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White House Again Seeks Funds For Yucca License
The Donald Trump administration on Monday stuck to its guns about turning Nevada’s Yucca Mountain into a permanent nuclear waste repository, requested almost $170 million in fiscal 2019 for the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to work on the licensing the facility. The total 2019 request is just over 10 percent higher than the 2018 proposal for Yucca Mountain and covers $120 million for the Department of Energy (DOE) and $47 million for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC): the independent federal regulator of civilian nuclear waste. By the numbers, that’s the same Yucca budget the White House proposed for DOE last year. Proposed NRC funding, on the…
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White House Requests 20% Increase for NNSA Weapons Programs in FY19
The Donald Trump administration on Monday proposed what would amount to a $2-billion-a-year raise for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) — a roughly $15-billion fiscal 2019 budget request that would accelerate existing nuclear-warhead refurbishment programs and consider making warhead…
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Contract Protest on SRS Liquid Waste Sustained But Under Wraps
Although details are being kept under wraps by a protective order, the U.S. Government Accountability Office on Friday sustained a protest brought by one losing bidding team against a $4.7 billion contract the Department of Energy awarded in October for liquid…
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NRC Anticipates Millions in Savings in Nuclear Decommissioning Rulemaking
When completed, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission rulemaking on decommissioning nuclear reactors could save millions of dollars over six decades, according to a new analysis of the costs and benefits of the process. As it approaches the end of the…
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Senators Snarl Over Plutonium Missions at Confirmation Hearing for NNSA Administrator-Designate
WASHINGTON — Territorial snarling over Department of Energy plutonium programs imparted some edge to an otherwise cordial nomination hearing here Thursday, where President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said production of nuclear-weapon cores would…
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