Vol. 7, No. 77 House appropriators back $7.9B in DOE nuclear cleanup funds as part of spending plan
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Budget & Policy
House Appropriations passes $21B NNSA budget; Fleischman thinks UPF needs double funding
The House Appropriations on Tuesday approved a 2023 spending bill that included roughly the requested funding for Department of Energy nuclear weapons programs, one of which should get almost double the funding it will receive under the bill, a Republican Congressman said. The 2023 energy and water development appropriations act should be “[r]aising the amount […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
House lawmakers rail against private interim storage during FY2023 budget debate
House appropriators during a budget markup Tuesday came out swinging against two proposed commercial interim storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel in Texas and New Mexico. “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is racing to license the construction of high level [nuclear waste] storage sites both in New Mexico and in Texas,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) told […]
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Reindustrialization & Redevelopment
Ryan talks DOE Portsmouth contamination, reindustrialization during hearing
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), a candidate for the U.S. Senate, used a House Appropriation Committee markup Tuesday on a Department of Energy fiscal 2023 budget proposal to discuss health concerns and hopes for economic development at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio. During the vote approving the Energy and Water Development subcommittee’s nearly $7.9-billion budget for […]
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Budget & Policy
Favorable ruling for Biden’s federal vax mandate vacated; entire Appeals court to to rehear case
After a three-judge panel earlier this year ruled in favor of the Joe Biden administration’s executive order requiring virtually all federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19, the entire Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to rehear the case. In a two-page order published Monday, the 5th Circuit said it has agreed to grant […]
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Decommissioning
Holtec, Entergy finalize sale of Palisades nuclear plant
Almost a month after it shut down a Michigan nuclear power plant for good, Entergy has finalized the facility’s sale to the decommissioning company that will dismantle it, according to a Wednesday press release. Completing the sale of Palisades Nuclear Generating Station to Holtec International “completes Entergy’s planned exit from the nuclear merchant power business,” […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
DOE hires nuclear waste advocate, LGBTQ ally Brinton to run spent fuel, waste programs
Sam Brinton is the Department of Energy’s new deputy assistant secretary for spent nuclear fuel and waste disposition, according to an internal DOE email seen by the Exchange Monitor. It is Brinton’s first government job. In the role, Brinton will take the helm of DOE’s frustrated, decades-long effort to find a home for more than […]
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Budget & Policy
Lead DOE approps staffer in House leaving Congress
Jamie Shimek, lead staffer on the appropriations panel that writes the first draft of the Department of Energy’s budget every year, will leave Congress and return to the national labs network, lawmakers said during recent budget debates. “She will be my newest constituent,” Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) said Tuesday during the House Appropriations committee’s markup […]