Environmental Wind Energy Trumps Nuclear: MidAmerican Scraps Plans for New Reactors in Iowa by Gary Kopycinski on June 5, 2013 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Environmental: People Outside Will Be Injured: Severe Thunderstorms Strike Park Forest March 31, 2026 Park Forest Officials Urge Residents to Protect Pipes as Coldest Air of the Season Continues December 14, 2025 Park Forest Workshops Join Global Effort to Prevent Bird Collisions August 21, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSWPF)–June 5, 2013. The decision of MidAmerican Energy to scrap plans to build nuclear reactors in Iowa is further evidence that nuclear power has no future in the United States, Friends of the Earth said.