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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” […]

Image of Plant Vogtle courtesy of High & Low Flyer (c) 2024 This opinion editorial by former Plant Vogtle Construction Monitor Don Grace was originally published on November 13, 2025 in Crain’s New York, available here. Just over a year ago, Georgia completed building two new reactors at Plant Vogtle, making Georgia the first  state […]

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 […]

This opinion editorial by Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps was first published in The Hill on October 6, 2025. Access the article here. When President Trump and Keir Starmer, prime minister of the United Kingdom, signed a deal to rapidly expand nuclear power in the U.K., nuclear stock prices soared to record highs. But the boom ignores the overwhelming evidence […]

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 […]