Only under Mississippi law a county doesn't get to tax a nuclear power plant. The state taxes the plant and divvies up the money among counties in the plant's service area.

From a cost-to-build perspective, these types of nuclear power plant would take about three years to build at a significantly reduced overall price tag, Nuscale Power Executive Vice President of ...

Groundwater containing low levels of radioactive material may have reached the edge of the Mississippi River, the energy company responsible for the leak from its nuclear power plant in Monticello ...

“If there’s a release of nuclear in the air, we have to go to the evacuation (site) and we have a plan where we evacuate the entire county,” Reeves aid. Plant managers constantly plan for disaster.

Gov. Tate Reeves, seen here in a file photo with Sen. Roger Wicker and Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, held a meeting, May 1, to discuss ways of producing more power in Mississippi. Nuclear growth in MS?

Mississippi power play: How Gov. Reeves wants to improve state energy production MDA director says as more than $70 billion could be invested for future deals in MS, increasing power production is ...

Entergy's River Bend nuclear power plant near St. Francisville sits next to the Mississippi River for a reason. The Big Muddy's waters are used to keep the uranium reactor core of the 974-megawatt ...

The latest litigation, which began last year, centers around outages at the plant; the Grand Gulf was the least reliable nuclear plant in the U.S. from 2018 to 2020, according to figures compiled ...

But some Monticello residents surrounding the plant — located 38 miles northwest of Minneapolis and upstream of the Mississippi River — say they have concerns about what a recurring leak ...

Currently, 31 states have nuclear plants. 24/7 Wall St.’s analysis covers the 10 states in which nuclear energy is the most significant source, or even the only source of emission-free power.

Temporary shutdown of Monticello nuclear plant power causes fish kill MONTICELLO, Minn. -- Late last year, a leak of hundreds of thousands of gallons of contaminated water was discovered at Xcel ...