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While Hillary Clinton has been in Europe promoting her new book, What Happened , the heavily fortified wall of protection around her is crumbling. night, the Justice Department finally lifted a gag order that prevented a FBI informant from testifying to Congress about Russian attempts to offer bribes, kickbacks, and other incentives to secure approval for the highly controversial Uranium One deal.
Congressional Democrats are accusing Energy Secretary Rick Perry of pushing an energy plan that unnecessarily helps the coal and nuclear industries. Perry told a House energy subcommittee Thursday that his proposal would strengthen the country's energy supply so it can withstand storms and other crises.
Nuclear plants are money losers, but Perry is loaning up to $3.7 billion more to the last new one being built. On Friday, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry authorized up to $3.7 billion in taxpayer-backed loan guarantees to finish building the last remaining new nuclear plant under construction in this country.
The majority owner of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in northern San Diego County announced Monday that it is committed to moving spent nuclear fuel to another site. The commitment by Southern California Edison settled a lawsuit filed by an anti-nuclear group nearly two years ago, which opposed the California Coastal Commission's approval of expanded nuclear waste storage at the seaside plant.
The next generation of U.S. nuclear power, which the Trump administration views as a key part of the nation's energy supply, is hanging on by a thread as two key projects have run into serious trouble and are raising doubts about the viability of new nuclear facilities moving forward. Utilities in South Carolina late last month stopped construction at V.C. Summer, scrapping plans to build two reactors near Columbia and ending a 10-year project that was expected to provide something of a blueprint for future cutting-edge nuclear plants.
Even if you are a sensible person and think climate change is a lot of trumped-up Gore , the idea of a revival of nuclear power still seems like a good idea in the abstract. But the nuclear revival hasn't been going well.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have sent a warning to operators of the nation's power plants - nuclear and otherwise - that hackers are targeting such facilities, following a series of hacks that have targeted that critical sector since May. Administration officials tell ABC News the hacks targeted corporate computers of a number of companies that run nuclear power plants, including the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation in Kansas. Wolf Creek declined to comment on security issues but emphasized that there had been no "operational impact" on its facility.
An experimental floating nuclear reactor reportedly caught on fire in St. Petersburg, Russia Tuesday, according to the environmental group Greenpeace. The fire engulfed about 172 square feet of the ship carrying the nuclear plant, but was relatively localized as the reactors were not yet fueled for their upcoming Arctic voyage.
Three days after Energy Secretary Rick Perry directed his staff to find ways to give a boost to coal and nuclear power, the rival wind industry kicked its lobbying response into action. The American Wind Energy Association would tap allies in Congress willing to weigh in with Perry and buy advertisements on "news channels closely followed by the Trump administration," according to a memo its leader sent to board members.
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In this March 23, 2016 photo, a worker checks the radiation level on barrels in a storage of nuclear waste taken from the 4th unit destroyed by the 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Chernobyl, Ukraine. A n... .
In this March 23, 2016 photo, a worker checks the radiation level on barrels in a storage of nuclear waste taken from the 4th unit destroyed by the 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Chernobyl, Ukraine. A n... .
The legislation lifts a requirement that nuclear facilities be placed into service by the end of 2020 in order to receive the 1.8 cent per kilowatt hour tax credit. It would also allow government-owned utilities and nonprofit electric coops to receive the credit and give them the power to transfer credits to other partners on the facilities, such as the projects' designers.
Energy Sec. Rick Perry toured the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant in Japan, just six years after one of the worst reactor meltdowns in history. Perry visited the crippled nuclear reactor Sunday as part of his first trip to Asia as head of the Energy Department.
Richard Bryan, who fought the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository as Nevada's governor and in the U.S. Senate, says the Trump administration wants to make a down payment on restarting work on the site 100 miles from Las Vegas. He said the president's $120 million budget request is a sign that "very clearly they want to restart the project."
Workers staged a 400-foot-long piece of heavy plastic on Friday along the partially collapsed waste tunnel at the PUREX plant at the Hanford nuclear reservation. The tunnel is expected to be covered on Saturday.
Federal officials said there was no sign that any radioactive material had leaked after crews discovered that a 20-foot section of a 100-foot long tunnel - containing rail cars filled with nuclear waste - had caved in . Henderson said all non-essential employees north of the site's Wye Barricade and outside the 200 East Area were asked to stay home Wednesday.
America's fleet of nuclear reactors is rapidly aging, posing a serious problem for the country, according to a Friday report from the Energy Information Administration EIA's report notes that nearly all nuclear plants in the U.S. started operating between 1970 and 1990. This means they're aging fast and will need to renew their original 40-year operating licenses before 2050.
The self-organized Citizens Oversight group rallied residents' support to move San Onofre spent nuclear fuel off site as soon as possible. Information on the dangers of the nuclear waste and delays in moving it were shared at a town hall meeting May 4. A civil lawsuit by Citizens Oversight challenged state Coastal Commission approval of a permit to move the nuclear waste from its on-site cooling pools into in-ground storage containers.