Trump Team’s Asking for Ways to Keep Nuclear Power Alive
- Nuclear facing increasing competition from gas, renewables
- Trump team asked Energy Department for ways to help nuclear
High Energy: Trump Focuses on Nuclear Power
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President-elect Donald Trump’s advisers are looking at ways in which the U.S. government could help nuclear power generators being forced out of the electricity market by cheaper natural gas and renewable resources.
In a document obtained by Bloomberg, Trump’s transition team asked the Energy Department how it can help keep nuclear reactors “operating as part of the nation’s infrastructure” and what it could do to prevent the shutdown of plants. Advisers also asked the agency whether there were statutory restrictions in resuming work on Yucca Mountain, a proposed federal depository for nuclear waste in Nevada that was abandoned by the Obama administration.