U.S. lawmakers from Michigan again went on the record about their opposition to Canada’s proposal to permanently dispose of Canadian nuclear waste in South Burce, Ontario, some 30 miles inland from Lake Huron and one of two sites, along with Ignace, Ontario, where the Canadian Nuclear Waste Management Organization could build the province’s deep geologic repository .
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Rep. Daniel Kildee (D-Mich.) introduced companion resolutions in the Senate and House, respectively, “[e]xpressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President and the Secretary of State should ensure that the Government of Canada does not permanently store nuclear waste in the Great Lakes Basin.”
Pacific Gas & Electric estimates that Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant would generate another 227.57 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel if the plant, recently bailed out by California and the federal government, is authorized by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to operate its Unit 1 and Unit 2 reactors until 2029 and 2030, respectively.
The utility provided the estimate in response to a request from Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.), representative of California’s 24th congressional district, which includes Diablo Canyon’s home of Avila Beach. The NRC posted Pacific Gas & Electric’s letter online.
The Illinois state Senate passed a bill that would, if signed into law, once again allow for construction of new nuclear power plants in the Land of Lincoln.
Senate Bill 76 easily cleared the chamber Thursday by a vote of 39-13. The Illinois House of Representatives must now consider the measure. Illinois has long prohibited construction of new nuclear power plants until either the federal government builds a nuclear waste repository or the state legislature specifically authorizes a new plant.
Brian Tierney will leave investment bank Blackstone to become the chief executive officer of First Energy, the Akron, Ohio-based electric utility whose former subsidiary owns the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station and the Perry Nuclear Generating station at the heart of a bribery scheme that rocked Ohio a few years ago.
Tierny, most recently New York-based Blackstone’s senior managing director and global head of infrastructure operations and asset management, will be the capstone on a corporate house cleaning that began in 2020, when FirstEnergy cleaned house in the executive suite as part of a plan to remake the company’s culture in the wake of the scandal.
FirstEnergy announced the hiring in a press release on Monday.
