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• NGNP Licensing Strategy

  NRC and DOE deliver report to Congress The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S.  Department of Energy (DOE) this week delivered to Congress the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) Licensing Strategy Report . The Energy Policy Act of 2005 directed the agencies to jointly develop a strategy for licensing the NGNP demonstration plant.  The report to Congress explains that current... Posted Aug 15 2008, 07:00 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: NRC licensing, next generation nuclear plant, DOE

• Moab tailings will move by rail

  The government will ship 16 million tons of waste 30 miles.  Within the next 10 years approximately 12 million cubic  yards of the MOAB uranium mill tailings will take a final journey of just 30 miles and end a disturbing episode in the history of the West.  This week the Department of Energy restated its intent to move the tailings by rail from their current location on the banks of... Posted Aug 10 2008, 12:38 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: DOE, MOAB uranium

• U.K. & U.S. grapple with investments in national nuclear labs

  The reality is new nuclear R&D is not cheap or easy The U.K. announced this week that it will charter and fund a new national nuclear laboratory (NNL) at a cost of L$2 billion ($4 billion US at current rates).  In the U.S. the Department of Energy worried out loud how it will "re-establish a nuclear R&D complex without the budget to support it."  The stark contrast between... Posted Jul 26 2008, 11:12 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: DOE

• Idaho signs new nuclear waste cleanup agreement

  It removes a threat to the Snake River aquifer from transuranic wastes Idaho Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter (left) stepped into history  this week joining former Idaho governors Cecil Andrus and Phil Batt by signing a ground breaking cleanup agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy.  Like its predecessor agreements , signed by these two previous Idaho governors, this one implements... Posted Jul 05 2008, 04:54 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Idaho Cleanup Project, DOE

• House Committee erases GNEP from '09 budget

  Prospects are uncertain in the Senate The House Appropriations Committee voted this week to zero out funding in FY2009 for the Department of Energy's ill-fated and much maligned Global Nuclear Energy Program ( GNEP ).  This is a repeat of last year's action by the House which kicked GNEP to the curb only to see some of the cuts restored by Senate action via conference committee. The immediate... Posted Jun 28 2008, 03:07 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: GNEP, DOE

• Budget cuts put U.S. nuclear scientists on the street

  Lawrence Livermore lays off 440 hitting a total of 1,800 out the door The Associated Press reports that a major Department   of Energy national laboratory has laid off 440 employees as part of a total reduction in staffing of 1,800.  Of that number the wire service reports over 100 are top scientists and engineers with critical knowledge about the nation's nuclear weapons arsenal... Posted Jun 03 2008, 06:52 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: jobs, DOE

• Closing the nuclear fuel cycle

  DOE puts GNEP reports online  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released detailed reports and presentations developed by four industry consortia that provide industry perspectives on closing the nuclear fuel cycle in the US. The reports and presentations were submitted by EnergySolutions; General Atomics; General Electric-Hitachi; and the International Nuclear Recycling Alliance, led by... Posted May 28 2008, 11:11 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: nuclear fuel cycle, DOE