NEI Nuclear Notes

As the IT folks in Senator Warner's office are undoubtedly really busy, below is a transcription of a draft of the Warner amendment. According to Sen. Warner , his proposed amendment will be the first one to be offered up, and will likely be introduced Wednesday morning. AMENDMENT NO. ____ CALENDAR NO. _____ Purpose: To modify a subtitle relating to low- and zero- carbon electricity technology. To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, and for other purposes. AMENDMENTS intended to be proposed by Mr. Warner (for himself and Mr. Lieberman) + Sen. Carper [D-DEL]. Viz: On page 164, strike line 15 and insert the following: (c) EDUCATION AND TRAINING - For each Beginning on page 181, strike line 1 and all that follows through page 183, line 3, and insert the following: SEC. 536 EDUCATION AND TRAINING (a) Definition of Applicable Period -- In this section, the term "applicable period" me...

In a joint press conference with Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Sen. John Warner (R-VA) has said, There is no solution to our energy problem without enhanced nuclear participation. And so this amendment...I'm going to put on, hopefully, as the very first amendment. Again, it states, this where we are in nuclear power. Let's do everything to help the current instruction to get started towards adding more plants. We recognize today much of a plant being built in the near future will be manufactured overseas. Let's put an end to that. We also recognize that when this country shut off all of its effort to go forward with nuclear power a dozen or more years ago, young people turned to other professions. We've got to incentivize them to get the education and do what is necessary so they can join as technology moves forward for safe nuclear power. Update : Links to the proposed Warner amendment and a transcript of the presser will be added as soon as...