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After the Servers Go Dark

Guest commentary in the Daily Yonder advising those who are considering hosting data centers to learn from the experiences of nuclear power host communities. 

Our summary report: How Nuclear Power Plant Decommissioning Can Inform the Energy Transition

Summary of lessons learned from our three-years worth of work with the  U.S. Economic Development Administration.

Check out our recent publication in The Electricity Journal

New Life at Old Plants: Exploring Solar Power Development at Former Nuclear Power Plant Sites in the United States

Achieving Better Outcomes Through Collaboration

The Nuclear Decommissioning Collaborative is a resource for decommissioning best practices and information. We are a non-partisan non-profit dedicated to providing decommissioning stakeholders with accurate and objective information to promote effective nuclear plant decommissioning and community revitalization.

Next Steps for Decommissioned Plants

Nuclear power plants can pump millions of dollars into local economies, but with more than 20 plants scheduled to close, how will these largely rural communities cope with this loss of revenue? We took a look at this issue in a recent article for The Daily Yonder.

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

December 2, 2019

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, […]

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

December 1, 2019

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 […]

The “Just Right CAB”

November 26, 2019

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 […]

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