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Illinois may lift ban on building new nuclear power plants (www.chicagotribune.com)
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What's JB waiting for? We've burned fossil fuels for 40 years since this moratorium was put in place and look where it got us.

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[–] cakeistheanswer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

It's a hurdle out of the way, and I've got some tempered enthusiasm as long as ComEd doesn't touch it.

Unfortunately any construction is going to have a long enough tail the opportunity to grift off this one will outlive JB. Maybe we defy gravity for once in Illinois.