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• Plan for Pueblo nuclear power plant rejected

  April 25, 2011 9:06 PM

  PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) - The Pueblo County commissioners have rejected a request to rezone land in the eastern part of the county for a nuclear power plant. The Chieftain reports the commissioners voted 3-0 Monday against a special land-use permit sought by Pueblo lawyer Don Banner. He has proposed rezoning... more »

• Pueblo County Commissioners to rule on nuclear proposal tonight

  April 25, 2011 12:52 PM

  The Pueblo County Commissioners will make a decision tonight on whether or not to allow an energy park south east of Pueblo which would clear the way for a nuclear power plant to be built there. Pueblo Attorney Don Banner is proposing the 24,000 acre park, which would include... more »

• Protest in Pueblo against proposed nuclear plant

  April 2, 2011 12:13 AM

  "No" to a nuclear power plant. That's the message from protestors who gathered Friday on the steps of the Pueblo courthouse. A couple hundred people came out. Some spoke, others sang their message. The proposed clean energy park would be built on 24,000 acres of land in Pueblo county.... more »

• Opposition to nuclear power plant plans rally

  March 30, 2011 11:51 AM

  A group opposing zoning plans which would allow a future nuclear power plant southeast of Pueblo will rally on Friday, trying to put pressure on the Pueblo County Comissioners to vote against the idea. The group, Puebloans for Smart Energy, will hold the rally on Friday at 4 p.m.... more »

• Public hearings on nuclear power this week in Pueblo

  March 13, 2011 11:04 PM

  Workers in Japan pump seawater into nuclear reactors to keep them from a meltdown, but the crisis is not over. These actions come as Pueblo County Commissioners this week will listen to debate about putting a nuclear power plant in Pueblo County, south of Avondale. "I don't think you... more »

• An emergency at second nuclear plant declared in Japan

  March 12, 2011 6:47 PM

  TOKYO (AP) - Japan's nuclear safety agency is reporting an emergency at a second reactor in the same complex where an explosion occurred earlier. The agency says the cooling system has now malfunctioned at the plant's Unit 3. The plant is one of two damaged in Friday's earthquake and tsunami. more »

• Nuclear plant hearing location changed

  March 4, 2011 12:38 PM

  The land use hearing related to a proposed energy park in southeast Pueblo County has been extended to two days, in anticipation of many hours of testimony. The Pueblo County Commissioners will hear testimony for and against construction of a nuclear power plant, as well as other kinds of... more »

• Pueblo commission approves nuclear plant proposal

  February 23, 2011 12:53 PM

  In a meeting that lasted almost 7 hours, the Pueblo County Planning Commission approved two measures that might one day result in a nuclear power plant being built southeast of Pueblo. The 24,000 acre site south of Grape Road and east of Huerfano Road would include a nuclear power... more »

• Environmental group opposed to proposed nuclear power plant

  February 23, 2011 12:47 AM

  A group wants to build a clean energy park in southeast Pueblo County including a nuclear power plant, but not everyone supports it. Puebloans for Energizing Our Community want to build the energy park south of Highway 50, about 25 miles east of Pueblo. The land is zoned... more »

• Birds call Three Mile Island home

  June 18, 2010 12:58 PM

  State wildlife officials say Three Mile Island, known for a 1979 nuclear accident, is now the only known site in Pennsylvania where bald eagles, peregrine falcons and osprey are nesting near each other. The Pennsylvania Game Commission said Friday that a pair of bald eagles joined the others on... more »

• Nuclear industry poised to hire thousands

  April 30, 2010 8:43 AM

  The Southern Co. believes it can break ground on the country's first nuclear plant in 30 years, but it will need a new generation of workers to run it. Plans for building a wave of nuclear reactors would create a need for 12,000 to 21,000 new workers. Those positions... more »

• Solar company wants to build plant on front range

  February 12, 2010 5:57 PM

  Plans are in the works to bring more energy production to Southern Colorado and with it hundreds of new jobs. Helios Solar announced on its website, it wants to build at least one manufacturing plant along Colorado's front range. The plant would manufacture revolutionary solar units called Suncubes. Pueblo and... more »

• One out of four nuclear power plants have radioactive leaks

  February 1, 2010 4:01 PM

  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission reports potentially dangerous levels of radioactive tritium - which can cause cancer - were found over the weekend in groundwater at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in Vernon. The discovery brings to at least 27 the number of nuclear reactors in the U.S. with tritium leaks... more »