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Netherlands Power
Station
DELTA, Netherlands, will launch
the procedure that will eventually lead
to the application for a permit to build
a second nuclear power station near the
existing one at Borssele, Netherlands.
The site has been specifically earmarked
for this purpose. The procedure will be set
in motion by the submission of a start-up
memorandum to the Ministry of Housing,
Spatial Planning and the Environment.
The nuclear power plant is expected to be
operational in 2018.
“We definitely need nuclear power,
says DELTA’s CEO, Peter Boerma. By
2020 all of us will be using more electricity
than is generated. CO 2
emissions too are
increasing.”
Contact: M. van Zuilen, telephone: 31
118 88 20 41, email: persvoorlichting@
delta.nl.
Nuclear Cooperation
Agreement
United Kingdom’s Foreign &
Commonwealth Office Secretary, David
Miliband, commented on the signing of
a Nuclear Cooperation Agreement with
Jordan on June 22, 2009.
“The treaty between the UK and
Jordan commits the UK to helping Jordan
develop its civil nuclear program. If we
are to move the world to a low carbon
economy, then nuclear power needs to
be an important part of the energy mix.
But it needs to be developed in a safe and
secure way, and the UK is pleased to be
working with Jordan to achieve this.”
Contact: telephone: 00 44 20 7008
1500.
American Energy Act
U.S. Congressman Mike Pence,
Chairman of the House Republican
Conference, made the following
statement on the floor of the U.S. House
of Representatives regarding House
Republicans’ American Energy Act:
“The American economy is hurting.
Gasoline prices are on the rise, utility rates
threaten to go higher and pose an even
greater hardship on working families. The
American people are looking for answers
to these times and the challenges we face
in energy.
“Our energy solution focuses more
on domestic exploration for oil and
natural gas, a renewed commitment to
build 100 nuclear power plants in the
next 20 years, investments in renewables,
alternative energy technologies and
creating incentives for conservation.
“The American people want energy
independence and a cleaner environment
without a national energy tax. The
American Energy Act offered by House
Republicans is the answer the American
people are looking for.”
Contact: Matt Lloyd, telephone:
(202) 226-9000, email: matt.lloyd@mail.
house.gov.
STP 3&4
NRG Energy’s nuclear development
initiative, South Texas Project 3&4 (STP
3&4), was selected as one of only four
nuclear development projects advanced
by the Department of Energy in its
nuclear loan guarantee program (out of 18
total applications). This initiative is being
pursued through Nuclear Innovation
North America LLC (NINA), the joint
venture with Toshiba Corporation.
Contact: David Knox, telephone:
713.795.6106, email: David.Knox@
nrgenergy.com.
2010 Budget Legislation
The U.S. House Energy and Water
Appropriations Subcommittee approved
fiscal year 2010 budget legislation.
The following is a statement from Alex
Flint, the Nuclear Energy Institute’s
senior vice president for governmental
affairs, commenting on nuclear-related
provisions in the spending bill:
“NEI is heartened that the
committee increased, by $51 million,
the administration’s budget request for
the Nuclear Power 2010 program that
is a cost-shared, industry-government
partnership designed to reduce the
technical and regulatory uncertainties
associated with construction of advanced
nuclear power plant designs. Still, the
committee designation of $71 million
falls well short of the $121 million that the
industry intends to invest in the program
in fiscal 2010. We had expected DOE to
match that commitment to complete this
program.
“NEI is also pleased that funding for
next-generation nuclear plants would rise
to $245 million, a 36 percent increase
from the current year. We welcome the
federal investment in next-generation
nuclear plants as recognition of nuclear
energy’s long-term role as a clean
electricity source.
“This budget plan, while it has a
number of positive aspects, could better
reflect the reality that nuclear energy is
our nation’s only expandable large-scale
energy source capable of producing
electricity around the clock without
emitting air pollutants or greenhouse
gases.
“The government can and should
do more to encourage construction of
the first group of the many new nuclear
plants that our nation needs to stimulate
economic growth, create jobs and help
meet the threat of global climate change.
Federal investment in nuclear energy has
proven its worth many times over.”
Contact: telephone: 202.739.8000.
Calvert Cliffs
The Maryland Public Service
Commission (PSC) issued a final order
approving an application for a Certificate
of Public Convenience and Necessity
(CPCN) for a proposed new nuclear
energy facility at Calvert Cliffs in Lusby,
Maryland. The application was submitted
by UniStar Nuclear Energy, LLC, a
strategic joint venture of Constellation
Energy and EDF Group.
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