The Delaware Nuclear Energy Feasibility Task Force held a working session focused on SMR costs, economic analysis, and PJM capacity market dynamics, featuring presentations from Idaho National Laboratory and a PSEG nuclear engineering executive. The session surfaced sharp disagreements over nuclear cost data reliability, workforce claims for competing energy sources, and whether Delaware should pass legislation by June 30, 2026 to fund early site permitting.
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Peggy argued that the slide statement that wind and solar 'only bring construction jobs' was 'too broad of a statement' and 'kind of a biased statement,' citing offshore wind maintenance, billing, and tourism jobs. Larry echoed the concern and also challenged a check-mark table showing 'benefits concentrated in local communities' for nuclear, coal, and natural gas but not wind or solar. Chris Losey responded that the slide came from the DOE liftoff report and that he 'would have to go look at how they arrived at that.'
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“Robert, they always come back to total project costs. Has there ever been a study of the cost savings from the healthcare cost of no carbon dioxide emissions, no nox emissions associated with nuclear power? I'm sure NEI has some documents out there that go through the benefits associated with it as well. Because everybody always talks about since there's no decarbon, no greenhouse gas emissions associated with nuclear power, but nobody never says the cost savings, the health cost savings associated with nuclear power compared to combustion, natural gas and cool. Correct? Yeah, those studies are out there, Martin. I. I don't have them in that. So I think that's a different module, actually. But , we always”
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Sign in to subscribeRecording in progress. We have stayed in 2025 for. It is still 2025. We are no longer in 20. You'll note at the top of the agenda. We promise that that's going to be fixed for the next meeting. I'm state senator Stephanie Hansen. I'm the chair of the task force. I have with me my co chair, representative Frank Burns. So let's move now to a roll call. All righty. Senator. Present. Representative Frank Bur. Present. Senator Brian. President. Representative. Present. Tom? No. Present. Wayne Vogel. Present. David Hedgel. Present. Online. India Shaw. Present. Online. Present. Joseph poverty. Present. Mayor nick smith. John quick johnson. Is lambert. Mario. Do you have any meats? Rob Book. Didn't call your name yet? Rob Book. Absent. Kimberly Slick. Came here. Jen Clemens. Present. Online. Robert Dennight. Present. Peggy Schultz. Present. Keith. Hold on. Present. Martin Willis. Present. Andrew Patone. Good morning. Present. Good morning. And Robert Wheatley. Present. Wonderful. So we have 13 physically present, seven virtually present. Fit. Five absent and 25. Okay, there is in your packet for approval the approval of the minutes of March 9, 2026. We do have some amendments. There is one amendment that you see…
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