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• St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Jones in line to become Missouri House speaker in September
  

  August 14, 2012 by Elizabeth Crisp

  *JEFFERSON CITY* • Missouri House leaders are planning to elect Republican Tim Jones of Eureka as the new House speaker in September when the chamber returns to the Capitol for the Legislature’s annual veto session. [read more]

• Columbia Missourian: Columbia employees begin work on Missouri's largest solar array
  

  August 13, 2012 by Greg Kendall-Ball

  COLUMBIA — Work started Monday on what will be the largest solar energy array in Missouri. [read more]

• Power Engineering: Clarity provided on nuclear power license "freeze"
  

  August 9, 2012 by Brian Wheeler

  The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), the policy organization of the nuclear energy and technologies industry, on August 8 responded to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) August 7 order stating that the regulators would not issue final reactor licenses or 20-year license renewals for existing plants until the agency addresses a recent court ruling on waste confidence. Waste confidence, according to the NRC, is a generic finding that spent nuclear fuel can be safely stored at reactor sites for decades in either spent fuel pools or dry casks, and that a repository will be available for final disposal of the spent fuel. [read more]

• The Energy Collective: Worldwide Nuclear Energy Expansion Continues
  

  July 31, 2012 by Gregor Wolf

  Global production of nuclear energy is expected to grow significantly in future years, despite setbacks in Japan and Germany, as China and the United States eyes next-generation reactors. [read more]

• : SMR Investment Funding Could Result in a $37 Billion Impact for Missouri
  

  July 30, 2012 by MBEF

  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 an additional 13,000 jobs.* [read more]

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

  July 30, 2012 by Missourians for a Balanced Energy Future

  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 an additional 13,000 jobs.* [read more]

• The Columbia Daily Tribune: Industry has power to change
  

  July 29, 2012 by Christine Todd Whitman

  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 advance, a new generation of energy pioneers must lead the charge. Thanks in part to the support of strong leaders who are committed to expanding nuclear energy, Missouri might be that pioneer. [read more]

• Columbia Daily Tribune: Reactors could add thousands of jobs, supporters say
  

  July 29, 2012 by Rudi Keller

  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. [read more]

• The Columbia Daily Tribune: Little Reactors: Looking for the nuclear bonanza
  

  July 26, 2012 by Henry J. Waters III

  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. [read more]

• Lake News Online: Turning trash into electricity
  

  July 25, 2012

  Ameren Missouri is turning trash into electricity. [read more]

• Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Nixon: Reactor project could help define Missouri
  

  July 23, 2012 by Alan Scher Zagier

  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. [read more]

• MissouriNet: Nixon appoints task force to make Missouri hub for next-generation nuclear reactors
  

  July 23, 2012 by Jessica Machetta

  Gov. Jay Nixon headed a summit at the Univeristy of Missouri in Columbia to further discussions about creating small modular nuclear reactors in Missouri. [read more]

• Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources: Missouri selected to receive $715,000 grant from U.S. Department of Energy
  

  July 17, 2012 by NEWS RELEASE

  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri was one of 22 states selected to receive a competitive State Energy Program grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The awards are part of the Energy Department’s effort to reduce energy costs in homes and buildings, create jobs, and boost domestic manufacturing of energy-saving technology. [read more]

• St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Ameren efficiency plan could be a first for Missouri
  

  July 11, 2012 by Jeffrey Tomich

  The business model for electric utilities has always been simple. They made money selling power to run electric devices, from city streetcars in the 1920s to today’s iPads, smart phones and plasma televisions. The more energy they sold, the more money they made. [read more]

• Columbia Daily Tribune: Small reactors are right fit for state
  

  July 8, 2012 by William H. Miller

  *Editor, the Tribune:* Pursuing development of small modular reactors for Missouri will fit well with the energy needs of the state ("Nuclear project a 'game changer,' " June 17).  [read more]

• Power Engineering: Nuclear power at record levels, despite Fukushima disaster
  

  July 7, 2012

  Sixteen months after the nuclear disaster in Japan, electricity generation from nuclear power worldwide has reached record levels, with a reactor construction boom likely to push those levels steadily higher. [read more]

• Gallup: Energy States Lead in Job Creation, Financial States Struggle
  

  July 6, 2012 by Dennis Jacobe

  PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's Job Creation Index shows that Washington, D.C., as well as energy- and commodity-producing states continue to dominate the 10 best job markets during the first half of 2011, as they did over the same period in 2010. [read more]

• Columbia Daily Tribune: Nuke license: Callaway project slow to hatch
  

  July 2, 2012 by Henry J. Waters III

  The proposed next stage of nuclear power plant construction and operation at the Callaway site is on a slow track. [read more]

• Power Engineering: Small modular nuclear reactors draw interest at ANS Annual Meeting
  

  June 27, 2012 by Brian Wheeler

  Interest in small modular reactors (SMR) continues to grow, as evident by the standing room only session held Wednesday, June 26 during the American Nuclear Society's (ANS) Annual Meeting in Chicago. [read more]

• Orlando Sentinel: Nuclear energy = green jobs, economic growth in Fla., beyond
  

  June 25, 2012 by Christine Todd Whitman & Karen Avilla

  We all know how critical Florida is to the outcome of this year's election. This week, as Orlando hosts the annual conference of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, all eyes are on the presidential candidates as they speak to Hispanic elected officials — and by extension, to their constituents — about the issues that are top of mind for voters. [read more]

• St. Louis Beacon: On roofs around the city, solar energy raises its profile
  

  June 22, 2012 by Nick Fandos

  Driving past Civil Life Brewing Co. on a sunny afternoon, the flash of reflected sunlight can be distracting. A glance back at the year-old brewery in the Tower Grove South neighborhood of St. Louis reveals the light's source: an array of 106 solar panels blanketing the brewery's south-facing roof, shining in the sunlight. [read more]

• Business Insider: German Nuclear Policy Phase-out Proving Costly
  

  June 21, 2012

  Although the German government has long debated nuclear power, the current administration rapidly adopted a policy expected to phase-out nuclear power by 2022 following the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The costs of moving toward renewable energy have already been observed in industrial production and are now becoming more pronounced, with low-income consumers paying the price. [read more]

• PV Tech: 3M completes manufacturing expansion of solar film at Missouri plant
  

  June 19, 2012 by Syanne Olson

  3M advised that it had completed its manufacturing expansion for its Ultra Barrier Solar Film, on-time, in Columbia, Missouri, allowing the company to help support the increasing demand for high efficiency flexible PV modules. 3M’s Ultra Barrier Solar Film acts as a replacement for glass and is said to provide high light transmission, excellent moisture barrier performance and weatherability. [read more]

• CNN: 10 most entrepreneurial states
  

  June 18, 2012 by Parija Kavilanz

  6. Missouri [read more]

• St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MEMC gets federal energy grant
  

  June 14, 2012 by AP

  MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. has been awarded a $3.68 million federal grant aimed at encouraging innovative manufacturing. [read more]

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