Healey’s Energy Bill Opens Door to New Nuclear Reactors - The Provincetown Independent

Healey’s Energy Bill Opens Door to New Nuclear Reactors - The Provincetown Independent

PLYMOUTH — Gov. Maura Healey’s energy bill, now before the state legislature, contains a provision that would clear the way for development of new nuclear energy facilities in Massachusetts. Holtec’s rendering of an SMR, or small modular reactor, proposed for the Palisades, Mich. site where it is restarting a plant it originally purchased to decommission. (Illustration courtesy Holtec International) According to a May 24 Statehouse News Service …