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FEATURED UNLOCKED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
No Yucca Money in 2018 Omnibus, House's Top Energy Appropriator Says
The House’s top energy appropriator appeared to quash any hope that a fiscal 2018 budget being put together in advance of a March 23 federal-funding deadline would contain any money for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository in Nevada. In the face of that ominous prediction, Yucca booster-in-chief Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) told news outlets including Politico this week that the funding might yet make it into a omnibus spending bill House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) wants to vote on next week. The dark, if predictable, cloud over Yucca funding descended after Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), chairman of the House Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee, told media including… |
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DOE Brass Reaching Out to Barrasso on Cleanup Nominee, Source Says
U.S. Energy Department officials, possibly including Energy Secretary Rick Perry, have reached out to persuade Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) to lift his hold on the nomination of Anne Marie White to be assistant secretary of energy for environmental management, an… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
DOE Reaching Out to SRS Liquid Waste Contract Bidders: Sources
The U.S. Energy Department appears to be reaching out to all the teams that bid on the $4.7 billion contract to manage liquid waste at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, after the Government Accountability Office last month upheld… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
Yucca Mountain Bill Would Pass if it Gets to House Floor, Shimkus Says
U.S. Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) on Monday said he believes 300 members of the House of Representatives would line up behind his bill on advancing the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository if it could get a floor vote. In an… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
NNSA Eyes Increase for Savannah River Site's Weapons Mission
The future of the Savannah River Sites nuclear-weapons mission should become clearer by next month, when the Department of Energy plans to release a draft solicitation for the contract that includes the site’s work for the National Nuclear Security Administration… |
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