Nuclear Non-Profit, Union Urge Biden Admin to Expand Nuclear Energy

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The federal government needs to do more than just prop up existing nuclear reactors to achieve its climate goals, executives of a major nuclear non-profit and a labor union said in an op-ed this week. Though the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) both “welcome” the Joe Biden administration’s trillion-dollar infrastructure bill that provides roughly $6 billion in aid to struggling nuclear plants, the White House must also expand the country’s nuclear footprint, said ANS president Steven Nesbit and IBEW president Lonnie Stephenson in an op-ed published by the non-profit Wednesday.