Wisconsin’s Senate has voted to lift a longstanding ban on building new nuclear plants unless a federal site exists to store the waste and it can be shown to benefit ratepayers.
The Senate voted 23–9 for Senate Bill 384, with several Democrats joining Republicans in voting for the measure. The bill now heads to the desk of Gov. Scott Walker.
The bill sponsored by Rep. Kevin Petersen (R-Waupaca) was unanimously approved by the state assembly’s energy and utilities committee late last year and by a bipartisan voice vote in January in the full assembly.
