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Karen Hadden, director of the Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) Coalition, speaks as (from left) as Alice Canestaro-Garcia, Meredith McGuire, Margaret Day, Kerstin Rudek, and Yaneth Flores stand beside her.

Proposal to Bring Nuclear Waste to Texas Is Back on the Table

by Brendan Gibbons September 30, 2018November 1, 2018

A plan to bring highly radioactive waste to West Texas has restarted, and anti-nuclear activists are back at work trying to get it killed for good.

The South Texas Project (STP) has the lowest production cost reported by nuclear power plants nationwide, at 1.356 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2006. STPS’s combined operating, maintenance and fuel expenses were the lowest among plants that report those costs to federal regulators. Photo courtesy of Texas Comptroller.

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Carbon Dating: Building the 21st Century Energy Economy

by Robert Rivard June 19, 2013October 7, 2016