{"id":30104,"date":"2021-04-26T11:28:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T17:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30104"},"modified":"2021-04-26T12:40:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T18:40:04","slug":"tax-incentives-for-nuclear-energy-firms-clear-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30104","title":{"rendered":"Tax incentives for nuclear energy firms clear first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companies that build advanced nuclear reactors in Nebraska would be eligible for tax incentives under a bill advanced from general file April 26.<figure id=\"attachment_24401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24401\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24401\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24401\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBostelman_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;13&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communicati&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Senator Elect Bruce L. Bostelman, December 18th, 2018. Photo by Gregory Nathan \/ University Communication&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1545149814&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2018, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;130&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenBostelman_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Bruce Bostelman&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Bruce Bostelman&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBostelman_inline.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBostelman_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Bruce Bostelman\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBostelman_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBostelman_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Bruce Bostelman<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Under LB84, sponsored by Sen. Bruce Bostelman of Brainard, a renewable energy firm that uses nuclear energy to produce electricity would qualify for incentives under the ImagiNE Nebraska Act.<\/p>\n<p>Bostelman said the bill is intended to help Nebraska attract companies that currently are developing advanced nuclear energy technology. He said small modular reactors, molten salt reactors and microreactors, which are the size of semi-trailers, are safer than current designs and can improve the electrical grid\u2019s reliability. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the energy industry becomes more reliant on renewable energy, and given the current administration\u2019s commitment \u2026 to all carbon-free sources of energy, including advanced nuclear reactors, it would be prudent to incentivize nuclear energy in Nebraska,\u201d Bostelman said. <\/p>\n<p>Sen. Julie Slama of Peru supported the bill. She said small modular reactors can be turned off and on to meet electricity demand, making them more flexible than traditional large-scale reactors that must run at nearly full capacity at all times. That is important at a time when renewable energy, which can fluctuate with the weather, is becoming a larger part of utilities\u2019 power generation portfolio, Slama said.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmall-[scale] nuclear reactors are coming,\u201d she said. \u201cNebraska has a great opportunity here to be a leader on that front.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elkhorn Sen. Lou Ann Linehan also supported LB84, saying advanced nuclear energy projects would create high-paying jobs and generate electricity in rural Nebraska in a \u201cfiscally reasonable way.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Senators voted 36-1 to advance the bill to select file. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies that build advanced nuclear reactors in Nebraska would be eligible for tax incentives under a bill advanced from general file April 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-30104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-revenue","tag-sen-bruce-bostelman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LB84Bostelman4-24-21a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30107,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30104\/revisions\/30107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}