NEI Nuclear Notes

Diego Garcia (left) and Gators for long-term energy planning. Earlier this week, a Florida State Senate committee held a hearing on the state's nuclear cost recovery law . Paul Genoa was on hand to deliver testimony on behalf of NEI, but today I'd like to focus on another individual who testified on Monday. His name is Diego Garcia . He's a senior at the University of Florida currently and is double majoring in nuclear engineering and political science. He's also president of the campus chapter of the American Nuclear Society. That's him in the picture with a few of his classmates who showed up at Monday's hearing. So why should we listen to Mr. Garcia ? Put simply, nuclear cost recovery laws have been put in place all over the country in order to allow electric utilities to engage in the sort of long-term planning that's desperately needed on the electric grid . And when we're talking about facilities that could potentially be producing emissi...