Vol. 17, No. 31 Nuclear Energy would get slight boost in ‘25 Senate appropriations bill; waste account whole
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Recommissioning & Restarts
Holtec to receive additional $150 million in state funding for Palisades restart
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) last week signed a bill that includes $150 million more in state funding to help restart the Palisades Nuclear Plant. The new tranche of funding, passed as part of a supplement to the state’s 2024 budget, brings Michigan’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
DOE starting concept work on PR campaign for safe transport of spent fuel
The Department of Energy on Wednesday started market research for high-profile, public demonstrations of the many severe kinds of abuse transport systems for spent nuclear fuel are designed to withstand. The agency’s Office of Nuclear Energy on Wednesday released… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
House Dem’s pay-to-pollute proposal has handouts for future repository host states, tribes
A bill introduced in the House Tuesday would charge companies for emitting greenhouse gasses and reserve some of the proceeds for states and tribes hosting permanent nuclear-waste disposal sites. Filed in the second half of a contentious presidential election year… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Round up: Ex-NRC commish says ‘too late’ for U.S. repository; Diablo Canyon olympic link; Japanese interim storage; more
It’s “too late for the Energy Department,” a former commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission wrote this week in an essay for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. “I don’t think any state would ever trust the Energy Department to build and operate… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in […]