1. The risks associated with storing nuclear waste in overcrowded temporary storage pools or in so-called “interim” consolidated storage facilities. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is an excellent starting point for researching these issues (try the articles here, and here).
2. Should Illinois continue providing subsidies to support Exelon and our nuclear power plants? Right now, this is the one thing that is keeping nuclear as a cost-competitive energy source in our state. Search terms to use to find recent news articles on this: “Illinois nuclear subsidies” and “Future Energy Jobs Act”. Here and here are a couple of articles that might be an entry point to this topic. And here is another.
Interestingly, the subsidies question has two distinctly different directions it can go, politically speaking. On the one hand, nuclear power plants can be grouped with aging coal plants and given subsidies primarily intended to maintain jobs and support industry. On the other hand, nuclear can be grouped with renewables, and subsidies can be use to achieve Paris Climate Accord goals or to forge legal precedent for carbon-based energy policy.