COLORADO: Committee kills bill that would have established feasibility study on nuclear energy.

Senate Bill 22-073 would have required the Office of Economic Development (OED) to study using small modular nuclear reactors as a carbon-free energy source that would contribute to the state’s goal of reducing overall carbon emissions.

The Democratic-controlled Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee voted to postpone the bill indefinitely by a 3-2 party-line vote.

“As other states begin lifting their moratoriums, such as West Virginia, or actually initiating small modular reactor projects, such as Wyoming, Colorado is left behind,” Sen. Bob Rankin, R-Carbondale, one of the bill’s sponsors, said in a statement. “Climate change may be real, but the Democrats’ concerns about it are as fake as can be.”

If you aren’t serious about nuclear, you aren’t serious about reducing carbon emissions.