Illinois may lift historic ban on building nuclear power plants as state continues transition from coal and gas
who has since left office and pleaded not guilty to bribery and racketeering charges and is set to stand trial next year.
For organized labor, though, removing the prohibition offers a signal the state is open to maintaining its use of a power source that offers a greater number of well-paying, steady union jobs than the renewable energy industry, said Pat Devaney, secretary-treasurer of the Illinois AFL-CIO.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded nearly $2 billion to TerraPower, a company founded by Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates, for a demonstration project in Wyoming that is seeking to retrofit a coal plant that’s scheduled to go offline in the coming years. It’s one of a small number of demonstration projects receiving federal support through President Joe Biden administration’s bipartisan infrastructure law.
The result is “a kiloton of nuclear materials sitting on the shoreline of Lake Michigan with no place for these materials to go,” Mason said.
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