Nuclear Power

Radiation-emitting drugs, or radiopharmaceuticals, are increasingly used to target and kill cancer cells with positive results for patients. In July, during an appearance on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “The Morning Show,” the 2023 crowned Miss America Grace Stanke said her father’s cancer treatment with nuclear medicine had in part inspired her to study nuclear engineering. “He…

A University of Wisconsin-Madison student from Wausau will be the first nuclear engineer to compete in the Miss America contest Dec. 15. Grace Stanke, who was crowned Miss Wisconsin in June, is using her platform to advocate for nuclear energy while showing women they can succeed in male-dominated industries. Stanke’s interest in engineering is familial.…

A new facility in Beloit will help Wisconsin increase domestic supply of a critical isotope for the health care industry. NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes recently finished construction and equipment installation at a new facility in Beloit to produce the medical radioisotope molybdenum-99. NorthStar will produce the isotope without using highly enriched uranium, reducing global nuclear proliferation…

Wisconsin earned a grade of C on the 2020 Report Card for Wisconsin Infrastructure, scoring highest in energy and waste. Poor scores in transit and roads pulled down its grade-point average, according to the report card written by more than 50 civil engineer volunteers across the state who awarded grades based on eight specific factors.…

Setting aside the ambitious Green New Deal and its goal of achieving 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, Congressional Democrats are sectioning off portions of that resolution to deliver more moderate measures that might find greater support. But largely missing from these proposals and the Green New Deal itself is nuclear power. Critics of nuclear…

Wisconsin’s energy production is in line with national trends that show declining use of fossil fuel plants, in particular coal-fired plants. A recent report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration found nearly all utility-scale power plants in the United States that have been retired over the past decade were powered by fossil fuels. Forty-seven percent…

A Florida-based company is planning to build Wisconsin’s largest solar project in Two Rivers. Florida-based NextEra Energy Resources will build and operate the 100-megawatt Point Beach Solar Energy Center neighboring the Point Beach Nuclear Plant, also owned by the Florida company. The project could create between 150 and 200 construction jobs and open in 2021,…

Five years after an earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima power plant in Japan causing the world’s most recent nuclear disaster, officials with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission continue to recommend that roughly 100 U.S. nuclear plants do more to protect against accidents on a similar scale. In Wisconsin, critics and proponents of nuclear power…

A federal agency has approved a transfer of the license for the former nuclear power plant near La Crosse. The license is going from Dairyland Power Cooperative to a radioactive waste disposal firm. The boiling water reactor at the power plant at Genoa shut down 29 years ago, but cleanup of the plant, known as…

The state Assembly could soon pass a bill to repeal Wisconsin’s moratorium on new nuclear power plants, but the plan’s future is murky in the state Senate. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said he wants the full Assembly to pass the bill in January. He said federal regulations are making coal-fired power more expensive so Wisconsin…