The Federal Government’s Responsibilities and Liabilities Under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act

Statement of Kim Cawley, Chief, Natural and Physical Resources Cost Estimates Unit, Congressional Budget Office before the Committee on the Budget U.S. House of Representatives, July 16, 2009
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=10456

Nuclear Waste Disposal : Alternatives to Yucca Mountain

Congressional Research Service
http://opencrs.com/document/R40202
[From summary]  Congress designated Yucca Mountain, NV, as the nation’s sole candidate site for a permanent high-level nuclear waste repository in 1987, following years of controversy over the site-selection process. Over the strenuous objections of the State of Nevada, the Department of Energy (DOE) submitted a license application for the proposed Yucca Mountain [...]

Carbon Control in the U.S. Electricity Sector: Key Implementation Uncertainties

Congressional Research Service
http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results/24486/Carbon_Control_in_the_US_Electricity_Sector_Key_Implementation_Uncertainties.html
[PEN-e posting] This Report by the Congressional Research Service (7-5700) finds that from the policy research and technical studies that substantially reducing CO2 emissions in the U.S. electricity sector over the next few decades would likely require every key carbon mitigation measure at the nation’s disposal. However, it is also clear that significant [...]

Spent Nuclear Fuel : A Trash Heap Deadly for 250,000 Years or a Renewable Energy Source?

Scientific American online (January 28, 2009) / David Biello
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=nuclear-waste-lethal-trash-or-renewable-energy-source
Scientific American takes a long look at nuclear waste and the options for recycling it, which will be a big part of the Energy Department’s to-do list in the next administration. [WSJ Environmental Capital posting]

Managing Risks From a Nuclear Energy Revival : Presentation

Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Matthew Bunn
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/18791/managing_risks_from_a_nuclear_energy_revival.html
From a seminar presented at the “Solutions Summit,” in New York, NY, on January 12, 2009.

Revisions to the Protective Action Guides Manual for Radiological Incidents : Review Draft

US EPA
PDF: Revisions to the Protective Action Guides Manual for Radiological Incidents
[From Commondreams.org press release] – Late last week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved to dramatically relax public protections against radioactive releases, according to the Committee to Bridge the Gap (CBG) and [...]

Release of Radioactive Materials and Buildings from Regulatory Control

OECD / Nuclear Energy Agency of France
http://www.nea.fr/html/rwm/reports/2008/nea6403-regulatory.pdf
[From foreward]  This status report presents the results of a questionnaire survey undertaken by the WPDD during 2006. The aim of the survey was to obtain an overview of current radiological clearance practices (i.e. release from the relevant atomic law) for materials and buildings. Information was collected from nine [...]

Excess Uranium Inventory Management Plan

US DOE
http://www.nuclear.gov/pdfFiles/inventory_plan_unclassified.pdf
[From press release]  The Plan highlights DOE’s ongoing efforts to enhance national security and promote a healthy domestic nuclear infrastructure through the efficient and cost-effective management of its excess uranium inventories. The Department has a significant inventory of uranium that is excess to national defense needs and is expensive both to manage and secure.
The [...]

Business Risks and Costs of New Nuclear Power

ClimateProgress.org / by Craig A. Severance
http://climateprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/nuclear-costs-2009.pdf
A new study puts the generation costs for power from new nuclear plants at from 25 to 30 cents per kilowatt-hour  — triple current U.S. electricity rates!
This staggering price is far higher than the cost of a variety of carbon-free renewable power sources available today — and 10 times the [...]

Peak Energy and the Limits to China’s Economic Growth : Prospect of Energy Supply and Economic Growth from Now to 2050

Political Economy Research Institute / by Minqi Li
http://www.peri.umass.edu/236/hash/40472d5663/publication/329/
[Abstract]  This working paper evaluates the prospects for China’s energy supply and its impact on economic growth between 2008 and 2050. After considering China’s domestic potential of coal, oil, and gas production, the potential of energy imports from the rest of the world, as well as potential developments [...]