In their latest paper, Vince Duane and Tony Clark take a deeper dive into nuclear generator colocation and customer equity considerations.  This time, the two respond to a recent white paper published by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), pointing out many shortcomings with NEI’s position.  Fundamentally, NEI ignores harms that arise from colocation at existing nuclear plants if costs shift unfairly to households and other businesses and grid operators are left to manage infrastructure deficits.  The importance of powering data centers cannot be denied.  But any defense of a colocation arrangement must acknowledge and address the broader consequences that, when these arrangements are structured without customers in mind, inevitably fall on the rest of us.  NEI’s advocacy falls short on this score.

Read the white paper here.