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The Ratepayer Protection Pledge: Who’s signed on?
In March, seven tech companies and hyperscalers signed on to President Trump's Ratepayer Protection Pledge, a voluntary agreement stating that, in the pursuit of data center growth, signatories would not shift costs to electricity customers in the form of higher electricity bills.
The American Nuclear Society currently supports eight consensus committees. A consensus committee is the balanced body that conducts the consensus ballot on proposed standards in order for them to become official, approved standards. Each consensus committee has a defined scope of activities. The eight ANS consensus committees are as follows:
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