Sentences with phrase «federal nuclear production»

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The federal agency that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile is expected this week to release a report on the best site option for the United States as it looks to ramp up production of the plutonium cores that trigger nuclear warheads.

In mid-2013, four federal nuclear safety experts brought an alarming message to the top official in charge of America's warhead production: Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nation's sole site for making and testing a key nuclear bomb part, wasn't taking needed safety precautions.

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It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

Third, Illinois nuclear plants never got anything like the federal production tax credit, or the federal investment tax credit, or state - mandated REC purchases, or renewable portfolio standards that force utilities to buy renewable power at a premium.

The $ 23 per megawatt - hour federal Production Tax Credit for wind farms, for example, can be larger than the total wholesale price nuclear plants get for their power in some regions, according to Bloomberg data.