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Saturday, April 15, 2017
Apple May Be Coming to Toshiba’s Rescue
Apple May Be Coming to Toshiba’s Rescue
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-14/apple-said-to-consider-helping-toshiba-with-chip-unit-investment
Will Apple's Overseas Billions Help Westinghouse Complete New Nuclear Plants?
Will Apple's Overseas Billions Help Westinghouse Complete New Nuclear Plants?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rodadams/2017/04/15/will-apples-overseas-billions-help-westinghouse-complete-new-nuclear-plants/#537a43f119bf
Friday, April 14, 2017
The Energy Collective Daily: The Coal-Free 2degreesC Scenario: Within Reach and Chaper Than Told by IEA
- The Coal-Free 2°C Scenario: Within Reach, and Cheaper Than Told by IEA
- As Oil and Gas Industry Goes Big in the Permian, Efforts to Tackle Emissions Will Be Telling
- Ah, Vienna! Passive House Gets Active on Energy Efficiency Finance
- Artificial Intelligence in Energy and Utilities [INFOGRAPHIC]
- Gulf of Mexico Crude Oil Production, Already at Annual High, Expected to Keep Increasing
- UN Habitat Report Highlights Global Impact of LEED
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Cost of Westinghouse collapse turns up heat on Scana, Southern
Cost of Westinghouse collapse turns up heat on Scana, Southern
https://www.eenews.net/energywire/2017/04/14/stories/1060053088
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Friday, April 14, 2017
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Lawmakers push back on Yucca Mountain
Lawmakers push back on Yucca Mountain
http://www.rgj.com/story/news/politics/2017/04/13/lawmakers-push-back-yucca-mountain/305137001/
Here's America's Plan for Nuking its Enemies, Including North Korea
Here's America's Plan for Nuking its Enemies, Including North Korea
When America says "all the options are on the table" when responding to the reclusive Communist country, Operations Plan 8010 is the literal nuclear one.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/9056/heres-americas-plan-for-nuking-its-enemies-including-north-korea?utm_source=Federation+of+American+Scientists&utm_campaign=bfb5171c64-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_56a7496199-bfb5171c64-199338577
U.S. Drops ‘Mother of All Bombs’ on ISIS Target in Afghanistan
U.S. Drops ‘Mother of All Bombs’ on ISIS Target in Afghanistan
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/u-s-targets-isis-afghanistan-large-non-nuclear-bomb-n746106?utm_source=Federation+of+American+Scientists&utm_campaign=bfb5171c64-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_56a7496199-bfb5171c64-199338577
Climate Change: Legal Issues, & More from CRS
Climate Change: Legal Issues, & More from CRS
Federal laws and regulations underlying the U.S. government’s
approach to climate change, and litigation regarding their scope and
implementation, are discussed in a new report from the Congressional
Research Service. See U.S. Climate Change Regulation and Litigation: Selected Legal Issues, April 3, 2017.
Legendary Climate Scientist Likes a GOP Proposal on Global Warming
Legendary Climate Scientist Likes a GOP Proposal on Global Warming
James Hansen, the “father of climate change awareness,” wants the same carbon fee–and-dividend strategy proposed by Republicans
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/legendary-climate-scientist-likes-a-gop-proposal-on-global-warming/
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Nuclear Roundup April 13, 2017
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A compilation of quality nuclear policy news published on the Web, around the world.
Iran Nuclear Deal Iran’s missile tests not linked to UN resolution on nuclear deal: Qassemi http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/ United States Walden, Upton, and Shimkus Ask POTUS to Fill Nuclear Regulatory Commission Vacancies http://energycommerce.house. International North Korea May Be Preparing Its 6th Nuclear Test https://www.nytimes.com/ China’s nuclear get-out clause over defence of North Korea http://www.scmp.com/news/ Russian nuclear-capable planes fly by Japan: report http://thehill.com/policy/ Non-proliferation politics https://www.thenews.com.pk/ Ms. Mary Alice Hayward, Deputy Director General of IAEA Management, Supports the United Nations - Nuclear Young Generation (UN-NYG) https://www.iaea.org/ New Web-Based System Streamlines Safeguards Information Exchange With IAEA https://www.iaea.org/ General Interest The Week the World Almost Ended http://www.slate.com/articles/ Ending nuclear lawlessness http://www.thehindu.com/ Contained Nuclear Fusion On Earth Isn't Just Possible -- It's Been Done Repeatedly https://www.forbes.com/sites/ How to Make the Nuclear Button Safer https://www.nytimes.com/2017/
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Regulators hold hearing on SC nuke project amid bankruptcy
Regulators hold hearing on SC nuke project amid bankruptcy
A utility that co-owns
nuclear reactors under construction in South Carolina is set to explain
to state regulators where the project stands following the bankruptcy of
its contractor. …
Continue Reading
http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2017/04/nuclear-power-regulators-hold-hearing-on-sc-nuke-project-amid-bankruptcy.html?cmpid=enl_pennenergy_pennenergydailypower_2017-04-13&email_address=micheletkearney@gmail.com&eid=288118515&bid=1723604
EM Update April 13, 2017
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DOE Highlights Collaborations at House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus
Rep.
Joe Wilson of South Carolina addresses the audience as the four
panelists listen during the event for the House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Officials with EM and other DOE
missions highlighted their partnerships to clean up sites and manage
and dispose of wastes at an event for the House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus
on April 5.
Speaking to an audience of more than 100 people, Acting EM Assistant
Secretary Sue Cange noted the interconnections between the cleanup
program and other DOE organizations. She said her priority is to improve
collaborations and strengthen those partnerships.
“First and foremost, it is extremely important to recognize the
important and enduring missions the Department has in the areas of
national security, science and nuclear energy,” she said. “It is also
very important to recognize the role the Office of Environmental
Management plays in ensuring and enabling those important Departmental
missions.”
James
McConnell, Associate Administrator for Safety, Infrastructure and
Operations at the National Nuclear Security Administration, speaks
during the panel discussion as Acting EM Assistant Secretary Sue Cange
listens.
The four panelists described a DOE ecosystem in which EM intersects
with a variety of missions, providing valuable site cleanup, technical
expertise on waste management, pathways for waste storage and disposal,
and decontamination and demolition of aging excess facilities.
James McConnell, Associate Administrator for Safety, Infrastructure and Operations at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), said the agency has broad interactions with EM.
“Our mission, by its very nature, generates some amount of radioactive
and mixed waste, and if we can’t safely stage, store, transport and
ultimately dispose of that waste, then at some point we would have to
stop generating it, which means at some point we would have to
fundamentally stop our mission,” McConnell said.
Acting EM Assistant Secretary Sue Cange discusses EM’s collaborations with other DOE mission.
Johnny
Moore, Manager of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Site Office in the
Office of Science, right, talks about the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
mission. At left is Rick Provencher, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Idaho Site Operations in the Office of Nuclear Energy.
“It’s critical that we have those outlets,” added Johnny Moore, Manager of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Site Office in the Office of Science.
“Those are critical to our mission because if we are going to continue
to learn and make discoveries in doing nuclear research we have to have
the ability to have outlets for those materials.
“EM is needed to perform cleanup work of their facilities and of all
the facilities that we have in our program operations,” Moore said.
Rick
Provencher, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Idaho Site Operations in the
Office of Nuclear Energy, talks about the partnership between EM and
the Office of Nuclear Energy.
Rick Provencher, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Idaho Site Operations in the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), said EM and NE have enjoyed a productive partnership at the site for more than a decade.
“It’s really been a team sport in Idaho for many years,” Provencher
said. In 2005, EM and NE decided to split the contract for the Idaho
site, allowing the NE-affiliated Idaho National Laboratory to focus on
science while cleanup contractors overseen by EM focused on
remediation.
Rep.
Dan Newhouse of Washington state speaks as panelists James McConnell,
Associate Administrator for Safety, Infrastructure and Operations at the
National Nuclear Security Administration, and Acting EM Assistant
Secretary Sue Cange listen.
Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico speaks to the audience of more than 100 people.
“EM, they are the experts,” Provencher said. “They have the treatment
systems and the know-how to do that kind of work, and by them doing
that, it allows the laboratory to focus on important research and
development work that we’re responsible for.”
A challenge common to each of the programs is the management and
disposition of excess facilities. A DOE report to Congress in December
counted 2,349 such facilities across the Department complex. An
additional 1,000 may be designated excess in the next 10 years.
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann of Tennessee speaks at the event for the House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus.
Cange previously managed EM operations at Oak Ridge, where NNSA, the
Office of Science and NE each have a significant presence. She used that
site’s collaborative approach to compiling one set of data on excess
facilities across programs as an example of agency partnership.
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann of Tennessee, the caucus chairman, said he was
encouraged by the interactions among the DOE missions.
“It is our duty to the American people to get these sites cleaned up,”
he said. “My commitment is steadfast to see that we get these legacy
sites cleaned up.”
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