NEIS pieces on nuclear bailouts and political corruption links

Write ups by Nuclear Energy Information Service of Chicago:

THE CORROSIVE EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR BAILOUTS;

PRESS STATEMENT: NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER BAILOUTS;

"You can't have an energy future, by bailing out the past!" (Homer Simpson);

Letter to the Editor: Opposition to Nuke Plant Bailouts Oversimplified, Incomplete;

PRESS RELEASE: National Day of Opposition to Nuclear Bailouts in Chicago.

Beyond Nuclear press release: NRC APPROVES TEXAS NUCLEAR WASTE ‘INTERIM’ STORAGE FACILITY, BUT A NEW TEXAS LAW AND A FEDERAL COURT CHALLENGE COULD PREVENT THE PROJECT FROM GOING FORWARD

NEWS RELEASE
For immediate release

NRC APPROVES TEXAS NUCLEAR WASTE ‘INTERIM’ STORAGE FACILITY, BUT A NEW TEXAS LAW AND A FEDERAL COURT CHALLENGE COULD PREVENT THE PROJECT FROM GOING FORWARD

Contacts:      Kevin Kamps,  kevin@beyondnuclear.org, 269-716-8174
Stephen Kent, skent@kentcom.com, 914-589-5988

[Andrews County, Texas – September 14] Late yesterday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced it approved licensing for Interim Storage Partners’ controversial consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) in Andrews County in West Texas, on the New Mexico border.  The facility is designed to store high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants across the U.S. But NRC approval notwithstanding, a new Texas law and a federal court challenge may block the project.

See rest of press release, here.

See media coverage at our Centralized Storage website section, here.

New Beyond Nuclear fact sheets opposing Consolidated Interim Storage Facilities

See Beyond Nuclear's new fact sheet series, here.

The intended audience for the fact sheets are Members of Congress and their staff, as well as other officials at all levels of government -- federal, state, county, local, and Indigenous. (Please feel free to use the fact sheets as hand outs in your meetings with officials, whether face-to-face and hardcopy, or Zooms and links to PDFs!) But the fact sheets can also serve as important educational tools for citizens and activists concerned about highly radioactive waste, the general public, as well as the news media.

The author of the fact sheets is Beyond Nuclear's radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps. Legal support for the fact sheets was provided by Diane Curran of Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Eisenberg, L.L.P.

Beyond Nuclear would also like to thank numerous respected colleagues who provided peer review on these fact sheets. However, Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear remains responsible for any errors of commission or omission.

A big 'thank you' from us!

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Former SCANA CEO Kevin Marsh gets October sentencing date for VC Summer role

As reported by The State: 

An Oct. 7 date has been set for the sentencing of Kevin Marsh, the former CEO of SCANA who pleaded guilty earlier this year to federal conspiracy fraud charges involving a cover-up of financial troubles connected to the failure of the company’s $10 billion V.C. Summer nuclear project.

Marsh, who pleaded guilty in February, has agreed to a two-year prison sentence for his role in the cover-up, according to federal court records. 

Marsh was eligible to receive a five-year sentence for his crimes, but he received a break because he has agreed to cooperate in other ongoing investigations and prosecutions in the SCANA case. 

The Oct. 7 hearing will be at the federal courthouse in Columbia before U.S. District Judge Mary Lewis. 

Marsh would be the first person to receive a prison sentence in the failure of the company’s nuclear project. Another former SCANA executive, Stephen Byrne, also has pleaded guilty to similar conspiracy charges.