Senate approves Crapo nuclear energy legislation amendment

[bananas]

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 Crapo’s bipartisan amendment.

Read more: http://www.localnews8.com/news/Senate-approves-Crapo-nuclear-energy-legislation-amendment/37689752

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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]

1. What an unfortunate last name. lol nt

[JonLeibowitz]

3. Lol. At least the amendment looks sound.

[Mnemosyne]

6. But totally suitible. nt

[jmowreader]

7. It's French. It's pronounced "CRAY-poe"

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]

2. Crapo makes crappy amendment that looks like crap and will turn the country into a craptacular

pile of crappy crap. Thanks, Crapo.

Oh, crap! Oh!

[TygrBright]

4. On the viability of "public/private sector partnerships" in this area...

...just see "Los Alamos National Laboratory".

That is all.

pithily,
Bright

[blackspade]

5. Crapo in leads to Crapo out.

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]

8. another example

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.