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25.10.26 - 00:30
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Amazon, Canadians, And The Navy All Want Reactors In Indiana (ZeroHedge)
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Amazon, Canadians, And The Navy All Want Reactors In Indiana
Amazon, Canadians, and the U.S. Navy all showed up in Indiana this past week with reactor plans.
On Monday, AEP, X-energy and Amazon unveiled a 960 MW nuclear proposal in Sullivan County, and Canada's AtkinsRéalis signed on to study up to eight CANDU reactors. On Tuesday, Radiant said the Navy had picked it to put a microreactor at Naval Weapons Station Crane.
That's as many as 21 reactors floated in two days, in a state that has never had a commercial nuclear power plant. Its most serious attempt, Public Service Indiana's Marble Hill, was abandoned half-built in 1984 after roughly $2.5 billion had been spent.
This time, the state is doing a lot of the courting itself. Since Gov. Mike Braun took office in 2025, Indiana has passed laws that let utilities recover most of the cost of developing small modular reactors before one is ever built and give a 20% tax credit to companies that manufacture them in the state.
In April, Braun s...
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24.10.26 - 01:42
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Trump drops some Canada tariffs in bid to boost embattled Susan Collins in Maine (The Guardian)
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Republican senator faces critical re-election battle in state where president's trade war has outraged voters Donald Trump dropped some of the US's tariffs on Canada on Friday to “better serve the public interest” the White House said, handing a win to Susan Collins, the embattled Republican senator for Maine, as she faces a tight re-election campaign that will help determine whether Democrats can flip control of Congress.Collins announced that the exemptions would apply to nine agricultural products, including blueberries, potatoes, apples and seaweed. She added that many of the state's farmers rely on specialized equipment and materials from across the border that are “unavailable from American suppliers or cannot be replaced without incurring significant expense”. Continue reading......
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23.10.26 - 21:36
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USA passt einige Kanada-Zölle an - Druck aus Grenzstaaten (DPA-AFX)
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WASHINGTON/OTTAWA (dpa-AFX) - Kurz vor den US-Zwischenwahlen und inmitten des Handelskonflikts mit Kanada haben die USA einige ihrer Zölle gegen Produkte des nördlichen Nachbarn angepasst. Die republikanische Senatorin Susan Collins aus dem US-Bundesstaat ......
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