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Federal officials said the public will have many opportunities to participate in the licensing process for a new DTE Energy nuclear plant. During a public outreach meeting Wednesday - the first of its kind in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Midwest region - agency officials said public involvement will be crucial to the process.
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Environmental, safety and economic themes dominated questions that citizens posed about DTE Energy's plans for a new nuclear power plant near Newport during a public meeting with federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials in Monroe Wednesday night. More than 200 area residents, including some from Ohio and Canada, showed up at Monroe County Community College to voice concerns, lend support or just get information about the utility's intent to build a 1,560-megawatt Fermi 3 reactor near its existing Fermi 2 plant.
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DTE Energy in the next dozen years aims to do something no American utility has managed in a generation: bring a new nuclear plant online. It's the only one planned today for Michigan, yet DTE will jostle with utilities around the country to meet federal tax credit eligibility -- starting with an application deadline this year -- and to mobilize a supplier base to a large extent now gone or located overseas.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold an open house and public meeting Aug. 20 at Monroe County Community College to discuss the licensing process for DTE Energy's proposed new Fermi 3 nuclear plant. The "public outreach" meeting will start with an open house from 6 to 7 p.m., followed by a public meeting from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the La-Z-Boy Center. The public will be invited to comment on and ask questions about the process.
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BRIDGMAN, Mich. (AP) — Investigations of security practices at American Electric Power Co.'s Cook Nuclear Plant in southwest Michigan have led to the suspensions of six people who work at the facility. The Herald-Palladium in St. Joseph reports Saturday that investigations by AEP and security provider Wackenhut Nuclear Services found two "brief and isolated instances" of officer inattention and inappropriate use of security cameras.
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MANITOWOC — Lawmakers have asked federal regulators to investigate concerns of residents living near two nuclear plants about the storage of nuclear waste in their backyard. Point Beach Nuclear Plant, in Two Creeks, and Kewaunee Power Station, in Carlton, currently or plan to store spent nuclear fuel rods in dry cask storage bunkers at their facilities along Lake Michigan.
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