Santee Cooper, the state-owned utility, is notifying customers that it wants to raise its rates by more than 9 percent over the next several years, in part to cover “costs associated with nuclear construction.” Thenerve.org
President Trump has a different view of climate change than the previous administration. His decision to disassociate the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords has received the lion’s share of recent publicity in this regard. Now the President’s March 28th Executive Order (EO) could harm the U.S. nuclear power industry (although we doubt that was his intent). Oilprice.com
A whistleblower is making some of the same complaints against the Obama administration over its record of providing congressionally mandated payouts to nuclear workers as Barack Obama did about the George W. Bush administration's. freebeacon.com
On July 7th the United Nations General Assembly approved a historic treaty banning nuclear weapons by a vote of 122 yea, 1 Nay, 1 abstention. This treaty will enter into force 90 days after 50 nations have ratified the document. The nine nuclear armed nations (plus the nations covered by nuclear weapon alliances) boycotted these negotiations and now claim it does not apply to them. Under Article 6 of this Treaty, nations (as well as non-state actors) are prohibited from developing, testing, producing, manufacturing, acquiring, possessing, stockpiling, transferring, deploying, stationing, using or threatening to use nuclear weapons under any circumstances. Azdailysun.com
