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The Senate voted to pass bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, EPW Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) that will provide a major boost to the future of nuclear energy in America. The Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy (ADVANCE) Act, which the senators introduced in March 2023, passed as part of the Fire Grants and Safety Act (S.870) by a vote of 88-2, and will now head to the president’s desk to be signed into law... #SenateVote #NuclearEnergy #ADVANCEAct #CleanEnergy

The Senate voted to pass bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, EPW Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) that will provide a major boost to the future of nuclear energy in America. The Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy (ADVANCE) Act, which the senators introduced in March 2023, passed as part of the Fire Grants and Safety Act (S.870) by a vote of 88-2, and will now head to the president’s desk to be signed into law... #SenateVote #NuclearEnergy #ADVANCEAct #CleanEnergy

🎧🎙️NEW EPISODE! https://hubs.li/Q02Ch_V70 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) was established in 1977 with two key missions: to carry out defense responsibilities relating to nuclear weapons, and to bring together under one department the "loosely knit amalgamation" of various energy projects which were, at the time, scattered across the United States government. The Department of Energy Organization Act created the Department to better coordinate national energy strategy in the US. Since then, the DOE's responsibilities have evolved with the challenges that the country has faced. Today, one key dimension of the DOE's role in national energy security is supporting low-carbon energy production and carbon management projects. This role includes advancing carbon dioxide removal, or CDR, as the U.S. will likely need to remove at least a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year to meet its net-zero goals. We spoke with Rory Jacobson, the acting division director for carbon dioxide removal in the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management - or FECM - to better understand the DOE's role in advancing CDR.

*Tony Blair DESTROYS the Tories on Nuclear Power* No, that’s not my headline, that’s the headline of the #NewLabour YouTube channel on the video clip below. Video caption: “Every nuclear plant in the country was planned and funded by a Labour govt aside from Sizewell B.” YouTube channel: “New Labour” Subscribers: 3.6k ‘Rustle me up a nuclear power station’ https://lnkd.in/g2yuNTcM House of Commons, 15 Nov 2006 95 seconds of real energy This clip shows then-Prime Minister Tony Blair at the dispatch box, skewering then-Leader of the Opposition David Cameron, in The Queen’s Speech Debate, 2006 Historical perspective Interestingly, the Labour-Conservative roles adopted by #Albanese and #Dutton in #Australia today are the reverse of the policy positions adopted by #Blair and #Cameron in #Britain in 2006. The value of #RealOptions was understood by Blair and U.K. Labour in 2006. I was living in London 2003-10, working as a consultant in energy economics. I did not understand it then. My views at that time were in many respects similar to the main arguments we hear from the anti-nuclear movement in Australia today: takes too long, costs too much, business isn’t interested. (And whaddabout the waste, eh, eh?) #nuclear #energy #policy #KeepingTheLightsOn #AustralianGreens #ALP #Teals #LNP #KAP #JLN #EngAust #AIE #ANA #ATSE

We're excited to have our representatives, Frank Nelms and Sean Lawrie participating in the session titled “Leveraging Federal Legislation and Programs to Benefit Nuclear Including the Inflation Reduction Act and DOE Loan Guarantee Program – Explaining the Federal Regulations and Opportunities” at the American Nuclear Society UWC next week. If you are attending, be sure to join as they explore how tax credits and federal funding can support the growth of the nuclear industry and much more. #UWC #ANSUWC

What’s replaying over and over again in my head from Kebaowek First Nation’s Federal Appeal over the last two days is that Canadian Nuclear Laboratories' (CNL) proposal for the Near-Surface Disposal Facility would be tantamount to an extinguishment of Kebaowek’s right to access this land (their unsurrendered, unceded land), in perpetuity. And moreover, what's really bouncing around in my head as a blatant ideological concern is that they argue that since the land that CNL is situated on dispossessed rights holders since the 1940s when there was no inkling of procedural justice-- no consultation, no FPIC or UNDRIP or UNDA, or any interest in consent-- that this effectively permanent extinguishment of rights to access traditional land and territory is a minimal impact. Let that sink in. Hear from Chief Lance Haymond why Kebaowek called for the Federal review in the link below: #landback #FPIC #UNDRIP #environmentaljustice #nuclearcolonialism

The passing of the ADVANCE Act should really help us get more reactors online, more quickly, having a huge, positive impact on the grid. INL breaks down some great information on their site about the impact nuclear energy can have on our increasing demands: https://lnkd.in/epfkhwCA

A lot to unpack here. First, it’s not “NRC plans”. It’s the licensee who applied for the licenses. Second, the president for NRC’s ability to license a facility is counter to the mission, authority, and regulatory process. It will be interesting to see how this plays out on appeal. Lastly to be clear, the NRC’s licensing of a PRIVATE ISFSI is not in any way connected to the Federal Government commitment to address SNF under the NWPA. Talk amongst yourselves!

We just took a big step forward in building more reactors in the U.S. President Biden recently signed the ADVANCE Act into law, which is expected to speed up the licensing and deployment of new reactors. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Mike Goff breaks down this latest legislative win for our domestic nuclear sector: https://bit.ly/3WdTysu