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Nuclear power quite likely to be abandoned for Iowa

Nuclear Power – ‘Off the Table’, Blog for Iowa, February 15, 2012 , Paul Deaton MidAmerican Energy made it clear today that if HF 561, or some form of it, does not become law, nuclear power will be “off the table” in Iowa and the electric utility will deal with it by increasing their use of natural gas to generate electricity as demand increases and coal burning power plants are taken off line.

There was no equivocation on this point by Dean Crist, vice president of regulation for the electric utility.

Crist was on WHO Newsradio with Mark Cooper, senior research fellow for economic analysis at the Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School, Silver Spring, MD. Each had different ideas about HF 561 and what it would or would not do for Iowa rate payers.
It boiled down to answering this question, “does the legislation change the dynamic, or construct for approval of a potential new nuclear reactor in Iowa?” The simple answer is yes, it does..

February 16, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, USA