The U.S. Department of Energy has released an information guide for communities considering replacing their retired or retiring coal power plants with nuclear power plants. The guide is based on a technical study that found transitioning from a coal plant to a nuclear one would increase local employment opportunities, create additional higher paying jobs, and spur increased revenues and economic activity in the host community. It also found that, with planning and support for training, most workers at an existing coal plant should be able to transition to work at a replacement nuclear plant.
In March 2022, Terra Praxis published the report “Repowering the Global Coal Fleet By 2050.” This was followed in June 2022 by the launch of the Beautiful Nuclear Campaign which called for REPOWER as one of top 5 priorities for clean energy transition. On November 7-17, 2022 at COP27 in in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, Terra Praxis launched REPOWER -- a global Repowering Coal initiative to enable every coal plant owner in the world to assess their coal plant for conversion to clean energy, alongside global climate leaders and partner Microsoft.