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Funding is in place for the first five years of a seven-year project to build a demonstration Natrium reactor in Wyoming - subject to the completion of the legislative process - and a location will be selected by the end of the year, representatives from TerraPower and PacifiCorp told the state legislature’s Joint Minerals Committee last week. Amendments to existing state laws could further improve the prospect of building the demonstration reactor.

The Senate passed a bipartisan $1 trillion spending bill this week and the outline of a larger, Democrat-backed spending package. Together, the bills would provide tens of billions of dollars for R&D, technology demonstration projects, and research infrastructure over a multiyear period.

On Aug. 10, 2021, the Senate passed the infrastructure bill, called the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) in a 69-30 vote. The bill will now wait for consideration in the...

The News Reactor | NCSL’s Nuclear Newsletter Vol. 6, Issue 2 | July 2021 Whether seeking out information on advanced reactor technology or digging for clues on the future of Yucca Mountain, The News Reactor is your repository for the latest nuclear news and trends. In this quarterly newsletter, NCSL’s Energy Program tracks recent developments in the nuclear industry—tracing the fuel cycle all the way from mining and energy production through to the handling of spent fuel and the cleanup of the federal weapons complex. The News Reactor spans a variety of issue areas, including energy, ...

10 June 2021 Share It's hard to imagine a future where we can decarbonise our power grid affordably without using more nuclear power, Bill Gates told participants in the Nuclear Energy Assembly, held this week as a virtual event by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI). The text of his keynote speech on 9 June is as follows. "Obviously as the fact that we're not all in a room together right now attests, we have faced an historic global public health crisis over the past year-and-a-half. COVID-19 has killed millions, devastated economies and disrupted the lives of everyone on the planet. We stil...