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Progressive Rep. Ocasio Cortez talks up spent fuel reprocessing during Japan trip
During a congressional visit to Japan this week, one of the House’s most politically-progressive members took to social media to talk about the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle — in particular, recycling spent nuclear fuel. “When we discuss the risk and controversial parts of nuclear, a lot of it centers on nuclear waste and what to do with it,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) wrote in an Instagram post Wednesday. “Nuclear waste is radioactive, and needs to be securely taken care of.” Ocasio-Cortez was in Japan this week as part of a congressional delegation that among other places visited the site of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which in… |
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Spent fuel milestone reached at Indian Point decom site, Holtec says
The company in charge of decommissioning a shuttered New York nuclear power plant has finished packing spent fuel from one of the facility’s three reactors into storage canisters, a senior official said last week. Holtec International wrapped up fuel loading… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
Final Hanford medical RFP hits the street; new deal would cover vit plant workers
The Department of Energy on Thursday solicited bids for an Occupational Medical Services provider for the 10,000-plus federal and contract workers at the Hanford Site in Washington state. Questions on the final request for proposals should be sent to the… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
Leveraging federal tax credits, Constellation to invest $800M in Braidwood, Byron nuke plants
Two Illinois nuclear power plants — one of which recently avoided a premature shutdown — are getting a multi-million cash injection thanks to a federal nuclear production tax credit, owner Constellation Energy announced this week. The roughly $800 million infusion,… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
Court will wait until late summer to decide fate of S.C. pit plant lawsuit
A nearly two year-old federal lawsuit filed by environmental groups against the National Nuclear Security Administration’s planned plutonium-pit plant in South Carolina should enter its final stages this summer, recent court filings show. In a scheduling order filed Thursday, the… |
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