Washington DC -April 21- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has determined that an inspection finding at the St. Lucie nuclear power plant related to the failure to identify and correct quality and design issues which allowed air into a Unit 1 cooling water system is “yellow.”

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Washington DC - March 9 - U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced selections for the award of approximately $40 million in total for conceptual design and planning work for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP).

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Washington DC - March 4 - The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, established to provide recommendations for developing a safe, long-term solution to managing the Nation’s used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste, will hold its first meeting in Washington, D.C.

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Washington DC - February 17 - President Obama announced that the Department of Energy has offered conditional commitments for a total of $8.33 billion in loan guarantees for the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors at a plant in Burke, Georgia.

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Washington DC - January 25 - Despite assuring the State of Vermont for more than a year that it had no buried pipes carrying radioactivity, Entergy Nuclear’s Vermont Yankee reactor has revealed it is leaking radioactive tritium, almost certainly from underground pipes that it now admits do exist.

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Washington DC - December 23 - U.S. Department of Energy(DOE) Secretary Steven Chu outlined the Department’s plans to invest up to $366 million to establish and operate three new Energy Innovation Hubs focused on accelerating research and development in three key energy areas.

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