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The federal government is warning the owners of a troubled nuclear power plant in Georgia that any move to cancel a planned expansion would lead to demands for quick repayment of nearly $6 billion in federal loans. In a letter to the plant's three owners, the Department of Energy said late Friday that if the construction project is cancelled, the government is "prepared to move swiftly to fully enforce its rights under terms of the loan guarantee agreements, including the repayment provisions."
Many social media posts claim that the power plant is on the brink of a going 'nuclear,' but Verify can confirm that this is false. A Duke Energy nuclear power plant in Brunswick, North Carolina was in the direct path of Hurricane Florence as it made landfall last week.
Led by Senators Lisa Murkowski and Cory Booker , additional co-sponsors include Senators James Risch , Mike Crapo , Richard Durbin , Sheldon Whitehouse , and Chris Coons . S. 3422, the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act , will help reestablish U.S. leadership in nuclear energy by launching robust public-private partnerships among the federal government, leading research institutions, and the best industry innovators.
The Trump administration is preparing to ask for even deeper funding cuts to clean energy research at the Energy Department - just months after Congress rejected proposed cuts to those offices. The White House's Office of Management and Budget on Friday directed the department to submit a budget request that would reduce funding for all nondefense offices by 5 percent from what the administration sent to Congress for fiscal 2019.
At a West Virginia rally on tax cuts, President Donald Trump veered off on a subject that likely puzzled most of his audience. "Nine of your people just came up to me outside.
Massachusetts congressman William Keating says a nuclear waste bill that passed the U.S. House includes important provisions for the soon-to-be-closed Pilgrim nuclear plant in Plymouth. Keating, a Democrat, says the bill prioritizes removal of spent fuel from older nuclear facilities and those like Pilgrim that are being decommissioned.The plant's shutdown is scheduled for May 2019.Keating says speedier removal of nuclear waste from the site will help make the decommissioning process safer.
The House on Thursday approved an election-year bill to revive the mothballed nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain despite opposition from home-state lawmakers. Supporters say the bill would help solve a nuclear-waste storage problem that has festered for more than three decades.
The House is moving to approve an election-year bill to revive the mothballed nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain despite opposition from home-state lawmakers. Supporters say a bill slated for a vote Thursday would help solve a nuclear-waste storage problem that has festered for more than three decades.
This April 9, 2015, file photo shows the south portal of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump near Mercury, Nev. The House is moving to approve an election-year bill to revive the mothballed nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain despite opposition from home-state lawmakers.
The longtime anti-nuclear activist and repeat candidate for statewide office was tired of not getting through to voters. And after a publicized arrest for growing marijuana, his political aspirations felt more distant than ever.
The Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel got its first look this week at a memorandum of understanding hammered out earlier this year between the administration of Gov. Phil Scott and both Entergy Nuclear and NorthStar Group Services Inc. The memorandum of understanding , with the state Department of Public Service, Agency of ... (more)
A Russian government hacking operation aimed at the U.S. power grid did not compromise operations at any of the nation's power plants, federal regulators and the industry said Friday.
In Russia probes, Republicans draw red line at Trump's finances - Mueller charges lawyer with lying about Gates interaction - Top Republicans on Capitol Hill have made a concerted decision in their Russia inquiries: They are staying away from digging into the finances of President Donald Trump and his family.
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Trying to further distinguish himself from Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, Republican primary challenger Danny Tarkanian is praising the Trump administration's effort to restart licensing of a nuclear waste dump outside Las Vegas. Long opposed by most Nevadans, Trump included the Yucca Mountain plan again in his second budget request to Congress on Monday.
A whistleblower has told House Democrats that during President Donald Trump's inauguration speech, Flynn texte... . Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, leaves a secure area at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017.
It is already well known that former President Bill Clinton was right in the middle of the now widely reported criminal Uranium One deal. What isn't well known is that this was the second of two criminal uranium deals involving the former President and the Clinton Foundation.
Protesters drowned out speeches by White House advisers and business representatives Monday at an event the U.S. government sponsored at the U.N. climate talks in Germany promoting the use of fossil fuels and nuclear energy. About 200 protesters stood up 10 minutes into the event and began singing an anti-coal song to the tune of "God Bless the U.S.A." They were ushered out of the room without further incident.