Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 13
Visit Archives | Return to Issue
PDF
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Article 5 of 7
March 29, 2024

Second minibus bill signed; has Price-Anderson extension; 2024 federal budgets set

By ExchangeMonitor

President Joe Biden (D) on Saturday signed a package of appropriations bills that fund the Department of Defense and other agencies through Sept. 30 and extended a key federal nuclear indemnity program.

The bill extended Price-Anderson protections for Department of Energy contractors and commercial nuclear companies to Dec. 31, 2065 from Dec. 31, 2025 and quadrupled the financial protection the federal government must provide to these companies for nuclear incidents that occur outside the U.S.

Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Shelley Capito (R-W.Va.), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, included the Price-Anderson extension in the 1,000-plus-page spending bill.

The Department of Energy and the rest of the federal government now has stable funding for the remainder of the 2024 fiscal year, which ends Oct. 1. DOE’s final 2024 budget was part of a separate package of six appropriations bills that Biden signed on March 9.

Comments are closed.

Partner Content
Social Feed

NEW: Via public records request, I’ve been able to confirm reporting today that a warrant has been issued for DOE deputy asst. secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition Sam Brinton for another luggage theft, this time at Las Vegas’s Harry Reid airport. (cc: @EMPublications)

DOE spent fuel lead Brinton accused of second luggage theft.



by @BenjaminSWeiss, confirming today's reports with warrant from Las Vegas Metro PD.

Waste has been Emplaced! 🚮

We have finally begun emplacing defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in Panel 8 of #WIPP.

Read more about the waste emplacement here: https://wipp.energy.gov/wipp_news_20221123-2.asp

Load More