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Nuclear Energy Institute spends up on lobbying USA governmnet

NEI, based in Washington, lobbied the government on measures designed to ensure the nation’s 104 commercial reactors can withstand natural disasters, cyber attacks, and on a proposal that would require the president to issue guidance on a federal response to a large-scale nuclear disaster. It also lobbied on a measure that would require nuclear operators to transfer radioactive spent nuclear fuel from cooling pools inside or near reactor cores to dry casks further fromthe reactors….
NEI also lobbied the government over environmental regulations….

Nuclear group spent $540,000 lobbying in 3Q. CBS News, 12 Dec 11(AP) NEW YORK — The main trade group for the nuclear power industry, the Nuclear Energy Institute, spent $540,000 in the third quarter lobbying federal officials about financial support for new reactors, safety regulations and other issues, according to a disclosure report.

That’s 30 percent more than the $415,000 the trade group spent in the third quarter of last year and 7 percent less than the $580,000 it spent in the second quarter of 2011…..

NEI, based in Washington, lobbied the government on measures designed to ensure the nation’s 104 commercial reactors can withstand natural disasters, cyber attacks, and on a proposal that would require the president to issue guidance on a federal response to a large-scale nuclear disaster. It also lobbied on a measure that would require nuclear operators to transfer radioactive spent nuclear fuel from cooling pools inside or near reactor cores to dry casks further fromthe reactors….
NEI also lobbied the government over environmental regulations….
NEI lobbied for funds for research and development for smaller,
cheaper reactors and other nuclear technologies, and also on a measure
that would create an export assistance fund that would promote the
export of clean energy technologies.

Nuclear reactors produce about 20 percent of the nation’s electricity,
but the country’s reactors are aging. No new reactor has been planned
and completed since the Three Mile Island accident in 1979…..
In the July through September period, NEI lobbied Congress, the
Commerce Department, the Defense Department, the Executive Office of
the President, the Departments of Transportation, Energy, State and
Homeland Security Department, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the
Office of Management and Budget, the Environmental Protection Agency
and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, according to the report

December 14, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA