An environmental advocacy group is supporting early steps in the potential restart of the Duane Arnold Energy Center near Palo, though the Natural Resources Defense Council has never before backed the reopening of a nuclear plant.
Kit Kennedy, one author of the council’s 12-page statement, says as the needs increase for more electricity, the group wants to minimize other forms of power generation.
Kennedy says, “With electricity demand growing, we want to make sure that any data centers, in Iowa or anywhere, aren’t powered by coal-fired generation or by gas generation.”…