott The story of Plant Vogtle’s two new nuclear reactors in Georgia is not a triumph of a “nuclear renaissance”; it’s a cautionary tale written in soaring electric bills and a growing political fallout. The people of Georgia are paying the price, literally, as their utility bills have skyrocketed by over 40% – […]
This blog was originally published by Nuclear Information Resource Service (NIRS) on October 30, 2025. View it in full here. Shared with permission. On Tuesday, the White House announced an $80 billion deal with Westinghouse to finance construction of eight large new reactors in the U.S. There is not enough in the way of actual details about […]
The following is an excerpt from an extensive article published recently by the CATO Institute and written by Steve Thomas, Emeritus Professor, Energy Policy, Business School, University of Greenwich and editor-in-chief of Energy Policy. Despite a major public relations push in the media and with policymakers for new nuclear, the anticipated nuclear revival will not happen […]
Nuclear generation is expensive and slow to develop. Claims that past failures won’t recur have convinced politicians to socialize investments rejected by private capital markets. By Amory B. Lovins This opinion editorial was first published in Utility Dive on September 5, 2025. Find it here. Amory B. Lovins teaches engineering at Stanford, and is cofounder […]
