Nuclear News Roundup Oct 23, 2017 In 2014 and 2015 the Department of Energy finalized $8.3 billion in taxpayer-backed loan guarantees for the Vogtle Nuclear Reactor Project in eastern Georgia. Now, as the project has ballooned in cost and must adjust to the recent bankruptcy of Westinghouse, the project’s construction firm, the Energy Department is proposing to provide yet another handout to the project. This is quite literally throwing good money after bad, and Congress or the Energy Department itself should put a stop to it. Thehill.com The Department of Energy and the City of Oak Ridge launched a project to preserve the history of the former Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant on Thursday with a tour of the K-25 History Center's future home in the Oak Ridge Fire Station Number Four building at the East Tennessee Technology Park. Knoxnews.com South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in said on Sunday the government will continue to phase out nuclear-generated electricity, following a public opinion survey that dealt a blow to his plans to do so. Reuters.com The economic sanctions the USA and the European Union have imposed on Russia are not impacting the work of the state nuclear corporation Rosatom, its director-general Alexey Likhachov told delegates at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Sochi earlier this week. World-nuclear-news.org
