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Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Greg Jaczko said this week New York state lawmakers should approve the proposed nuclear moratorium bill to protect taxpayers from possible financial overruns of new nuclear plants. Assembly Bill A114333, named New York State Ratepayer Protection Nuclear Moratorium Act, would install a two-year halt to state funding and permits for new nuclear reactors. During that temporary stoppage, a nuclear assessment task force will conduct a report on the financial, environmental and public impacts of constructing a new reactor before going forward. The proposed New York state legislation comes as Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) pushes for more nuclear power to meet growing energy demands in the… |
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| Weapons Complex Morning Briefing |
Livermore, Kansas City execs discuss nuclear modernization
The United States nuclear weapons enterprise must be flexible, scalable and collaborative in coming years in a world where Russia and China are rapidly modernizing their nuclear triad, officials said during a Tuesday webinar held by the Advanced Nuclear Weapons… |
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Benton County, Wash., wants to keep WIPP open to Hanford
The governing board for Benton County, Wash., home to the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, has urged New Mexico officials not to restrict interstate shipments of transuranic waste to DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M. “The Benton… |
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Reprocessing “not ready for primetime” and poses proliferation concerns, Roecker says
The United States should hold off on nuclear fuel reprocessing, until the proliferation concerns around the process are addressed, a former National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) official said recently. In a May interview with Exchange Monitor, Scott Roecker, who formerly… |
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Environmental document, decision clear way for expanded Sandia ops
A key environmental document and Record of Decision (ROD) issued Thursday by the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) clears the way for expanding operations for Sandia National Laboratories over the next 15 years. The “expanded operations alternative”… |
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