MADISON, WI (WTAQ) – A public hearing was to begin Wednesday morning on another effort to end Wisconsin’s three-decade-old moratorium on building nuclear power plants.
The Assembly Energy and Utilities Committee planned to hear testimony on a bill from Waupaca Republican Kevin Peterson.
GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he believes nuclear power is in line with President Obama’s effort to cut carbon emissions.
Assembly Democratic Minority Leader Peter Barca says the issue is worth discussing, but any plan must include the safe disposal of nuclear waste.
Under the current moratorium, no new nuclear plants are allowed unless there’s a federal storage site for waste, and there’s proof that a facility would not burden electric rate-payers.
Both parties have tried but failed to end the nuclear moratorium in the past.
The state’s only operating nuclear plant is Point Beach at Two Rivers.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
