About two years ago, on August 11, 2023, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker vetoed S.B. 76, a bill that would have lifted the state’s moratorium on new nuclear power plant construction. It was a reversal on his decidedly pronuclear stance....
Now, it seems that Pritzker has changed tack. On August 13, in response to a question on managing energy costs, he said, “We in Illinois can do something very important; we can get rid of the moratorium on nuclear, which has been in place for decades now. We already got rid of it on small modular nuclear. We can do that on large nuclear. It’s going to be an important part of the transition to renewable energy everywhere and to our 2050 goal of clean energy.”
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