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New Mexico town steps up for nuclear borehole project

By REBECCA MOSS - Associated Press

This Jan. 4, 2017, image provided by the U.S. Energy Department and its contractor Nuclear Waste Partnership shows workers moving waste underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. The repository, the federal government's only underground spot for disposing of low-level nuclear waste, had been shuttered for nearly three years since a 2014 radiation release. (Sam Christensen/Nuclear Waste Partnership via U.S. Energy Department)

Ernest Moniz, energy secretary, lauds opening of nuke repository

By Susan Montoya Bryan - Associated Press

Nuke dump disposes of first drums of waste in 3 years

Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2016, file photo, provided by the New Mexico Environment Department, a team of state regulators tour the federal government's only underground nuclear waste repository near Carlsbad, N.M., as part of an inspection necessary before the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant can resume operations. State regulators have approved restarting normal operations at the nuclear waste repository, according to two letters obtained Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/New Mexico Environment Department, File)

US allowing work to restart at nuke dump 3 years after leak

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 22, 2012 file photo, a pump jack is silhouetted against the setting sun in Oklahoma City. Declining oil prices could cost Oklahoma residents an income tax cut in 2016. A law signed in April by Gov. Mary Fallin requires an increase in state revenue, provided in part by tax collections that rise and fall with oil prices. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Oil takes another dive on OPEC report, US supplies

By Jonathan Fahey - Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama, right, looks away as Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott, left, address a plenary session while British Prime Minister David Cameron looks on during the G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, Pool) ** FILE **

U.S. Energy Department doing poor job policing nuclear exports with Iran deal pending

By John Solomon - The Washington Times

Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz has toured Louisiana's Gulf Coast oil and gas operations to assure the industry the administration supported its growth. At his side was Sen. Mary Landrieu, one of the Democrats' most vulnerable incumbents in this fall's election. (Associated press photographs)

Feds approve Cameron LNG exports from SW La.

Associated Press

In this undated photo released by the Idaho National Laboratory, rail cars carry spent nuclear fuel headed to a federal laboratory in Idaho. The U.S. Department of Energy recently asked for suggestions on getting rail cars to haul used, radioactive fuel from civilian nuclear power reactors to a final depository. However, the U.S. government hasn’t decided where that used fuel will ultimately go. (AP Photo/Idaho National Laboratory)

Feds want nuclear waste train, but nowhere to go

By RAY HENRY - Associated Press

Audit: Lack of cost control at SC nuke fuel plant

By MEG KINNARD - Associated Press

No continued retaliation against BPA whistleblower

Associated Press

SC withdraws lawsuit over nuclear fuel funding

By MEG KINNARD - Associated Press

Energy Department OKs LNG terminal on Oregon coast

By GOSIA WOZNIACKA - Associated Press

Energy names new head of BPA after hiring scandal

Associated Press

Report: Nuclear weapon drivers sometimes got drunk

Associated Press