Senate approves Crapo nuclear energy legislation amendment
Source: KIFI TV
The U.S. Senate today approved overwhelmingly legislation written by Idaho Senator Mike Crapo that would increase nuclear research efforts at the Idaho National Laboratory and other national labs through new partnerships between the public and private sectors. The vote of 87 to 4 to approve the amendment makes it a part of a larger energy policy reform bill before the Senate.
Crapo, along with Senators Jim Risch, Sheldon Whitehouse, (D-Rhode Island), Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Mark Kirk (R-Illinois) and Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) originally introduced the Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act (NEICA), which was the foundation of the Crapo amendment voted on today. The legislation, S. 2461, directs the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to prioritize partnering with private innovators on new reactor technologies and the testing and demonstration of reactor concepts. Under the agreement today, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) would report to Congress on any barriers that would prohibit the licensing of new reactors within a four-year time period.
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The Senate continues debating S.2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Bill, which now includes Crapos bipartisan amendment.
Read more: http://www.localnews8.com/news/Senate-approves-Crapo-nuclear-energy-legislation-amendment/37689752
Soon the country will be littered with dozens of Crapo reactors, and taxpayers and our children's children will have to clean up the mess.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)JonLeibowitz
(6,282 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)At the top of his "about Mike" page on his official Senate website, he has this...
http://www.crapo.senate.gov/about_mike/bio.cfm
Could be worse: he used to have an entire page explaining the Crapo name.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)pile of crappy crap. Thanks, Crapo.
Oh, crap! Oh!
TygrBright
(20,759 posts)...just see "Los Alamos National Laboratory".
That is all.
pithily,
Bright
blackspade
(10,056 posts)What a piece of shit amendment.
This is what it's all about:
Under the agreement today, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) would report to Congress on any barriers that would prohibit the licensing of new reactors within a four-year time period.
roomtomove
(217 posts)of corporate control of the congress. Who wanted, pushed, wrote (I betcha it was NOT "written" by that piece of Crapo), and paid for this legislation? The nuclear industry/power companies.