July 31st, 2023 by WCBC Radio

The US Senate voted 96-3 to include West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin’s bipartisan amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024.  The amendment directs the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy to establish a nuclear fuel program with the purpose of onshoring nuclear fuel production of uranium.  Formerly called the Nuclear Fuel Security Act, this amendment is designed to ensure a disruption in Russian uranium supply would not impact the development of advanced reactors or the operation of the United States’ light-water reactor fleet.  Senator Manchin spoke on the Senate floor and said it was time for the US to start producing its own uranium…