Draft Trump Budget Proposes Major Cuts in EPA, DOE Programs
The Trump administration released a blueprint of its proposed 2018 budget on March 16, likely setting off a major battle with Congress. The budget proposal, “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again” makes major cuts in non-defense… Read More
 

Texas Sues Federal Agencies to Force Action on Yucca Mountain
Texas has filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop the Department of Energy (DOE) from spending tax dollars on consent-based siting activity, and to force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and other relevant federal agencies to complete licensing proceedings… Read More
 

Nuclear Industry Hopeful Congress Will Resolve Spent Nuclear Fuel Impasse
Maria Korsnick, president and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), told POWER on March 9 that the U.S. nuclear industry is optimistic this Congress will work to resolve the nation's long drawn out spent fuel predicament. Speaking at CERAweek… Read More
 
Coal Industry Urges Trump to Continue Funding Fossil Energy Research
If President Donald Trump truly wants to revitalize the coal industry, he should continue to support the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy’s research efforts, representatives of the coal industry said in a March 10 letter. “In light… Read More
 
NRC Accepts NuScale Small Modular Reactor Design Certification Application
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has accepted NuScale Power’s small modular reactor (SMR) design certification application and will provide a design review schedule soon. The NRC’s acceptance marks a major milestone for the first SMR design to ever attempt obtaining… Read More
 
New EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Sets Out to Restrain Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) administrative priorities will be reined in to focus on process, rule of law, and cooperation with states, the agency's new head Scott Pruitt told attendees at CERAweek by IHS Markit on March 9. Since the former… Read More
 
SONGS Arbitration Panel Awards SCE $125 Million
An arbitration panel of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has awarded Southern California Edison (SCE) $125 million in its dispute with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) over the failed replacement of four steam generators at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station… Read More
 
Molten Salt Reactor Claims Melt Down Under Scrutiny
It was an astonishing event when two MIT nuclear engineering graduate students at the end of 2015 announced they had come up with a revolutionary design for a molten salt nuclear reactor that could solve many of the technological problems… Read More
 
 
   

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