Thread by @nirsnet

Hey @SecGranholm, nice industry talking points you got there. Let’s break those down🧵

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https://twitter.com/SecGranholm/status/1440784306171908103

If the nuclear power industry is so prosperous, why are they lobbying for over $50 billion in federal subsidies from #BuildBackBetter to keep aging reactors online? There’s no “innovation” in simply bailing out the status quo.

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Let’s talk jobs. Did you know that bailing out existing reactors would not create a single new American job? Nuclear power plants have actually been cutting jobs, despite the big state-level bailout checks they have cashed.

nirs.org/how-nuclear-ba…

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If that $50 billion were spent on other energy programs–renewable energy, energy efficiency, battery storage, grid modernization–it would create over 67,000 new jobs. Now that’s how we #BuildBackBetter

nirs.org/how-nuclear-ba…

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If the $50 billion nuclear bailout isn’t going to American workers, just who is it for?

Hint: Follow the money.

$35 billion of the bailout would go to just three corporations: Exelon, Energy Harbor, and PSEG.

nirs.org/nuclear-power-…

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@SecGranholm, you say “advanced nuclear energy.” We hear speculative, unproven, untested, fictional designs that have no chance of being deployed in time to meet the urgent timeline of decarbonization.

Advanced =/= Better

@UCSUSA

ucsusa.org/resources/adva…

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We can invest in the renewable energy future we need. But, we must not be diverted by false solutions to climate change – costly, speculative distractions such as a carbon tax, carbon capture and storage, geoengineering, and nuclear power.

climatefalsesolutions.org

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"Zero-carbon nuclear energy"? Fact check!

The nuclear fuel chain - uranium mining, milling, processing, enrichment, and long-term rad. waste storage - emits significant greenhouse gases PLUS radioactive hazards and environmental justice impacts.

nirs.org/the-unjustifia…

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Nuclear power has no place in a truly just transition. The @WhiteHouse Environmental Justice Advisory Council agrees: nuclear power harms those on the frontlines of radioactive exposure, contamination, and environmental degradation.

epa.gov/sites/default/…

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None of the $60+ billion to bail out nuclear power will benefit environmental justice communities. Nuclear subsidies will actually increase the harm from uranium extraction and radioactive waste.

EJ is non-negotiable in #BuildBackBetter, @POTUS.

whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-r…

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Good news!

Climate solutions are the same in the long-term, mid-term, and short-term: renewables, efficiency, storage, grid modernization - NOT bailing out old, uneconomical nuclear power plants.

nirs.org/cooperreport/

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@SecGranholm, plus, renewables, efficiency, storage, grid modernization are where @ENERGY has supported the greatest innovation, with actual, real-world results.

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Take Action! We can’t let our leaders sacrifice the climate to false solutions. Tell @POTUS, @VP, and your Reps: “No Nuclear Power in the #BuildBackBetterAct - It’s Time for a Just Transition to 100% Renewable Energy.”

nirs.org/alerts-rss/

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