Don’t Let Nuclear Industry Get Hooked on Subsidies
Nuclear energy is a hot topic in Washington these days. An important question that has stirred debate is whether the federal government should back up loans to build new nuclear power plants. On...
View ArticleDiscussing Solutions for Nuclear Waste
The Obama administration’s rhetoric on nuclear energy has been promising. Unfortunately, actions speak louder than words and his decision to attempt to kill the waste repository program at Yucca...
View ArticleTexas Leading Way on Nuclear Energy Revival
The Wall Street Journal reports today that the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission voted 5-2 yesterday to approve rules for accepting out-of-state nuclear materials. This is...
View ArticleNRC Censors Flub Opportunity to Move Yucca Debate Forward
As a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, The Heritage Foundation today obtained the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Yucca Mountain Volume III Safety Evaluation Report (SER)....
View ArticleObama’s Transparency on Science Doesn’t Include Nuclear
Today the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology released a comprehensive report that details the Obama Administration’s attempt to prematurely and unnecessarily shut down the used nuclear...
View ArticleGeorgia Commissioner Seeks Reforms for Nuclear Waste Management
Photo courtesy of the Athens Banner-Herald. State public service officials are gathered in Washington, D.C., this week for the winter meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility...
View Article10 Ways the Obama Administration Is Hurting America’s Energy Economy
One of the few bright spots over the past few years in America’s economy has been energy production, but this has occurred largely in spite of this Administration’s energy policies, not because of...
View ArticleManaging Nuclear Waste
Few think of a calm pool of water when they think of nuclear waste. While nuclear waste must be handled with skill and care, the problems with managing America’s existing and future nuclear waste are...
View ArticleDOE Nuclear Waste Plan Ignores Basic Flaw of Current Policy
The Department of Energy (DOE) released its long-awaited “Strategy for the Management and Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-level Radioactive Waste” Friday afternoon. Regrettably, the DOE missed a...
View ArticleSenators’ Nuke Waste Plan Renovates When We Really Need to Raze and Rebuild
Newscom Senators Ron Wyden (D–OR), Dianne Feinstein (D–CA), Lamar Alexander (R–TN), and Lisa Murkowski (R–AK) finally released a discussion draft of their much anticipated nuclear waste bill this...
View ArticleThe President’s Pro-Nuclear Rhetoric vs. His Anti-Nuclear Policies
Polaris/Newscom President Obama released his Climate Action Plan this week, which laid out his vision for reducing climate change. Regardless of what one thinks about climate change policy, producing...
View ArticleGeorgia Leader Beats Drum for Nuclear Energy
Newscom Georgia is riding a wave of new nuclear energy that, five years ago, many thought would be more crowded by now. Georgia Public Services Commissioner Tim Echols, a champion of using market...
View ArticleCourt Kicks Yucca Mountain Review Back in Motion
Newscom Despite the politics surrounding Yucca Mountain and the Obama Administration’s policy to terminate the project, a federal court today held the executive branch to its chief role: executing the...
View ArticleYucca Mountain: NRC Takes First Step to Follow the Law
Newscom The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) took a constructive step toward finishing the job on Yucca Mountain. Yesterday, the NRC announced its plan of action to complete the safety evaluation...
View ArticleCourt Decision on Nuclear Waste Fee Offers Chance for Reform
Everett Collection/Newscom The D.C. Circuit Court delivered a welcome conclusion this week in NARUC v. Department of Energy: The Department of Energy (DOE) cannot charge commercial nuclear power plant...
View ArticleH.R. 3766 Wrong Approach to Global Commercial Nuclear Growth
Last week Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R–FL) introduced H.R. 3766, resurrecting the supposed “gold standard” for commercial nuclear trade. However, the bill discourages the very behavior that...
View Article7 Times Obama Ignored the Law to Impose His Executive Will
President Obama—the imperial President, the “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone” President who can’t wait to show us his “year of action”—once vowed to do exactly the opposite. The biggest problems...
View ArticleFY 2015: Yucca Mountain Circus Continues
Officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee to defend their budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2015 this week, putting on display one...
View ArticleDOE Can’t Collect Fees for Not Managing Nuclear Waste
The commercial nuclear power industry has for over 30 years been paying billions of dollars for a nonexistent government waste management program—until today. As of today, the Department of Energy...
View ArticleDOE Can’t Collect Fees for Not Managing Nuclear Waste
The commercial nuclear power industry has for over 30 years been paying billions of dollars for a nonexistent government waste management program—until today. As of today, the Department of Energy...
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