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State legislation: Texas considers $2B incentive fund to attract new nuclear projects
A bill being considered in the Texas legislature would create a taxpayer-funded program to draw advanced nuclear projects to the state.
GOP state Rep. Cody Harris authored House Bill 14, which proposes use of public dollars to help fund nuclear construction, provide grants for reactors, and continue development research. The legislation would allocate up to $2 billion for a new Texas Advanced Nuclear Deployment Office and create within it a state coordinator position to assist in the state and federal permitting processes, according to Inside Climate News.
Decommissioning Environmental Science and Remote Technology 2021 Speaker
Ms Tadesse joined the NEA in January 2019 and is responsible for advancing information exchange and studies in the fields of radioactive waste management, nuclear facility decommissioning, and legacy management.
Prior to joining NEA, Ms Rebecca Tadesse served as the Chief of the Radiation Protection Branch in the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research at the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Ms Tadesse has over 27 years of domestic and international experience in the operation and radiation safety of research reactors, fuel fabrication facilities, nuclear power plants and biomedical research facilities. Ms Tadesse also served as Senior Policy Advisor for Commissioners and Senior Operational Assistant in the Executive Directors Office. In addition, Ms Tadesse was the Chief of the Material Decommissioning Branch, where she was responsible for managing the licensing and the oversight of complex decommissioning nuclear facilities. She also held numerous positions in the Reactor, Material and Fuels area at the NRC as Health Physicist, Project Manager, and Technical Assistant to the Director. Prior to her appointment with NRC, she worked for private industry and Federal Government as a Radiation Physicist at Common Wealth Edison Nuclear Corporation, General Atomics defense Contractor Company, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Ms Tadesse is a US national and holds a B.S. degree in Radiation Physics from Purdue University and an M.S. degree in Environmental Science/Policy from Johns Hopkins University
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