Vol. 9, No. 89 Washington Ecology publishes comments, nears test-bed demo permit
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Budget & Policy
Newsom has bill to boost PG&E’s Diablo Canyon life-extension loan
The California legislature last week passed a bill that would give Pacific Gas & Electric $400 million more to keep the Diablo Canyon Power Plant open for the rest of the decade. The funding, which Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) proposed, is part of the state’s annual budget bill. The legislature initially rejected Newsom’s proposal to […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Barwell is new NRC finance chief
Owen Barwell will take over as chief financial officer of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on July 14, the agency announced last week. NRC’s chief financial officer (CFO) is responsible for the management and auditing of the agency’s finances and is the five-member commission’s top financial policy adviser. Barwell was most recently CFO of Independence Hydrogen, […]
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Transuranic Waste
Next WIPP town hall session set July 30
The Department of Energy’s Carlsbad Field Office in New Mexico and the prime contractor for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant will hold the next town-hall-style public meeting at the end of July. The hybrid meeting will provide an update on disposal of defense-related transuranic waste and related issues at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), […]
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International
IAEA director touts ‘consensus’ with World Bank on nuclear expansion, wants double investment
Meeting IAEA’s 2023 nuclear projections of doubling the world’s nuclear power capacity by 2050 will require doubling investments in nuclear power to $100 billion U.S. dollars annually, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday. Countries seeking to add nuclear energy to their arsenal need technical and financial expertise through deployment of nuclear energy and low […]