Items Tagged with 'US Energy Dept'

Published May 1 in the Federal Register with a 42-day comment, the proposed Part 57 rule outlines a “streamlined, risk-informed and flexible licensing pathway” NRC claims could save up to $11.8 billion and shorten construction permit and operating license timelines to one year or less.

State environment agency also ordered a revision of disposal permit for the site's underground repository to increase the volume of Los Alamos waste sent there. 

Three companies gain ten-year task orders to create new supply chains and innovations to manufacture low-enriched uranium and high-assay low-enriched uranium for nuclear power generation.

Push for larger federal role to expedite grid connections is set to finalize by April 2026, but states and utilities worry about power overload, reliability and ratepayer cost hikes and want more time to study impacts—as administration moves to curb state role in AI regulation.

Bechtel, Aecon, Sargent & Lundy, BWX Technologies and Samsung are among firms teamed to construct the first SMRs in Tennessee and Michigan by early 2030s.

ARCHES hub in California and the Pacific Northwest hub filed appeals to DOE over loss of more than $2 billion in grants, with legal action possible, but they intend to press on with project development.

U.S. Energy Dept. and contractor Bechtel National officially start up giant waste processing plant on Oct. 15 to meet consent decree deadline, after design and construction investment of more than 20 years and $30 billion.

U.S. Dept. of Transportation issued new DBE rule without comment and announced review of New York DBE practices.

The Trump administration proposes to revoke the Obama-era endangerment finding related to greenhouse gas impacts on climate change damage—and along with it, eased vehicle tailpipe emissions regulations. 

Developer Oklo said it hired Kiewit unit as EPC contractor at Idaho federal site to demonstrate 75-MW facility as a future power source for data center customers and others.