Lawmakers set to consider nuclear energy on final day of veto session
No movement on efforts to extend scholarship tax credit, allow legislative staff to unionize.
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No movement on efforts to extend scholarship tax credit, allow legislative staff to unionize.
Proponents say the plan endorsed Wednesday will ensure the state can meet its carbon-free power production promise by 2045.
The bill earned more votes than the three-fifths majority needed to override
General Assembly also approved measure lifting ban on new nuclear construction.
Statewide building code, requirement that retailers accept cash also advancing through legislature.
Small but meaningful amounts of electricity — nearly enough to run a small campus, a hospital or a military complex, for example — will pulse from a new generation of micronuclear reactors. Now, some universities are taking interest, including the University of Illinois.
CHAMPAIGN — Proponents of nuclear power in Illinois are rallying together in hopes of preventing the decommissioning of two nuclear power plants — the Byron
