{"id":28509,"date":"2011-04-19T10:15:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T16:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=28509"},"modified":"2011-04-19T10:15:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T16:15:57","slug":"domenici-to-speak-at-uranium-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/04\/domenici-to-speak-at-uranium-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Domenici to speak at uranium conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6128\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6128 \" title=\"Domenici\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Domenici.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici. (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pete_Domenici\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Domenici<\/a> will headline a uranium fuel conference in Hobbs later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/nmcep.nmt.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">N.M. Center for Energy Policy<\/a> and others are organizing the conference to bring together leaders in nuclear-related mining, energy and waste management.<\/p>\n<p>From a news release about the event:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDomenici has long been considered one of the most consistent and forceful national advocates of the nuclear industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe six-term senator from\u00a0New Mexico\u00a0is a member of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America\u2019s Nuclear Future, a panel formed by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2009 and tasked by Secretary\u00a0Steven Chu\u00a0to study options for the disposal of nuclear waste.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Domenici will talk about the uranium fuel cycle and environmental issues related to the disposal of spent fuel. A session at the conference will also address the crisis at Fukushima reactor in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The conference will be held April 27. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyplexnm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for more information and to register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici will headline a uranium fuel conference in Hobbs later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[119,116],"class_list":["post-28509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-energy-policy","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}