and exelon own a huge fleet of aging an economic nuclear reactor how they do during hurricane. i mean erma well in new england one big nuclear reactor was forced to go offline historically nuclear power plants aren't super reliable during big stress events involving extreme weather we saw during the recent hurricanes a number of the nuclear power plants had to go offline as a precaution because as we saw with fukushima in japan you have to have an on site power system to run all the cooling systems to keep that nuclear reactions stable if you lose access to the grid it's very risky to run only on that separate on site power so as a precaution during big weather events nuclear power plants often go offline ok that's good energetic conversation want to continue they can stay i can only get as good if there's a dish on the guy's report of a mask as i stated i would like to thank our guests the one and only tyson slocum from the public citizen's energy program going to catch us on twitter as kaiser reports on bio. young children have worked in bolivia for generations almost three q

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bloomberg reports that and i quote, exelon corp., the biggest u.s. utility owner by sales is already offering to reduce bills, end quote. in illinois comed is requesting permission to, and i quote, pass along approximately $200 million in tax savings to its customers in 2018. end quote. and in washington, d.c., pepco has announced plans to pass on savings to customers gig in the first quarter of this year. mr. president, all these benefits are going to make a real difference in families' lives this year and in some cases well into the future. and the main benefits of tax reform are still to come. the i.r.s. just released the new with holding tables for the tax law and americans should start seeing the results in february. thanks to lower income tax rates, the doubling of the standard deduction, and the doubling of the child tax credit, 90% of american workers, 90% should see bigger paychecks starting next month. and that's just the beginning. one major goal of tax reform was to provide immediate direct relief to hardworking americans, and that's happ

the sector is up close to 1.5% so far shares of exelon and sempra energy and entergy are among the leadersctor. they will be ones to watch as interest rates move lower after the government shutdown ended. of course, we have to watch now what happens as we approach the february 8th deadline for the next government shutdown back to you. >> all right dom, thank you dom chu in the newsroom. get a check on cryptocurrencies. south korea is banning anonymous bank accounts used to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. the government will collect 52% of corporate and local income taxes from the cryptocurrency exchanges this year. there is an interesting new report out taking a look at the risks of investing in the cryptocurrency projects online 10% of the funds raised through initial coin offerings are lost or stolen in hack attacks. staggering $7.2 billion raised in icos last year. that's a lot of dough. >> yeah, the focus on the underside of the, you know, of the speculative mania. you wonder about the long term technical adoption and all the rest that people say they're playing whether they buy the cry

we're at a solar power installation, this is ex exelon, the largest solar power generating station inhe country, urban one that is, and you know, it's tricky on these things. solar, it will be a 30% tariff on imported panels like the ones that you see on washers, washing machines a 50% tariff and they will both be transitioned out after a number of years but look at the solar stocks today that tells you why it's tricky. some of the companies that make the panels here in this country doing pretty well today but some like sun power which did the installation where i am here in chicago, they domainly installation. if you do mainly installation you're kind of not happy about it because it figures to raise prices up and probably lead to less installations. in fact the solar power industry says it will be 23,000 fewer jobs. little less complicated on the washing machine side this whole thing was started by whirlpool, big u.s. company makes a lot of washing machines, maytag makes a lot of other branded washing machines. their stock is up today and the folks at whirlpool is saying " this anno

generation the largest generation owner in p j m for example is a chicago based corporation called exelon and acts on a huge fleet of aging an economic nuclear reactor how they do during hurricane. i mean erma well in new england one big nuclear reactor was forced to go offline historically nuclear power plants aren't super reliable during big stress events involving extreme weather we saw during the recent hurricanes a number of the nuclear power plants had to go offline as a precaution because as we saw with fukushima in japan you have to have an on site power system to run all the cooling systems to keep that nuclear reactions stable if you lose access to the grid it's very risky to run only on that separate on site power so as a precaution during big weather events nuclear power plants often go offline ok that's good energetic conversation want to continue to can stay i can only get good if there's a dish on the guys or part of a mask as i stated i would like to thank our guests the one and only tyson slocum from the public citizen's energy program going to catch us on twitter it's ka

>> exelon, duke, dominion and southern company collectively own and operate over half the reactors inory commission to prepare to license lightbridge fuel for use, and we expect that among those will be the first users of our fuel with first fuel rods and a commercial reactor in the united states in about 2021. stuart: well, so all you need -- and i say "all you need" -- you just need a license, you get that license, and you're in regardless of what the greens say. >> well, it is federally licensed, and these utilities obviously work very closely with the public and care about the public as do the manufacturers like our partner, framatome, and we think working with the greens is already having an effect, actually. people like patrick moore, michael shellenberger who are leaders of the environmental movement have really turned around to come and support nuclear power. stuart: that's fascinating. you have turned me around. i'm a supporter. well done. [laughter] come back to the show, because i want to hear about this -- >> i look toward to it. stuart: well done, young man. thanks so muc