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NRC allows closure of Yucca Mountain nuclear dump - AP

| admin
Yucca Mountain Politics

Commission split opens path for licensing board to shut down nuclear waste site

Nevada GOP candidates for House seat vie for position in debate - TheDC

| Alexis Levinson
Nevada Second Congressional District

Candidates for House seat aim to impress Central Committee, which will choose nominee

Inspector general: Chairman withheld information in Yucca shutdown - TheDC

| John Rossomando
Yucca Mountain Politics

Controversial nuclear waste decision has been anything but transparent, report says

Obama may lack authority to have closed Yucca Mountain - TheDC

| John Rossomando

‘We think it is illegal for the NRC and for Obama through the secretary of energy to stop funding Yucca Mountain’

A safe place for waste

| Rep. Joe Pitts

In February of this year, President Obama announced his support for billions of dollars in loan guarantees for two new nuclear reactors in Georgia. This is the first nuclear power plant project to break ground in nearly three decades

Rhetoric flies up, voters’ thoughts remain below

| Elizabeth Crum

The remarkable story of the Republican U.S. Senate primary race in Nevada is part comedy, part tragedy, and now, a piece of political history. Shakespeare himself could not have penned a better drama, nor set before us a more fascinating general election battle for Act II of this extraordinary tale

Southern states blast DoE on nuclear waste decision - TheDC

| Paul Conner

More than 40 officials from South Carolina and Georgia protest unfulfilled promises to move nuclear waste site to Nevada

Nuclear energy: Is Obama the answer?

| Jill Sigal

Hey, did you hear about the President? He’s for nuclear energy! — Really? You mean the way he’s for offshore drilling?

America’s nuclear option at home

| Mark McIntosh

In the president’s State of the Union speech and subsequent 2011 proposed budget, he threw his environmental community supporters a significant curve ball by proposing a significant increase in financial incentives to build more nuclear power plants. The mere mention of nuclear power during the speech was a thinly veiled attempt to bring Republicans on board to support his presently unpopular cap-and-trade proposal languishing in the Senate. The question is whether Republicans can and should trust that the president is sincere on this issue.

Obama set to give loan for nuclear power plant - AP

| Pat McMahon

Obama Administration set to give out the first loan to build a nuclear power plant in the U.S. in almost thirty years

Obama focuses in on nuclear energy - AP

| AJ

President Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation.