Guests Alan Medsker and Angelica Oung in dailyherald: Misguided fears of 'waste' are inhibiting chances to use nuclear power to fight climate change.
We'd like to congratulate the Daily Herald on the recent timely and level-headed editorial in support of nuclear power as a way of helping Illinois decarbonize, gain energy security and create good-paying jobs. However, we'd like to take exception to the characterization of nuclear waste as"a significant problem."
This isn't science fiction; it's something that is already done in France, Russia and Japan. The reason why we don't do it in the U.S. right now is that with uranium currently so inexpensive, fuel recycling isn't cost-effective. So in the meantime, this material is carefully tracked and stored on-site at nuclear power plants in big steel and concrete casks designed to keep the residual radiation in and keep the elements out.
Zion was prematurely shuttered in 1998. Had we kept it running, it could have provided all the power to replace the Waukegan coal plant next door , in addition to keeping lots of great jobs in the community and increasing the tax base. We are on the verge of passing SB 76, the repeal of the nuclear construction moratorium. As the editorial correctly pointed out, this important issue has brought together Republicans and Democrats in our state out of an urgency to respond to the climate crisis. It's about time. We encourage citizens to tell their state representatives to ask their leadership to allow SB 76 to be called and voted on before the end of the Spring session.
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