Vol. 16, No. 44 
Big nuclear policy reforms hit a ‘wall’ in House, Senator says
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Budget & Policy
Nuclear agencies keep their 2023 budgets through Jan. 19 under new stopgap appropriation
The Department of Energy’s 2023 budget was extended through Jan. 19 by another short-term spending bill, which Congress passed this week before leaving Washington for their Thanksgiving recess. President Joe Biden (D) signed the House-authored bill on Thursday, the same day the Senate passed it 87-11. The House passed the bill Tuesday 336-95. This is […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Waste disposal still No. 1 nuclear bugbear, Manchin says
Nuclear-waste disposal is still nuclear energy’s biggest problem, the senior U.S. Senator from West Virginia told a gathering of nuclear professionals this week in Washington. “The biggest hurdle we have right now? What the hell do we do with the waste?” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Monday during the opening plenary session of the American […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Consent based siting team-lead change at DOE
Natalia Saraeva, formerly the team lead for the Department of Energy’s consent based siting program, is now the community and stakeholder engagement lead at DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy. Saraeva was the team lead for DOE’s consent based siting program for about one year and took on a new role in October, according to her […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
NuScale hopes to send small reactors for canceled project to another customer, CEO says
Six small modular reactors that NuScale, Portland, Ore., planned to use in a canceled generation project in the southwestern U.S. could be diverted to another customer, the company’s CEO said Tuesday. “I want to be able to take those modules and move them over to our next customer,” John Hopkins, president and CEO of NuScale, […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Round up: Diablo Canyon app out; House’s nuke reform package; NRC risk appetite; more
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week released Pacific Gas and Electric’s Corp.’s (PG&E) 2,915-page license renewal application for the Diablo Canyon Power Plant in Avila Beach, Calif. The utility had to apply for renewal before Dec. 31 for the commission to consider the application timely filed. In a press release Thursday, NRC said it is […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
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