ECA Update: Local communities voice concern over LANL draft RFP; Sen. Graham weighs in on VC Summer project; & more

Published: Mon, 08/14/17

ECA UPDATE
Aug 14, 2017
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CONTRACTING & ACQUISITION
Coalition Of LANL Communities Board Voices Deep Concern Over RFP For Lab Management Contract
Los Alamos Daily Post | August 13, 2017

The Draft Solicitation for the Los Alamos National Laboratory Site Management and Operating Contract as presently proposed has generated expressions of alarm among members of the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities who voiced their concerns at a meeting of their Board of Directors Friday in Santa Fe.

The Coalition, which was founded in 2011, is comprised of Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Taos and Santa Fe Counties as well as the Cities of Santa Fe and Espanola, the Town of Taos, and Ohkay Owingeh and Taos Pueblos. Los Alamos County is represented by Councilor Chris Chandler who is Secretary of the Board of Directors.

Board members wrote to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in July expressing concern that contract language in the Draft RFP is a “great deviation from previous acquisitions and the current contract”.

 
COMMERCIAL NUCLEAR 
Graham Urges Extension Of Nuclear Production Tax Credit
Associated Press | August 14, 2017

WASHINGTON (AP) — Proponents of nuclear power are pushing to revive a failed project to build two reactors in South Carolina, arguing that the demise of the $14 billion venture could signal doom for an industry that supplies one-fifth of the nation’s electricity.

Even though the nation’s 99 commercial nuclear reactors supply about 20 percent of U.S. electricity, no new nuclear plant has been built from scratch in more than 30 years. Supporters were alarmed when two South Carolina utilities halted construction on a pair of reactors that once were projected to usher in a new generation of nuclear power to provide reliable, cost-effective, carbon-free electricity for decades.

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