A possible return to atomic power??? WTH??? 🤬 🤬 🤬 [View all]

[a kennedy]

Six years after Wisconsin lifted a ban on nuclear power plant construction, a La Crosse utility company that operated the state’s first nuclear plant is exploring a return to atomic power.

Dairyland Power Cooperative has agreed with NuScale Power to explore using the company’s small-scale nuclear generating technology as a carbon-free power source for about half a million customers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.

This agreement provides Dairyland an opportunity to explore this technology and evaluate whether it might be a viable long-term alternative to provide our members with safe, reliable and cost-effective electricity in a lower-carbon future,” said Dairyland CEO Brent Ridge.

Maintaining reliability while cutting the coal-heavy utility’s greenhouse gas emissions will require “out of the box” thinking, said John Carr, vice president for strategic growth.

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