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This article summarizes Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) activities relating to new nuclear power plant initiatives. The time frame covered by this report is Jun 1, 2006 to Jun 30, 2007. Momentum in NRC activity related to new plant initiatives, spurred by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 incentives, continues. Activities of the NRC in support of, and preparation for, these new nuclear power plant initiatives fall into three major categories: 1. activities related to Early Site Permits, 2. activities related to Design Certification, and 3. activities in preparation for reviewing new combined license applications. In Environmental Law and Policy Center v. NRC, several environmental groups intervened in the Exelon Early Site Permit proceeding for the Clinton plant before the Atomic Safety...
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This notice announces a meeting of the (NEAC). Federal Advisory Committee Act requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
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-- Providing a steam surface condenser for capacity expansion of a U.S. ethylene plant and a vacuum system for the upgrade of a refinery in China
-- Supplying replacement equipment for nuclear energy facilities in the U.S. and South Korea
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This notice announces a meeting of the (NEAC). Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 94-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
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U.S. Supreme Court METROPOLITAN EDISON v. PEOPLE VS. NUCLEAR ENERGY, 460 U.S. 766 (1983) 460 U.S. 766
METROPOLITAN EDISON CO. ET AL. v. PEOPLE AGA...
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This notice announces a meeting of the (NEAC). The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. Law 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
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Pursuant to Section 14(a)(2)(A) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, App. 2, and Section 102-3.65(a), Title 41, Code of Federal Regulations, and following consultation with the Committee Management Secretariat, General Services Administration, notice is hereby given that the will be renewed for a two-year period. The Committee will provide advice to the Department of Energy on complex science and technical issues that arise in the planning, managing, and implementation of DOE's nuclear energy program. Additionally, the renewal of the NEAC has been determined to be essential to conduct business of the Department of Energy's and to be the in the public interest in connection with the performance of duties imposed upon the Department of Energy, by law an...
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The Relatively Moderate Impact of the Nuclear Accident at Fukushima Daichii
WASHINGTON, June 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A June survey of private and public sector public policy elites in energy policy shows that the Fukushima nuclear accident has had little effect on the level of support for nuclear power in the United Sates.
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Even as governments around the world scrambled to freeze or review their nuclear energy programs, Turkey announced the imminent start to construction of the first of its own nuclear plants.
Struggling through throngs of shoppers on the pedestrian Istiklal Avenue last weekend, a couple of thousand marchers with their anti- nuclear placards did not seem to be getting anywhere. "No to nuclear plants," the protesters chanted, banging on drums to make themselves heard. But few in the crowd swirling around them appeared to be listening.