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Wednesday, April 25th By Jeffrey Tomich From oil fields to wind turbines to coal mines, size and scale rule the economics of energy. But the nuclear industry is thinking small these days. The latest evidence came last week when Ameren Missouri and Westinghouse Electric Co. announced plans to pursue a $452 million federal subsidy to [...]

By Dale Singer, Beacon staff 8:07 am on Thu, 04.26.12 After years of stalled attempts to build a second large nuclear reactor in Callaway County, Ameren Missouri now wants to change course and install one or more smaller modular reactors on the site. But while the size and the technology may be different, the players and [...]

Stop the fleecing of Progress Energy customers Editorial Tampa Bay Times Sunday, May 6, 2012 Businesses that make big mistakes and force their customers to pay for them can expect a smarter competitor to take away their customers. But Progress Energy is a regulated monopoly, and it announced last week it expects customers to pay [...]

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial: Lots of ‘ifs’ in Missouri’s latest nuclear gambit By the Editorial Board | Posted: Sunday, April 22, 2012 12:15 am The most important sentence spoken or printed about the allegedly “transformational” plan to build small, modular nuclear reactors in Missouri is buried at the bottom of an Ameren Missouri news release. [...]

For Immediate Release, 4/19/2012 RELEASE: MAJOR VICTORY FOR MISSOURI UTILITY CONSUMERS “This is a great day for Missouri and a major victory for Missouri utility consumers. There is a right way and a wrong way to finance construction of new energy resources in our state, and this is the right way. The announcement today helps [...]

CHRIS BLANK | Published: April 18, 2012 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and energy officials are to announce plans Thursday that could include the development of another nuclear reactor in the state. The Democratic governor’s office called the plans significant for energy development and economic growth in Missouri. Nixon and officials from Ameren Missouri [...]

April 18, 2012 JEFFERSON CITY – Ameren Missouri released a statement this evening refuting reports that the company would be announcing a plan to build a new nuclear reactor. According to the release, “recent press reports speculating that Ameren Missouri and Westinghouse Electric Company will be announcing a definitive plan to build a new nuclear [...]

April 18, 2012 (Jefferson City, MO) –  It looks like Ameren Missouri is ready to take the next step in building a second nuclear reactor at its centralMissouri plant. Gov. Jay Nixon’s office this afternoon issued a cryptically worded press release about a news conference Thursday afternoon that will include representatives of Ameren and Westinghouse Electric, the manufacturer of [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo— Gov. Jay Nixon will join senior executives from Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Ameren Missouri on Thursday for a major announcement about energy development and economic growth in Missouri. The announcement could include plans for a second nuclear reactor in the state. St. Louis-based Ameren Missouri operates Missouri’s only nuclear power plant, located in Callaway County about [...]

Stop the nuclear industry welfare programme After 60 years, the taxpayer should not continue to subsidise multibillion-dollar corporations in the nuclear energy sector Bernie Sanders and Ryan Alexander guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 April 2012 09.00 EDT The US is facing a $15 trillion national debt, and there is no shortage of opinions about how to move toward deficit [...]