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A year after Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced the goal of a small nuclear reactor in Southwest Virginia in the next decade, activists are wondering when the public will be past of the planning process.

So local jobs may only amount to security, cutting the grass, and periodic reactor maintenance with possible radiation exposure. The Appalachia Peace Education Center in Abingdon considers the small reactors a bad idea. Here’s why. by Rees Shearer, October 16, 2023 https://cardinalnews.org/2023/10/16/small-modular-nuclear-reactors-unlikely-unaffordable-dirty-and-dangerous/ A year ago, Gov. Glenn Youngkin came to Bristol to announce proposals from his…

A Dominion official tells RadioIQ they expect SMR’s to become an important part of the grid in about a decade. He says the company is currently considering locations and designs.

How are our billionaires holding up through COVID? Published Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, 10:32 am Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP | Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com (© pict rider – stock.adobe.com) If you were worried about how our billionaires are riding out COVID-19, no need: they’re doing OK. The collective wealth of Virginia’s eight billionaires increased $7 billion betwe...