Illinois lawmakers look to remove barriers to a ban on new large-scale nuclear power plants to meet energy goals and power ...

By all means, Illinois should lift its moratorium on new nuclear plants. But that won’t solve our looming power shortage.

On Tuesday, March 18, a bill advanced out of committee in Springfield that would fully repeal the ban on construction of new ...

In 2024, utility-scale solar and wind were up nationwide, while coal was down, and other major energy sources saw little change.

Coal-fired power plants, long an increasingly money-losing proposition in the U.S., are becoming more valuable now that the ...

From its two nuclear reactors, enough electricity to power more than 1.7 million homes leaves the plant. Lawmakers ...

and efficient nuclear power in the U.S. and beyond.” About The Grainger College of Engineering at U. of I. The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is ...

The U.S. lacks high-quality concrete- and steel-fabrication design skills necessary to manufacture a nuclear power plant, Kochunas said ... who is now an associate professor at the University of ...

In 2023, just before the General Assembly first attempted to lift the ban, the governor said he wanted “to make sure that we’re not just opening this up to nuclear everywhere ...

JB Pritzker vetoed and narrowed a similar plan two years ago when he set limits on the size of new nuclear power plants in Illinois. But the governor appeared open to taking a different tack when ...