With 2040 carbon-free deadline looming, bipartisan legislators look to overturn nuclear moratorium

By: Brian Martucci

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: March 19, 2026

Words: 1,115

Last Updated: 1 day, 20 hours ago

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If Minnesota doesn’t lift its 32-year-old ban on new nuclear power reactors soon, it could blow through a self-imposed 2040 deadline to clean up its electric grid.

That was one of the messages hammered home by a bipartisan group of legislators and company officials in the Capitol rotunda this week. They appeared at the behest of the Minnesota Nuclear Energy Alliance, a coalition of 60-odd utilities, electric cooperatives, labor unions, local governments and …

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