PRESS RELEASE: MBEF: SMR Investment Funding Could Result in a $37 Billion Impact for Missouri

Mon, Jul 30, 2012

JEFFERSON CITY, MO – James R. Moody, a leading policy voice in Missouri, today joined Missourians for a Balanced Energy Future (MBEF) to release a report that describes a potential $37 billion impact small modular reactors (SMRs) could have on Missouri, should our state be selected for the Department of Energy’s investment funding. According to the report, the SMR industry could also create […]

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Reactors could add thousands of jobs, supporters say

Sun, Jul 29, 2012

Production of small modular nuclear reactors in Callaway County could potentially tap into $25 billion in sales worldwide and provide thousands of high-paying jobs that can’t come from any other industry, according to a new study from supporters of expanded nuclear power. Missourians for a Balanced Energy Future hired Jim Moody, a lobbyist respected for […]

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Little Reactors: Looking for the nuclear bonanza

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

On Monday area residents got another taste of the small modular reactor potential as Gov. Jay Nixon and other boosters visited the University of Missouri to tout a possible nuclear power manufacturing operation in Callaway County. Expectation has ramped up in recent months as the consortium between Ameren Missouri and Westinghouse Electric Co. maintains momentum. […]

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Industry has power to change

Thu, Jul 26, 2012

Our nation is on the cusp of a nuclear energy revolution driven by technology innovators and university researchers alike. New small module reactor designs, (SMRs) — built in modules with the capability of producing power anywhere in the world — have the power to change the way we use nuclear energy. For the revolution to […]

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Turning trash into electricity

Wed, Jul 25, 2012

Ameren Missouri is turning trash into electricity. The utility company announced today that it has opened Maryland Heights Renewable Energy Center, the largest facility in Missouri and one of the largest in the country. Ameren Missouri’s Maryland Heights Renewable Energy Center runs on a simple principle: taking something nobody wants, decomposing trash, and turning it […]

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Nixon: Reactor project could help define Missouri

Mon, Jul 23, 2012

The technology is unproven, the financing undetermined and the market prospects unclear. But those uncertainties aren’t preventing a phalanx of Missouri business and political heavyweights from lining up behind a next-generation nuclear energy project that Gov. Jay Nixon hopes will help define the Show-Me State much like the American auto industry helped elevate Detroit. Flanked […]

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