Some talk, but no action and no more session days scheduled

As a candidate for governor in 2010, Scott Walker promised to lift the state's moratorium on nuclear energy.

It was a position that Walker's predecessor, Democrat Jim Doyle, had supported.

Under the conditional moratorium, enacted in 1983 in the aftermath of the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania, a new nuclear power plant "must be economically advantageous to ratepayers and a federal nuclear waste repository must exist."

When we last checked on Walker's promise, in July 2013, a spokeswoman from the governor's office told us Walker "is still supportive of this issue" and was monitoring a bill that she said would make it more feasible to build a nuclear plant.

Since then, the Republican Party approved a resolution at its state convention in May 2014 supporting plans by GOP lawmakers to lift the moratorium. But no legislation has moved forward and the Legislature is out of session until January 2015, when Walker's term ends.

Given that the moratorium is still in place, with no initiatives in the works to remove it, we are moving this pledge from Stalled to Promise Broken.