Debate Returns Over Early Site Permit for Nuclear Power Plant

Debate Returns Over Early Site Permit for Nuclear Power Plant: "This week, Sen. Mike Kehoe, R-JeffersonCity, introduced a bill that would, among other things, allow a consortium of energy companies lead by Ameren Missouri to charge customers up to $45 million for the cost of obtaining an early site permit to begin construction on a second reactor at the Callaway Nuclear Power Plant outside Fulton, Mo.

The bill would chip away at the state's CWIP, or Construction Work in Progress law, which prevents utilities from increasing fees to ratepayers for the financing of a new power generating facility before the plant is online. Missouri voters approved the law in the 1970s as a reaction to the first reactor at Callaway."

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