CASEnergy Coalition

Jobs Launch Media Coverage

Take a look at some of the media coverage we recieved from our June 17, 2008 press conference to announce the launch of our new jobs initiative and to release our white paper "Job Creation in the Nuclear Renaissance."
  
 

Atomic Insights
June 19, 2008
 
On Tuesday, June 17, 2008, I had an opportunity to take a few hours off from my day job to attend a CASEnergy Coalition sponsored press conference announcing the release of a new white paper titled Job Creation In the Nuclear Renaissance (4.8 MB PDF). If you are interested in just the Executive Summary from the white paper, you can find it at WP Executive Summary. CASEnergy is streaming the video from the event at Energy Policy TV - Nuclear Channel/ CASEnergy White Paper Addresses Job Creation in the Nuclear Renaissance.
 
Ex-gov touts nuke jobs
Jessica Coomes
NJ.com
June 18, 2008
 
"Those who live close to nuclear reactors are overwhelmingly in favor of them," Whitman said. "They understand what they bring to the community. They know they're safe. I would suspect that you'd find that same reflection in South Jersey. It's as you get further way, people don't have the knowledge, they haven't lived with them." 
  
At a time when manufacturing jobs are dwindling, and when veterans home from Iraq and Afghanistan are looking for jobs, nuclear plants could be the answer, U.S. Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., said, speaking at a press conference with Whitman.
    
Platts
June 17, 2008
 
A nuclear revival in the US could create "tens of thousands" of high-paying jobs if the 30 reactors currently in the planning stages are built, according to a paper released Tuesday by the pro-nuclear Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, or CASEnergy.
 
The paper said that as many as 4,000 workers might be needed during the height of each project, and that between 400 and 700 permanent positions would be created to support the operations of each new reactor. The figure for the peak period of construction is much higher than the 2,400-worker estimate previously cited by the Nuclear Energy Institute. But neither CASEnergy nor NEI specified whether the 4,000 or 2,400 jobs were needed to build one or two units. NEI has said that building a plant would create about an average of 1,400 to 1,800 jobs.
 
Lisa Mascaro
Las Vegas Sun
June 17, 2008
 
Earlier Tuesday, former Environmental Protection Agency chief Christine Todd Whitman, who now heads up a pro-nuclear group, said the nuclear renaissance will go on with or without Yucca Mountain.
 
“That is the designated site, but we also take the position that’s not the only site,” said Whitman, co-chair of the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition known as CASEenergy. “This is not a deal-breaker going forward with nuclear.”
 
NAM Press Release
June 17, 2008
 
“Nuclear energy is a clean, reliable source of power that has the potential to create thousands of high-paying U.S. manufacturing jobs,” said NAM president and CEO John Engler at a news conference with the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition (CASEnergy Coalition) to release a new white paper, titled Job Creation in the Nuclear Renaissance, which examines the job growth potential for existing and future nuclear power plants in the next decade.
 
Nuclear Option: It’s Not Verboten Anymore
Posted by Keith Johnson
Wall Street Journal
June 17, 2008
 
But even the Democrats are getting on board. California senator Barbara Boxer was wowed by nuclear energy in France, and figures it will have to be part of the energy mix as soon as the waste storage issue is sorted. It’s not just about juice, or emissions—nuclear power’s renaissance can also be a motor of job creation. That’s the message today from the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, a pro-nuclear lobby.
  
Whitman promotes nuclear power
Raju Chebium
Cherry Hill Courier Post Online
June 17, 2008

Former Gov. Christie Todd Whitman today promoted nuclear energy as a means to cut pollution, minimize global warming and create thousands of new jobs.
 
Whitman, the former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, co-chairs the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, a Washington-based group.

The organization released a report today making the case for nuclear power as Americans increasingly worry about global warming and energy issues take on added urgency with gasoline costing $4 a gallon most everywhere.

Additional Coverage

  • Nuclear Backers' Study Says New Plants = 610,000 Jobs, Power Market Today, June 19, 2008
  • NUCLEAR POWER: New reactors will create jobs, boost U.S. economy, advocates say, Robin Bravender, E&E News, June 17, 2008