Without a stronger regulator, I fear that the only thing that will be emptier than the decommissioning trust fund will b...
What is the role of the NRC?
We need to have better coordination.
the NRC has essentially cut itself off from any ability to mitigate, direct, or understand the site specific issues arou...
Senator Markey has introduced legislation that would actually take the first constructive step on nuclear waste in decad...
It is an extraordinary abdication of regulatory oversight for the NRC.
But I prefer just to deal with it as something that is urgent, and now because I had my first meeting on the Pilgrim Pla...
the likelihood of that occurring in the near term at least is very, very slight, given all of the political opposition.
Because an exemption the NRC has allowed to Holtec in the transfer of the license allows Holtec to stop paying for emerg...
I appreciate that, too, because this is my 45th year in Congress.
Will the Nuclear Regulatory Commission follow the advice of the IAEA and consider the environmental and political implic...
It does not, and it is obvious. So we just have to make sure the NRC reflects that in their rulemaking.
Those suggestions were disregarded. And the frustration you hear from stakeholders and residents is the result of that d...
For years, I have called on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to do more to respond to the concerns of residents around ...
Well, if the NRC doesn't have to consider and respond to public comments on a plant's decommissioning process, the rulem...
If you make rules more onerous, and we put more processes in place that basically make the decommissioning more expensiv...
Well, I thank the NRC for extending the comment period on the rule to August. We appreciate that.
We will be bringing that message back to Washington, DC.
