Vol. 14, No. 16 
Navajo Nation Prez Wants Church Rock Waste Moved Away from Local Communities
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Enviro Groups’ Petitions Against Interim Storage Site License Placed on Hold
A federal appeals court this week hit the pause button on an environmental group’s recent petition against the licensing of a proposed interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, after combining it with a similar case from last year, according to the court docket. Sierra Club’s April 14 petition against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Manchin Urges Biden Admin to Prevent Nuke Plant Closures
Preserving the country’s civilian nuclear power fleet is “critical” to meeting federal clean energy goals, the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee told the Joe Biden administration this week. “As a zero-emissions baseload fuel source, I believe that maintaining our fleet and preventing closures of existing nuclear plants is critical to achieving […]
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Budget & Policy
FirstEnergy Discusses Potential Deal With Prosecution in Ohio Bribery Investigation
By John Stang While its first-quarter financial numbers were up, Akron, Ohio-based FirstEnergy Corp. said Thursday it is discussing a potential deal with the U.S. Attorney’s Office over its role in a $60 million bribery investigation involving the former Ohio Speaker of the House. To date, neither FirstEnergy nor its current or former top officers […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Watchdog Group Fires Back at NRC Staff Over TMI Clean Water Allegation
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s staff “intentionally mischaracterized” a nuclear watchdog group’s request to hold up the sale of Three Mile Island Generating Station Unit 2 when it recommended the agency toss the petition on procedural grounds, according to a new filing this week. Three Mile Island (TMI) Alert’s March 15 request to pause the plant’s […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Nevada Dem Says Biden, Granholm are “Partners” in Consent-Based Siting Fight
A Nevada Democrat sponsoring a bill that would ban funding for a federal nuclear waste repository without stakeholder consent said this week that the Joe Biden administration and the Department of Energy are in the Silver State’s corner. “With President Biden and Secretary Granholm, I believe we have partners who will help advance these ideas […]
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National Laboratories
Biden Admin Taps Berhe to Lead DOE Science Office
In a flurry of nominations this week, the Joe Biden administration tapped a political ecologist and university professor to head up the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Asmeret Berhe, who’s currently a professor of soil biogeochemistry at University of California, Merced, is the administration’s pick to lead DOE’s science office, according to a Thursday […]