Jim Hamilton

Jim Hamilton is the Executive Director of The Nuclear Decommissioning Collaborative. Jim has over twenty-years of experience managing the entire life-cycle (siting, design, permitting, construction, closure, decommissioning, remediation and redevelopment) of large-scale manufacturing, energy and infrastructure facilities throughout North, Central and South America.

Permanent Shutdown of Wolseong Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 Confirmed

/ International, News

Permanent Shutdown of Wolseong Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 Confirmed The permanent shutdown of Wolseong Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province has been confirmed. Nuclear power experts criticized that the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission made a hasty conclusion to close down the reactor in compliance of the government’s nuclear phase-out  

Permanent Shutdown of Wolseong Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 Confirmed Read More

Feds, Developers Seek Second Life for Former Nuclear Plants — Bloomberg Environment

/ News, Planning & Economic Development

Steam rises out of the nuclear plant on Three Mile Island nuclear plant on March 26, 2019. The plant closed in September, 40 years after it was the site of a partial meltdown. Photographer: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Sylvia Carignan, Reporter — Dec. 12, 2019, 5:01 PM Decommissioned nuclear power plants are an untapped but

Feds, Developers Seek Second Life for Former Nuclear Plants — Bloomberg Environment Read More

Social transition and why it matters in coal mine closure

/ News, Planning & Economic Development

Social transition and why it matters in coal mine closure On one level, it’s easy to call for an immediate end to coal mining. The industry is notoriously harmful for the environment, with the International Energy Agency reporting that coal-fired power plants were responsible for 30% of global carbon dioxide emissions in 2018, and emissions

Social transition and why it matters in coal mine closure Read More

Plymouth keeps unified tax rate. Rate goes down, taxes go up.

/ News, Planning & Economic Development /

Plymouth keeps unified tax rate. Rate goes down, taxes go up. Plymouth’s tax rate is going down, but values and taxes are increasing. PLYMOUTH – The tax rate has gone down, but values and taxes are increasing. The average residential tax bill for Fiscal Year 2020, which begins July 1, will increase approximately $240, according

Plymouth keeps unified tax rate. Rate goes down, taxes go up. Read More

FirstEnergy Solutions gets OK to transfer nuclear licenses

/ News, Planning & Economic Development, Plant News / , ,

FirstEnergy Solutions gets OK to transfer nuclear licenses It looks like the next incarnation of FirstEnergy Solutions (FES) will have licenses to operate the Davis-Besse, Perry and, for now at least, the Beaver Valley nuclear plants, once the company exits its Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company will operate under a new name, Energy Harbor, while

FirstEnergy Solutions gets OK to transfer nuclear licenses Read More

People wade in the ocean. A nuclear power station can be seen in the background.

Hello Brownfields, Let Me Introduce You to Former Nuclear Power Plants

/ Blog, News

The Setting Nuclear power plants are curious animals. They hum along anonymously for decades, generating electrons, tax revenues and nuclear waste. They employ several hundred highly paid, skilled workers and contractors, and are a sizeable contributor to local economies. Annual economic impacts measure in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Where it gets interesting, however,

Hello Brownfields, Let Me Introduce You to Former Nuclear Power Plants Read More

Five years after shutdown, Windham County still feels loss of Vermont Yankee

/ News, Planning & Economic Development, Plant News /

Five years after shutdown, Windham County still feels loss of Vermont Yankee From a distance, a casual observer might not realize much has changed at Vermont Yankee, the nuclear plant situated along the Connecticut River in the southeastern corner of Vermont.Next month marks the five-year anniversary of the shutdown of the state’s lone nuclear power

Five years after shutdown, Windham County still feels loss of Vermont Yankee Read More

The “Just Right CAB”

/ Blog, News

NRC Public Comment Period Friday, December the 6th marks the end of NRC’s public comment period exploring the role of Community Advisory Boards (CABs) and the decommissioning of commercial nuclear power plants. The Commission will then distill and synthesize comments and deliver, by July 2020, a report to Congress on best practices and lessons learned

The “Just Right CAB” Read More

(802) 345-7044

info@decommissioningcollaborative.org

Connect

Blog

Contact

Download our

free report

Discover tools and information for improving project outcomes and
catalyzing economic recovery

Scroll to Top