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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June 25, 2019The hard sell without supporting facts behind HB 6 should lead to a legislative “No”
Norman Robbins of Shaker Heights, OH asks in a letter to the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is FirstEnergy Nuclear scamming Ohioans with its old reactor bailout legislation?
Opponents to Substitute Ohio House Bill 6 (Nuclear Bailout) submit testimony before Ohio Senate Energy & Utilities Committee
See:
Written testimony to Ohio Senate Energy & Utilities Committee prepared by Michael J. Keegan for Don't Waste Michigan - June 19, 2019
and
Beyond Nuclear's Written Public Testimony, re: Sub. H. B. No. 6, Callender, Wilkin, Creates Ohio Clean Air Program, 4th Hearing, Opponent, for Wed., June 19 hearing
Don't Waste Michigan and Beyond Nuclear, represented by legal counsel Terry Lodge of Toledo, were two of the coalition groups that officially intervened, from 2010 to 2016, against Davis-Besse's 2017 to 2037 license extension. The other two coalition groups were the Ohio Green Party, and Citizens Environment Alliance of Southwestern Ontario. Despite the bi-national legal intervention, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) rubber-stamped the 20-year license extension, despite the risks.
For the past several years, FirstEnergy Nuclear has sought bailouts for its Ohio reactors, including both Davis-Besse and Perry. They have thus far been blocked, including by concerted grassroots environmental opposition. But this is their biggest push yet.
"No On HB6!" Events in Ohio
Becca Pollard
Ohio Associate Organizing Representative
Sierra Club, Beyond Coal:
I am tweeting testimony from our Cincinnati People's Hearing and tagging Senator Wilson. If you're on twitter please retweet! I will post a couple more later today.
Ohio Citizen Action is holding a third rally in Medina today at noon.