House Energy & Commerce Committee to Vote on Various Nuclear-Related Bills ECA Staff | July 11, 2018
Tomorrow, July 12, 2018 at 10:00 AM ET, the House Energy & Commerce Committee will consider a slate of 14 bills and resolutions, including the following:
H.R. 6140, Advanced Nuclear Fuel Availability Act: This bill, sponsored by Rep.
Bill Flores (R-TX), directs the Secretary of Energy to establish and carry out a program to support the availability of high assay low enriched uranium (HA-LEU) for domestic commercial use. HA-LEU is the fuel type needed by many advanced, generation-IV nuclear reactor designs.
A live webcast of the Committee meeting will be available here. U.S. Department of Energy Provides Nearly $20 Million for Domestic Advanced Nuclear Technology Projects U.S. Department of Energy | July 10, 2018 U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry today announced today the Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine domestic projects to receive nearly $20 million in funding for cost-shared research and development for advanced nuclear technologies. These awards are through the Office of Nuclear Energy’s (NE) funding opportunity announcement (FOA) U.S. Industry Opportunities for Advanced Nuclear Technology Development and are the second group selected under this solicitation. The
first group was announced on April 27, 2018.
STORAGE & DISPOSITIONTrump's SCOTUS Nominee Issued Opinion on Yucca Mountain ECA Staff | July 11, 2018
The White House's pick to fill the recent Supreme Court vacancy, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, previously issued the majority opinion in a 2013 United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruling that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was "flouting the law" when it stopped work on the license review for the proposed nuclear waste deep geologic repository at Yucca Mountain.
The case, which was originally filed by Aiken County, SC against the NRC, argued that the Court
should order the NRC to comply with the statutory mandate required the Commission to act on DOE's long-pending license application to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. In a 2-1 decision, the court sided with Aiken County.
"The President may not decline to follow a statutory mandate or prohibition simply because of policy objections," Kavanaugh wrote. "Of course, if Congress appropriates no money for a statutorily
mandated program, the Executive obviously cannot move forward. But absent a lack of funds or a claim of unconstitutionality that has not been rejected by final Court order, the Executive must abide by statutory mandates and prohibitions."
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