Trump demands action to stop coal and nuclear plant closures.
FT 2nd June 2018 read more »
President Donald Trump ordered his energy secretary to take immediate action to stem power plant closures, arguing that a decline in coal and nuclear electricity is putting the nation’s security at risk. “Impending retirements of fuel-secure power facilities are leading to a rapid depletion of a critical part of our nation’s energy mix and impacting the resilience of our power grid,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in an emailed statement Friday. Trump has directed Energy Secretary Rick Perry “to prepare immediate steps to stop the loss of these resources and looks forward to his recommendations.”
Bloomberg 1st June 2018 read more »
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Reuters 1st June 2018 read more »
Hanford officials can start thinking about how they will train workers for the start up the site’s $17 billion vitrification plant. Bechtel National nuclear safety engineers have finished a 7,000-page document that outlines the potential hazards of treating low-activity radioactive waste and what’s needed to control the dangers. It took three years to complete.
Tri City Herald 31st May 2018 read more »
Growing among the weeds of Congress’ policy garden are a few sprouts of nuclear energy legislation that, if properly tended to, could lead to the blossoming of America’s carbon-free and high-tech future. On May 24, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed a 2019 spending bill that included both language on, and money for, nuclear energy research, which could help reanimate an industry that has been trapped in an overly long winter. The Obama years were not kind to the nuclear power industry. Nuclear power was excluded from the $100 billion in tax credits spent on competing wind and solar technologies. It bore the competitive brunt of historically cheap natural gas prices and endured the adverse attention brought about by the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan.
The Hill 31st May 2018 read more »
