FirstEnergy identified as company providing money to 501(c)4, Generation Now, charged along with Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder [R] and four political allies
Larry Householder and political allies used more than $60 million from a nuclear energy provider to win back state post and repaid it with $1.1 billion in ratepayer subsidies, say federal charges.
With the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion’s first in-service deadline of November 2021 looming, two monitoring groups testified to state regulators in June that they could not accurately forecast when construction would complete.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a 20-year license extension for Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Units 3 and 4, making them the first nuclear plants approved to operate for 80 years.
EnergySolutions will gain long shut reactor's license and $871-million cleanup fund in goal to accelerate decommissioning; nearby Unit 1 is not part of deal.