Category Archives: Nuclear energy

NRC releases long-withheld Diablo Canyon tsunami analysis

Ten years after the agency first received the analysis, a divided Nuclear Regulatory Commission decided last week to publicly release a draft report from a subcontractor that preliminarily concluded in 2003 that sub-sea landslides off the West Coast could…

 

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IG: Sandia apparently broke law by lobbying for contract extension

The operator of the Energy Department’s Sandia National Laboratories appears to have violated federal law, procurement regulations and its own contract by using taxpayer money to fund an elaborate lobbying campaign to persuade DOE brass not to put its…

 

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Obama, China’s Xi announce historic new climate change pledges

In a historic joint announcement Wednesday that raises hopes for finalizing a new international climate change treaty next year in Paris, President Obama pledged that the United States will cut net greenhouse gas emissions by 26-28 percent below 2005 levels…

 

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DOE probing chemical explosion at Nevada site

The Energy Department last week disclosed that it is investigating a June 2014 chemical explosion that injured two workers at its Nevada National Security Site. DOE’s Office of Enterprise Assessments revealed the accident in an October 29 letter to…

 

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Entergy CEO ‘more than willing’ to do deal with New York on nuke plant’s future

DALLAS—Entergy Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Leo Denault Thursday floated the possibility that his company would be willing to strike a “constructive” agreement with New York officials on early closure of the controversial…

 

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Baran nominated to new, longer term at NRC

In a move that would ensure a longer term at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for new member Jeffery Baran, President Obama nominated the former Hill staffer Thursday to fill out the remainder of the term of departing NRC Chairman Allison Macfarlane, who is…

 

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Operator of DOE’s Brookhaven lab gets potential 20-year extension

After a contract competition that may have lacked any other bidders, the Energy Department announced last week it was retaining Brookhaven Sciences Associate as the operator of its Brookhaven National Laboratory under a new contract that could enable the…

 

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New York regulators throw lifeline to Exelon’s struggling Ginna nuke

Advancing a possible model for other operators of financially ailing nuclear plants, New York regulators last week approved a request by Exelon Corp. and Rochester Gas Electric that the utility negotiate a cost-based contract to buy power from…

 

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Macfarlane urges more NRC consideration of Yucca alternatives

Outgoing Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Allison Macfarlane said Monday the agency is stymied in reviewing the Yucca Mountain license application because of the Energy Department’s unwillingness to advance the application for the nuclear waste…

 

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B&W splitting power generation from nuke, federal contracting

In a move to boost shareholder value, Babcock Wilcox Co. announced last week it is splitting into two different companies by spinning off its government contracting and nuclear operations into a new stand-alone firm and retaining its power generation…

 

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