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Four Nuclear Policy Issues to Watch
Congress recently began a two week recess, when it returns on April 29 we expect several nuclear issues to heat up.
- Appropriations:
Both the House and Senate Energy & Water Appropriations
Subcommittees will begin marking up their bills in the next few weeks.
- Nuclear Waste Legislation:
It is expected that the, "Big 4" - Senators Alexander (R-TN), Feinstein
(D-CA), Murkowski (R-AK), and Manchin (D-WV) will reintroduce the
Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act sometime within the next few weeks.
- Yucca Mountain:
"This year, we should resolve the more than 30-year stalemate over how to dispose of used nuclear fuel," quoted Senator Alexander
(R-TN) earlier this year. Alexander chairs the Senate Appropriations
Subcommittee on Energy & Water Development and many in the DC
nuclear policy community are expecting a full Senate vote on Yucca
Mountain funding when the Energy and Water bill reaches the floor this
summer.
- NELA:
A hearing on the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act is expected to take place
at the end of April in front of the Senate Energy & Natural
Resources Committee, moving the bill one step closer to a Committee
business meeting vote and passage.
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