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Quote from a member of the state legislature pushing for this bill. Be sure to call your state legislature to express your feelings: "'How much will it cost? 'There’ll be some great shock,'" Albrecht said about the price...there are SMRs that have been developed, small modular reactors. 'They can be put on the back of a truck as big as this room and placed somewhere.'”
"'they failed to grasp and account for the very severe dangers associated with it,' Mike Maxwell, who identified himself as a former employee of a nuclear power producer, said. 'Nuclear energy is powerful; it can also be incredibly dangerous to all the living things on this planet.'"
This documentary discusses the effects of testing nuclear weapons on populations in Utah.
Some SMRs require weapons grade uranium for SMRs which can be dangerous if it gets into the hands of bad actors.
"[T]he remnants of past nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site continue to affect those living downwind...much of the toxic fallout impacting communities in Utah..the documentary poses alarming evidence of the cancer-causing materials that remain. 'There are cancer clusters, dozens of people with the same type of cancer in small areas downwind...'"
"Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is exploring nuclear power as a potential energy source for its artificial intelligence projects, aiming to bring reactors online by the early 2030s. The company joins other tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in banking on nuclear-powered AI initiatives."
"Microsoft has announced plans to purchase all electricity from the Three Mile Island reactor in Pennsylvania, which is reopening after being the site of the worst nuclear plant accident in U.S. history. This electricity will power Microsoft's data centers, AI efforts, and other infrastructure....nuclear waste management is a concern, with waste currently stored at more than 70 sites across 35 states until Congress determines a permanent disposal solution."
This article shows how even after assurances of safety measures a power plant (in this case not nuclear) endangered the population of the town.
"The $8 million fire suppression system turned into 'a fire acceleration system....No matter how much you pay for these bells and whistles, if they don’t go off, they’re worthless.' ..A subsequent lawsuit filed against the company by several residents alleges that the fire may have released a slew of potentially hazardous chemicals found in lithium batteries, including hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen chloride, and hydrogen cyanide, among others, even as a middle school sits a mile down the road from the facility....Thousands of fish turned up dead in a nearby river."
This article shows how even after assurances of safety measures a power plant (in this case not nuclear) endangered the population of the town.
"...nearly two weeks after an explosion and fire at a battery recycling facility....the fire at Critical Mineral Recovery is now under control."
NRC is preventing the nomination of safety conscious leaders.
"Now, a majority bipartisan Congress have declared that a Generation IV of new reactors and SMRs need to be steamrolled with the 'Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy Act of 2024,' or ADVANCE Nuclear Act. The ADVANCE Act itself has established that in the first year, the NRC Mission Statement will be redirected from its mandate to protect public safety and the environment to its new mission to 'promote the societal benefits of nuclear power.'..This includes discouraging the nomination and appointment of NRC Commissioner candidates branded by industry champions as 'zealots' for safety...NuScale has yet to receive a design certification from the NRC for the uprated design... the risks, no matter how remote, of nuclear power are unforgiving. The radiological consequences of a nuclear accident, in terms of the long-term contamination of land, air and water, long term loss of agriculture production, long-term dislocation of potentially very large populations and accompanied by indefinite economic losses of large commercial and industrial sectors, and prompt and long term deleterious impacts on biological health with potential intergenerational consequences...radiation, even at the lowest levels, is dangerous. This is true for waste, too, which remains radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years and cannot currently be safely managed in the longer term, meaning it could contaminate the biosphere at some point...The claim that SMRs can more reliably and at competitive cost deliver scalable power has not been proven or demonstrated given its practically non-existent commercial operating history. "
"...all U.S. property and liability insurance policies exclude nuclear accidents. Claims can include any incident (including those caused by theft or sabotage) in transporting nuclear fuel to a reactor site; storing nuclear fuel or waste at a site; during operation of a reactor, including the discharge of radioactive effluent; and transporting irradiated nuclear fuel and nuclear waste from the reactor."
"Insurance under Price-Anderson covers bodily injury, sickness, disease or resulting death, property damage and loss, including reasonable living expenses for evacuated individuals. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 extended the Price-Anderson Act to Dec. 31, 2025."
"[S]ome analysts worry that bad actors could co-opt certain SMR designs to create weapons-grade plutonium."
"Just like their larger counterparts, SMRs will produce nuclear waste. (According to one recent Stanford and University of British Columbia study, SMRs yield more nuclear waste than even conventional nuclear plants.)"
"The most highly radioactive waste, primarily spent fuel, must be isolated in deep-mined geologic repositories for hundreds of thousands of years . . ."
"Most spent nuclear fuel is stored in specially designed pools at reactor sites around the country, using dry cask storage systems, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
"Their findings further strengthen the case against more funding for NuScale – yet another nuclear boondoggle that will fleece American taxpayers."
"Earlier projects saw billions of dollars of construction-related canceled plants and enormous cost overruns that were dumped on ratepayers and taxpayers. Then a series of bailouts followed to keep uneconomic plants online."
"The levelized cost of electricity for the now-cancelled NuScale project was estimated at around $119 per megawatt-hour (without federal subsidies), whereas land-based wind and utility-scale solar now cost below $40/MWh."
"Therefore, entities that hope to acquire SMRs, like data centers that lack the necessary waste infrastructure, will have to safely manage the storage of significant quantities of spent nuclear fuel on site for the long term, just like any other nuclear power plant does."
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