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Deseret News | House panel hears promise from EnergySolutions to limit foreign waste - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 23 May 08
     
    WASHINGTON - EnergySolutions would limit international low-level radioactive waste to five percent of its storage facility in Tooele County, company chair R. Steve Creamer told a U.S. House panel this morning. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, and other opponents of the company's plan to bring Italian waste to the United States see a threat to the country's storage capacity for its own low-level waste. But Creamer tried to calm those fears by committing to a limit on the amount of foreign waste the company would take.
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ReviewJournal.com - PRESIDENT'S BUDGET OUTLINE: Plan sounds death knell for Yucca Moun... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 02 Mar 09
     
    Minimal funding recommended; new options advised Nevada's congressional delegation praised President Barack Obama for making it clear in his budget outline Thursday that the Energy Department's 20-year, $9 billion effort to study Yucca Mountain and seek a license for a nuclear waste repository there is on its last legs. "This project is dead, and this announcement is another indicator that our efforts are paying off," Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., said in a joint statement released by the delegation. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said it "was very easy working with the Obama administration" to cut funding for the project to record low levels. "In the future, people will say that President Obama kept his promise to the people of Nevada," Reid said.
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Senate energizes Oklahoma nuclear-plant push | NewsOK.com - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 14 Mar 09
     
    A bill to encourage construction of nuclear power plants in Oklahoma passed the Senate by a 36-9 vote on Tuesday. The Nuclear Energy Incentive Act would help companies that want to build nuclear power plants recover the money spent on construction. "We need to explore all the options for generating power," said Sen. Brian Bingman, R-Sapulpa, author of Senate Bill 831. Some senators opposed the bill because they were concerned about storage of nuclear waste. "If they were removing the nuclear waste, would they be driving that on our roads," asked Sen. Kenneth Corn, D-Poteau.
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The Free Press -- Another spectacular $50 billion no nukes victory for the forces of So... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 16 Feb 09
     
    For the third straight year, against all odds, a national grassroots No Nukes campaign has stripped out of the federal budget a proposed $50 billion boondoggle for new atomic reactors. The victory gives a giant boost to solar, wind, efficiency, mass transit and other Solartopian technologies that can solve global warming, sustain real economic growth and bring us a truly green-powered Earth. This latest victory came Wednesday, February 11, as a top-level Congressional conference committee ironed out the last details of the Obama stimulus package. The loan guarantee scam was slipped into the Senate version by Republican Bob Bennett (R-UT) in cooperation with Democrat Tom Carper (D-DE). The loan guarantees would have backed a Department of Energy program supporting new reactor construction, despite a report from the Government Accountability Office warning that such projects would bankrupt more than half the utilities that might undertake them.
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Ethics scandal brewing at DOE? | knoxnews.com - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 27 Sep 09
     
    Weapons Complex Monitor reports that the Dept. of Energy is investigating an ethics complaint filed against Cynthia Anderson, who heads the Recovery Act efforts for DOE's Office of Environmental Management. The newsletter's Mike Nartker reported that the investigation was prompted by an anonymous complaint, which alleged improper acts in hiring-related activities at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and other issues. The newsletter received a copy of the complaint, which also was reportedly sent to U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., the House Majority Whip, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and others. In a statement, DOE spokeswoman Shari Taylor Davenport told the newsletter, "The Department of Energy takes allegations of unethical behavior seriously and is looking into the matter."
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Peak Energy: "New" Nuclear Reactors, Same Old Story - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 15 Jun 09
     
    AMory Lovins has a look at various new forms of nuclear power being touted as the next big thing - "New" Nuclear Reactors, Same Old Story. he dominant type of new nuclear power plant, light-water reactors (LWRs), proved unfinanceable in the robust 2005-08 capital market, despite new U.S. subsidies approaching or exceeding their total construction cost. New LWRs are now so costly and slow that they save 2-20x less carbon, 20-40x slower, than micropower and efficient end-use.1 As this becomes evident, other kinds of reactors are being proposed instead-novel designs claimed to solve LWRs' problems of economics, proliferation, and waste.2 Even climate-protection pioneer Jim Hansen says these "Gen IV" reactors merit rapid R&D.3 But on closer examination, the two kinds most often promoted-Integral Fast Reactors (IFRs) and thorium reactors4-reveal no economic, environmental, or security rationale, and the thesis is unsound for any nuclear reactor.
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FR: NRC: proposed release of contaminated property into unrestricted use - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 24 Jun 09
     
    Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for License Amendment to Byproduct Materials License No. 47-00260-02, for Termination of the License and Unrestricted Release of Two Union Carbide Corporation Facilities Located in South Charleston, WV AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Issuance of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for License Amendment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steve Hammann, Health Physicist, Commercial and R&D Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I, 475 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania; telephone 610- 337-5399; fax number 610-337-5269; or by e-mail: stephen.hammann@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Introduction The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering the issuance of a license amendment to Byproduct Materials License No. 47- 00260-02. This license is held by Union Carbide Corporation (the Licensee) for its South Charleston Technology Park and South Charleston Plant located, respectively, at 3200 Kanawha Turnpike in South Charleston, West Virginia, and at 437 MacCorkle Avenue in South Charleston, West Virginia (the Facilities). Issuance of the amendment would authorize release of the Facilities for unrestricted use and termination of the NRC license.
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Technology Review: Allison Macfarlane: A nuclear expert on life after Yucca. - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 24 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 24 Jun 09
     
    In 1982, the U.S. government formally accepted the dirty job of finding a place to dispose of highly radioactive nuclear waste, including spent reactor fuel, which will remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years. Five years later, Congress directed the U.S. Department of Energy to begin seriously investigating a single site--Yucca Mountain, NV--as a permanent geological repository. But earlier this year, with 60,000 metric tons of spent fuel clogging storage facilities at power plants, the Obama administration announced that it would cut Yucca's funding and seek alternatives. Credit: Chris Crisman Allison Macfarlane, a geologist at George Mason University and the editor of Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste, is a leading technical expert on nuclear-waste disposal who recently sat on a National Research Council committee evaluating the Department of Energy's nuclear-power R&D programs. She spoke with David Talbot, Technology Review's chief correspondent, about the future of nuclear waste--and what it means for the future of nuclear power.
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America's 10 Energy Challenges | knoxnews.com - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 04 Jul 09
     
    That's the cover headline on the lastest issue of the ORNL Review, which identifies those challenges as: Carbon Reduction; Conservation; Bioenergy; Electric Vehicles, Nuclear; Battery Storage; Interactive Grid; Sequestration; Fusion; and Non-Proliferation. "As the nation's largest energy research facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is playing a leading role in addressing of energy's '10 Big Problems.' Our strategy is grounded in the belief that no single technology and no single energy source can alone provide the volume of energy capable of sustaining both the quality of our lives and the viability of our planet," ORNL's Billy Stair said in the R&D magazine's intro. It's an interesting read.
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House panel approves 'clean energy' bank - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 21 May 09
     
    The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a provision to its sweeping climate and energy bill that would create an autonomous Clean Energy Deployment Administration within the Energy Department and make reforms to DOE's loan guarantee program for low-emission projects. The time spent debating the amendment was more than hour, suggesting the committee will face a slog through the 946-page measure. The amendment passed 51-6, with ranking member Joe Barton (R-Texas) among a handful of Republicans who opposed it. Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), who offered the amendment with Democrats Jay Inslee of Washington and Bart Gordon of Tennessee, said the plan would aid deployment of new nuclear plants as well as renewable technologies. Changes to the loan guarantee program and creation of a "clean energy" bank within DOE are also part of a major energy bill before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, although the plans are not identical. The Clean Energy Deployment Administration would be empowered to provide a suite of financing options, including direct loans, letters of credit, loan guarantees, insurance products and others.
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Nuclear power, strike 1 | MNN - Mother Nature Network - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 22 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 22 Feb 10
     
    "Two recent nuclear leaks expose the danger of overhyping a technology that is still not ready for prime time. There has been a recent bout of positive press for the hurting nuclear energy industry, with props given by the likes of Barack Obama and Bill Gates, causing some to call it a nuclear "comeback." And while I agree with both our president and our most famous billionaire that nuclear will at some point it the future be a big part of the solution, a spate of recent events has drawn attention to the fact that though it helps on the carbon front, nuclear power is still very dangerous business. Last year the Chalk River power plant in Ottowa sprung two leaks, spewing 7,000 liters of radioactive water per day into the Ottowa River and this month a similar mysterious leak at the Yankee Vermont plant is resulting in dangerous tritium contamination of the nearby Connecticut River. A full 25 percent of the 104 nuclear reactors in the U.S. have leaked tritium, a known carcinogen. Yes, these are old plants but they call attention to the fact when nuclear goes wrong it can go very wrong. Though there are some newer, safer next-generation nuclear technologies available, they are prohibitively expensive to bring online and still require highly radioactive fuel stocks. There are many exciting developments in nuclear R & D (see my visit to LANL) which make use of downgraded nuclear fuels, but they are in the early stages of development, and that means we're not likely to see them popping up in the landscape anytime in the near future. * Nuclear, Strike 1: TOXIC WASTE * Nuclear, Strike 2: EXCESSIVE COST * Nuclear, Strike 3: WATER DEMAND * The 6 myths of nuclear energy exposed"
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Gates goes nuclear in zero carbon vision on Environmental Expert - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 01 Mar 10
     
    "Bill Gates has called for a dramatic increase in R&D investment for low carbon technologies, including his own new pet project into advanced nuclear reactors, warning that developed countries will need to completely decarbonise the energy they use by 2050 if they are to avert the worst effects of climate change. Speaking at the annual TED Summit in California late last week, the billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft chairman, said the widely accepted goal of reducing carbon emissions by 50 to 80 per cent by mid-century was likely to prove insufficiently ambitious. Outlining the so-called COPSEC equation, which states that carbon emissions are a factor of population, services, energy and carbon per unit of energy, Gates argued that with population and consumption of services set to rise and improvements in energy efficiency able to go only so far, the way to deliver deep cuts in carbon emissions is to reduce CO2 per unit of energy to zero."
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Steve Kirsch: Chu v. Orszag: Why Chu Is Right and Orszag Is Wrong - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 01 Feb 10
     
    "The White House has proposed barring Energy Department research on fast reactor recycling of nuclear waste and technical support for licensing of small, modular light-water reactors, drawing protests from Energy Secretary Steven Chu that such prohibitions will have broad adverse effects, including hurting the U.S. nuclear industry's renaissance; crimping U.S. ability to influence other countries' fast reactor designs to address proliferation concerns; and taking away nuclear waste disposal options that might be considered by the administration's planned blue-ribbon panel on alternatives to the Yucca Mountain repository. In the letter, Chu said he "strongly disagree[s] with the policy direction [proposed by OMB] concerning allowable nuclear energy R&D activities.""
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Department of Energy - Secretary Chu Announces Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nucl... - 0 views

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  • The members of the Blue Ribbon Commission are: Lee Hamilton, Co-ChairLee Hamilton represented Indiana's 9th congressional district from January 1965-January 1999.  During his time in Congress, Hamilton served as the ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and chaired the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.  He is currently president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and director of The Center on Congress at Indiana University.He is a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board and the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council.  Previously, Hamilton served as Vice Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission). Brent Scowcroft, Co-ChairBrent Scowcroft is President of The Scowcroft Group, an international business advisory firm. He has served as the National Security Advisor to both Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush. From 1982 to 1989, he was Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm.Scowcroft served in the military for 29 years, and concluded at the rank of Lieutenant General following service as the Deputy National Security Advisor. Out of uniform, he continued in a public policy capacity by serving on the President's Advisory Committee on Arms Control, the Commission on Strategic Forces, and the President's Special Review Board, also known as the Tower Commission. Mark Ayers, President, Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO Vicky Bailey, Former Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Former IN PUC Commissioner; Former Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs Albert Carnesale, Chancellor Emeritus and Professor, UCLA Pete V. Domenici, Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center; former U.S. Senator (R-NM) Susan Eisenhower, President, Eisenhower Group, Inc. Chuck Hagel, Former U.S. Senator (R-NE) Jonathan Lash, President, World Resources Institute Allison Macfarlane, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University Richard A. Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution for Science, and former Chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Ernie Moniz, Professor of Physics and Cecil & Ida Green Distinguished Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Per Peterson, Professor and Chair, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California - Berkeley John Rowe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Exelon Corporation Phil Sharp, President, Resources for the Future
  • Energy Net on 01 Feb 10
     
    "The Commission, led by Lee Hamilton and Brent Scowcroft, will provide recommendations on managing used fuel and nuclear waste Washington, D.C. - As part of the Obama Administration's commitment to restarting America's nuclear industry, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced the formation of a Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future to provide recommendations for developing a safe, long-term solution to managing the Nation's used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. The Commission is being co-chaired by former Congressman Lee Hamilton and former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft. In light of the Administration's decision not to proceed with the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, President Obama has directed Secretary Chu to establish the Commission to conduct a comprehensive review of policies for managing the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. The Commission will provide advice and make recommendations on issues including alternatives for the storage, processing, and disposal of civilian and defense spent nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. "
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Senators Hatch and Reid Introduce New Energy Legislation Important to U.S. Rare Earths,... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 08 Mar 10
     
    "Senators Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) and Harry Reid (D-Nevada) this week introduced the Thorium Energy Security Act of 2010 to accelerate the use of thorium-based nuclear fuel in existing and future reactors. Their legislation establishes a regulatory framework and a development program to facilitate the introduction of thorium-based nuclear fuel in nuclear power plants across the nation. The U.S. relies on foreign sources for approximately 90 percent of its uranium fuel needs. However, the most recent U.S. Geological Survey's (U.S.G.S.) Thorium Mineral Commodity capital summary confirms that the United States has the largest thorium deposits in the world. The well-documented Idaho-Montana Lemhi Pass thorium holdings of U.S. Rare Earths, Inc. (www.usrareearths.com) have officially been recognized by the U.S.G.S. in their Jan. 2010 Mineral Commodity Summary, pushing the U.S. to number one in the world (for the first time ever) with 440,000 metric tons of reserves. "
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DOE and USEC finalize demo agreement | knoxnews.com - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 29 Mar 10
     
    "I recently noted that the Dept. of Energy had not yet delivered on its $45 million commitment to USEC as part of a cooperative agreement while R&D continues on the American Centrifuge project. Well, DOE and USEC today issued separate announcements saying that the deal was done, with a $90 million "cost-shared" effort, which reportedly will help demosntrate the commercial viability of the big uranium-enrichment project. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who's been in Oak Ridge for two days, was reportedly visiting the USEC centrifuge manufacturing facility this afternoon following a tour of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. According to the DOE announcement: "The costs will be shared between the Department and USEC. The Department's $45 million share will be met by taking title (but not immediate possession or custody) to a quantity of depleted uranium tails. "
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Free Press - Harvey Wasserman: Will the Climate bill nuke Earth Day? - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 26 Apr 10
     
    "The Climate Bill is due on Earth Day. By all accounts it will be a nuclear bomb. It will be the ultimate challenge of the global grassroots green movement to transform it into something that can actually save the planet. For the atomic power industry, the bill will cap a decade-long $640-million-plus virtual cleansing of its radioactive image. It will have the Obama Administration and Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Lindsay Graham (R-SC) embracing very substantial taxpayer subsidies for building new nuclear plants. Ditto new offshore drilling and "clean coal." The markers have been laid for a greenwashed business-as-usual approach toward pretending to deal with global climate change and the life-threatening pollution in which our corporate power structure is drowning us. All without actually threatening certain corporate profits. From "An Inconvenient Truth" to Obama's impending Earth Day address, the official emphasis is on each of us, as individuals. To be sure, we ALL must consume smarter, use less and recycle more. Since the first Earth Day, all these great green ideas have had an undeniable impact. "
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Kazakh uranium drive sheds Soviet nuclear legacy | Reuters - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 21 Jun 10
     
    "Grandey, chief executive of Cameco Corp, admits to being an anti-nuclear activist in his youth. His company is now among the leading foreign investors in Kazakhstan's fast-growing uranium sector. Kazakhstan surpassed Canada last year as the world's largest uranium miner. With more than 15 percent of global reserves, the Central Asian state is poised to become the primary supplier of the metal to a new generation of nuclear reactors worldwide. "The uranium potential of Kazakhstan is remarkable," said Gregory Vojack, an Almaty-based attorney at Bracewell & Giuliani LLP who advised state nuclear firm Kazatomprom on a $500 million Eurobond last month. The issue was eight times oversubscribed. Global uranium consumption is forecast by the World Nuclear Association to reach 91,537 tonnes by 2020 and 106,128 tonnes by 2030, increases of 33 percent and 55 percent respectively from the 68,646 tonnes forecast for this year."
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Namibia mines concerned about power, water & taxes | Reuters - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 07 Jun 10
     
    "Namibia's Chamber of Mines, which represents the mining industry in the southern African country, is concerned that power and water supply shortages and royalty tax legislation could hamper investment. Mike Leech, president of the industry body in one of the world's top uranium producers, said a royalty tax passed at the end of 2008 would "increase rather than reduce investor risk". "(The tax) is likely ... to make it harder for exploration companies to get projects past the credit committees of the banking institutions they will have to raise the money from," he said in an annual review the chamber published last week."
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Bush signs U.S.-India nuclear pact into law | Reuters - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 10 Oct 08
     
    President George W. Bush on Wednesday signed legislation that will allow the United States and India to open up nuclear trade, saying the two countries are "natural partners." His action will pave the way for the details of the agreement to be signed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Washington on Friday.
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