The story “Va. Gov. makes appointment to low-level waste commission” [Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, Jan. 06, 2025] should have said that the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact allows member states to ship waste to disposal sites in Texas and Utah, and that the compact’s member-states are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia.
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DOE provides up to $5 billion in a conditional loan to Constellation for power plant uprates
Constellation Energy was issued a conditional loan by the Department of Energy of up to $5 billion dollars to increase its operating reactor fleet capacity by 1,100 megawatts. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and DOE’s Energy Dominance Financing Director Gregory Beard made the announcement at Constellation’s Byron Clean Energy Center in Ogle County, Ill. Tuesday […]