(WASHINGTON, D.C.)—Today, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall and Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs for the Republic of Korea Cho Tae-yul announced the launch of the High Level Bilateral Commission (HLBC). In their roles as HLBC Co-Chairs, Deputy Secretary Sherwood-Randall and Vice Minister Cho also announced that the first meeting of the HLBC will… Keep reading →
For the first time in history, workers will complete the demolition and cleanup of an entire gaseous diffusion complex. The four-story, 383,000-square-foot K-27 Building is the final building to be demolished in the East Tennessee Technology Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. K-27 and East Tennessee Technology Park’s other facilities — K-29, K-33, K-31 and K-25… Keep reading →
Washington, DC — Today, the New Mexico Environment Department, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its contractors signed two settlement agreements to resolve the State of New Mexico Environment Department’s claims against DOE and its contractors related to the February 2014 incidents at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad and the associated… Keep reading →
As you may well have seen from the extensive media coverage this weekend, following certification by the IAEA that the Government of Iran had met its obligations under the P5+1 Nuclear Agreement, the United States and European Union have now relaxed substantial portions of their sanctions regimes against Iran.
The EU and UN terminate most of their sanctions on Iran, while the US implements more limited changes to its longstanding embargo.
Implementation Day is a milestone in the effort to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program is exclusively peaceful in nature by blocking potential pathways to a bomb. As a result of years of negotiations and months of preparations for the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran’s breakout time has increased from just… Keep reading →
Just hours before Pyongyang claimed to have tested a hydrogen bomb, Iran unveiled another underground facility and showed off North Korean-designed long-range missiles. Evidence of North Korea’s January 6 nuclear test is still being analyzed, but already there is doubt about whether it was a powerful hydrogen bomb, as Pyongyang has claimed. Rather, it was… Keep reading →
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected a Battelle Memorial Institute-led team to drill a test borehole of over 16,000 feet into a crystalline basement rock formation near Rugby, North Dakota. This is an important step in exploring the science needed for utilization of deep boreholes in crystalline rock formations. One of the most promising… Keep reading →
The Department of Energy is taking a critical step toward the development of a consent-based approach to siting future nuclear waste management facilities as part of a strategy for the long-term storage and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. The launch of our consent-based siting initiative represents an important step toward addressing this… Keep reading →
Until states submit their individual implementation plans, it is not clear what role nuclear will play in the Clean Power Plan. The Environmental Protection Agency says that existing nuclear plants do not count toward state emissions levels – only new construction or stations that have undergone new uprates. This has only exacerbated the industry’s current… Keep reading →
