Nuclear News Roundup May 21, 2017 A panel charged by the U.N. General Assembly has presented a draft that could lead to a treaty to ban nuclear weapons, although none of the countries that possess them participated in its writing. Washingtontimes.com Westinghouse’s bankruptcy has jeopardized the fate of the only two nuclear plants to begin construction in the United States in about 30 years, SCANA’s Summer plant and the Vogtle reactors being built in Georgia by Southern Co.’s Georgia Power. Utilitydive.com French state-controlled utility EDF on Monday denied a media report that it had a secret plan to push back by 25 years a target to reduce the share of nuclear power generation within France's overall electricity mix. Reuters.com In 1980, Oregon's voters approved a moratorium on the financing and construction of nuclear power plants in Oregon until two conditions are met: First, that a permanent repository for extremely dangerous and long-lived high-level nuclear waste is established by the federal government and is licensed to operate and accept the waste from a proposed plant. And second, that voters approve the new, proposed plant in a statewide vote. Oregonlive.com
