Nuclear energy policy

Nuclear Energy: United States Policies and Considerations

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-52

  Holt, Mark ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; ENERGY POLICY; EXPLOSIONS; FUEL STORAGE; FUELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; HYDROGEN STORAGE; INVESTMENTS; LANDFORMS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR LICENSING; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; PLANT EXPANSION; PUBLIC POLICY; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; TAXATION; TSUNAMIS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR SAFETY REGULATION; NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACTS; NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROLIFERATION; PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; UNDERGROUND REPOSITORIES;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 84946898185     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (25)

1. Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, Draft Report to the Secretary of Energy, July 29, 2011, http://brc.gov/index.php?q=announcement/brc-releases-their-draftfull- commission-report.
2. Oral Testimony of Energy Secretary Steven Chu at the House Energy and Commerce Committee - As Prepared for Delivery, March 16, 2011, http://www.energy
3. Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly, Net Generation by Energy Source, April 2011, http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/electricity
4. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Information Digest 2008-2009, NUREG-1350, Vol. 20, August 2008, p. 32, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1350/v20/ sr1350v20.pdf.
5. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, "In the Matter of Tennessee Valley Authority (Bellefonte Nuclear Plant Units 1 and 2)," 74 Federal Register 10969, March 13, 2009.
6. Tennessee Valley Authority, "TVA Board Implements Vision," press release, August 18, 2011, http://www.tva.com/news/releases/julsep1 1/board_meeting/index.htm.
7. Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly, Net Generation by Energy Source, April 2011, http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/electricity.Netgeneration excludes electricity used for power plant operation.
8. Energy Information Administration, "U.S. Nuclear Generation and Generating Capacity," http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/nuc_generation/gensum.html.
9. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Fact Sheet on Reactor License Renewal, August 8, 2011, http://www.nrc.gov/ reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/fs-reactor-license-renewal.html.
10. Energy Information Administration, Nuclear Power: 12 percent of America's Generating Capacity, 20 percent of the Electricity, July 17, 2003, at http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/ nuclear/page/analysis/nuclearpower.html.
11. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, New Reactors, http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors. html.
12. Southern Company, Construction Video and Photos, http://www.southerncompany.com/ nuclearenergy/photos.aspx.
13. NRC, "New Reactor Licensing Applications, Schedules by Calendar Year," October 11, 2011, http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/new-licensing-files/new-rx-licensing-app-legend. pdf.
14. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, "Emergency Preparedness & Response," website, http:// www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/ emerg-preparedness.html.
15. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, "Final Rule: Enhancements to Emergency Preparedness Regulations," SECY-1 1- 0053, April 8, 2011, http://www.nrc.gov/reading
16. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, "Backgrounder on the Three Mile Island Accident," March 15, 2011, http://www.nrc.gov/reading
17. Evelyn O. Talbott et al., "Long Term Follow-Up of the Residents of the Three Mile Island Accident Area: 1979- 1998," Environmental Health Perspectives, published online October 30, 2002, at http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2003/ 5662/abstract.html.
18. Public Citizen Energy Program, "The Myth of Nuclear Safety" http://www.citizen.org/cmep/ energy nuclear_power_plants/reactor_safety/articles.cfm?ID=4454.
19. For more information about the NRC reactor oversight process, see http://www.nrc.gov/ NRR/ OVERSIGHT/ASSESS/index.html.
20. Marvin S. Fertel, Statement for the Record to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senate, Nuclear Energy Institute, March 18, 2009, p. 9, http://energy.senate.gov/ public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Testimony&Hearing_ID=f25ddd10-c1f5-9e2e-528e-c4321cca4c1b&Witness_ID=4de5e2df-53fe-49ba-906e-9b69d3674e41.
21. Department of Energy, "800 to 1000 New Jobs Coming to Piketon," press release, July 28, 2009, http://www.lgprogram.energy
22. Maureen Conley, "DOE Finds $2 Billion More for SWU Plant Loan Guarantees," NuclearFuel, April 5, 2010, p. 3.
23. Department of Energy, "DOE Offers Conditional Loan Guarantee for Front End Nuclear Facility in Idaho," press release, May 20, 2010, http://www.energy
24. Maureen Conley, "Congress 'Frustrated' by Inaction on USEC Loan Guarantee," NuclearFuel, October 31, 2011, p. 8.
25. Yanmei Xie, "Cheap Natural Gas, Cost-Share Disagreement Jeopardize NGNP," Nucleonics Week, April 28, 2011, p. 1.