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The Biden Administration opposes the use of Yucca Mountain for the storage of used nuclear fuel and is committed to developing "safe and workable" alternatives, US President Joe Biden's nominee for the position of energy secretary has said. Jennifer Granholm made her remarks at a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing to consider her nomination, which was held on 27 January.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 30 January 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Biden-nominee-confirms-opposition-to-Yucca-Mountai
Japan said on 1 April that it will give up more of its highly enriched uranium (HEU) in a bid to tighten control over unused nuclear material. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington of a new plan to remove HEU from the Kyoto University Critical Assembly in Osaka Prefecture, in addition to a similar pledge made in the previous meeting of the biennial summit in 2014.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 05 April 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsjapan-to-transfer-more-nuclear-material-to-usa-4857089
US President Barack Obama wants to scrap the Department of Energy's project at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina that was designed to take plutonium no longer needed for nuclear weapons and turn it into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 10 February 2016
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Obama-seeks-to-terminate-MOX-project-at-Savannah-R
Under the US fiscal 2016 Omnibus Appropriations Act signed into law by President Barack Obama on 18 December, nuclear energy programmes will receive $986m in fiscal year 2016 (ending 30 September), an increase of $80m, or 9%, over the budget request.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 01 January 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-funding-increased-in-us-appropriations-act-4766766