Commercial Decommissioning

EnergySolutions, Salt Lake City, planned to open a manufacturing facility in southeastern Tennessee to make parts for nuclear power plants, the company announced this week. For the task, the company plans to “immediately” begin refurbishing a 200,000 square-foot building it owns in Roane County, Tenn., according to the press release, which hit the wire less […]

EnergySolutions, Salt Lake City, planned to open a manufacturing facility in southeastern Tennessee to make parts for nuclear power plants, the company announced Tuesday in a press release. For the task, the company plans to “immediately” begin refurbishing a 200,000 square-foot building it owns in Roane County, Tenn., according to the press release, which hit […]

A citizens group heard this week that the Department of Energy plans to release by year’s end Orano’s plan for removing spent nuclear fuel from the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Vernon, Vt. The company has been decommissioning Vermont Yankee in earnest since 2019, four years after its shutdown. In slides briefed Monday to […]

Holtec Decommissioning International plans this fall to demolish water tanks at the shuttered Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant that held radioactively contaminated water and, by mid-winter, package much of the radioactive waste from the plant’s reactor vessel. Members of the Massachusetts Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel heard that and more Monday from Dave Noyes, Holtec’s compliance […]

Holtec Decommissioning International plans this fall to demolish water tanks at the shuttered Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant that held radioactively contaminated water and, by mid-winter, package much of the radioactive waste from the plant’s reactor vessel. Members of the Massachusetts Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel heard that and more Monday from Dave Noyes, Holtec’s compliance […]

EnergySolutions, Salt Lake City, completed its acquisition of Williams Industrial Services Group, the company announced Monday in a press release. EnergySolutions operates a low-level waste facility in Clive, Utah, and is decommissioning the partially melted-down Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor in Pennsylvania. The company said in July it was buying Williams out of chapter 11 […]

The Indian Point Decommissioning Oversight Board was to meet Thursday for the first time since New York outlawed the discharge of irradiated water from the shuttered plant. The board was scheduled to meet at the Cortlandt Town Hall in Cortland, N.Y. at 6:00 p.m. Eastern on Thursday evening. The board planned to stream the meeting […]

EnergySolutions, Salt Lake City, completed its acquisition of Williams Industrial Services Group, the company announced Monday in a press release. EnergySolutions operates a low-level waste facility in Clive, Utah, and is decommissioning the partially melted-down Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor in Pennsylvania. The company said in July it was buying Williams out of chapter […]

In a court filing this week, Holtec International’s ex-finance chief said he neither disclosed corporate secrets nor violated a nondisclosure agreement by publicly suing his former employer. Kevin O’Rourke sued Holtec, Jupiter, Fla., June 1 in the Superior Court of New Jersey in Camden County, alleging the company overvalued itself in an effort to get […]

In a court filing this week, Holtec International’s ex-finance chief said he neither disclosed corporate secrets nor violated a nondisclosure agreement by publicly suing his former employer.  Kevin O’Rourke sued Holtec, Jupiter, Fla., June 1 in the Superior Court of New Jersey in Camden County, alleging the company overvalued itself in an effort to get […]

In a move with ramifications for Holtec International’s decommissioning of the Indian Point Energy Center, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Friday signed into law a state ban on discharging radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River. Holtec would now face escalating fines for discharges into the Hudson. For a first time offense, Holtec would […]

In court documents filed Monday Holtec International, Jupiter, Fla., formally denied its ex-finance chief’s allegations that the company overvalued itself in an investor pitch.  Holtec also said the former chief financial officer, Kevin O’Rourke, acted maliciously and breached a non-disclosure agreement by filing a lawsuit that detailed, among other things, Holtec’s attempts to woo Hyundai […]

Looking toward a future as a developer of small nuclear reactors, Holtec International, Jupiter, Fla., added power generation to the responsibilities of its lead decommissioning executive, the company announced Monday. Kelly Trice is now president Nuclear Generation and Decommissioning for Holtec, the company wrote in a press release. In his new role, Kelly will now […]

The public is invited to a quick gold-cart tour of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station next week, the plant’s community engagement panel wrote in a press release this week. The tour is on the slate for Aug. 17, just ahead of the panel’s next scheduled briefing with plant owner Southern California Edison, which is […]

Two congressmen recently reintroduced a bipartisan bill to require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to keep a federal inspector at shuttered nuclear power plants until all fuel at the plants is in dry storage. Reps. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) and Mike Levin (D-Calif.) reintroduced their bill, the Increasing Nuclear Safety Protocols for Extended Canister Transfers (INSPECT) Act […]

Two congressmen recently reintroduced a bipartisan bill to require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to keep a federal inspector at shuttered nuclear power plants until all fuel at the plants is in dry storage. Reps. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) and Mike Levin (D-Calif.) reintroduced their bill, the Increasing Nuclear Safety Protocols for Extended Canister Transfers (INSPECT) Act […]

The Massachusetts legislature stripped a proposal to create a radioactive wastewater commission from the final version of the state budget sent to the governor this week. Lawmakers sent a compromise version of the state’s $56-billion budget proposal to Gov. Maura Healey (D) on Monday after a six-person conference committee of the state’s bicameral legislature hammered […]

Locals and activists this week renewed calls for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to sign the legislature’s ban on radioactive wastewater discharges into the Hudson River, but the governor made no move. In a meeting this week of the Indian Point Decommissioning Oversight Board, state officials got an earful from locals and activists who […]

The Massachusetts legislature stripped a proposal to create a radioactive wastewater commission from the final version of the state budget sent to the governor on Monday.  Lawmakers sent a compromise version of the state’s $56-billion budget proposal to Gov. Maura Healey (D) on Monday after a six-person conference committee of the state’s bicameral legislature hammered […]

Massachusetts on Monday forbade Holtec International from discharging irradiated wastewater into Cape Cod Bay from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, but the company could still get a federal permit to do so. The state Department of Environmental Protection published the decision in a tentative determination to deny Holtec’s application to modify a discharge permit the […]

Massachusetts on Monday forbade Holtec International from discharging irradiated wastewater into Cape Cod Bay from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, but the company could still get a federal permit to do so. The state Department of Environmental Protection published the decision in a tentative determination to deny Holtec’s application to modify a discharge permit the […]

The story “HII, Babcock International sign nuclear decommissioning, construction MOU” [Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, July, 17, 2023] should have that Huntington Ingalls Industries maintains an ownership stake in Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the management and operations contractor for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C.

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Newport News, Va., and U.K.-based defense contractor Babcock International signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on civilian- and naval-nuclear decommissioning, the companies announced Monday. “That’s everything from power plant design and construction on a global basis to component design and fabrication and construction, principally in North America and the U.K., to […]

Entergy Nuclear this week said it promoted several executives to new roles at reactors in Arkansas and Louisiana and at corporate headquarters in Jackson, Miss. Joe Sullivan was appointed site vice president at Waterford 3 Steam Electric Station in Killona, La., replacing John Ferrick who will become fleet vice president of outage services at headquarters. […]

Aspen Environmental Group, Agoura Hills, Calif., on Tuesday got a one-year contract extension, worth a little under half a million dollars, to continue work on an environmental impact report about decommissioning the Diablo Canyon Power Plant in southern California. Though owner Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) is trying to keep Diablo Canyon online in Avila […]

Entergy Nuclear this week said it promoted several executives to new roles at reactors in Arkansas and Louisiana and at corporate headquarters in Jackson, Miss. Joe Sullivan was appointed site vice president at Waterford 3 Steam Electric Station in Killona, La., replacing John Ferrick who will become fleet vice president of outage services at headquarters. […]

Steven Birchfield was to replace Greg Wood as the chief financial officer of EnergySolutions in June, the Salt Lake City-based radioactive waste disposal company announced Monday. Wood was to retire in June, EnergySolutions wrote in a press release announcing the personnel change in the C-suite.  Birchfield was most recently executive vice president and chief financial […]

By John Stang A leading Ohio politician on Thursday was sentenced to 20 years in Prison following a March conviction on a $60 million bribery scheme involving two financially struggling nuclear power plants. Larry Householder, 64, the former speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, got the maximum sentence from the U.S. District Court in […]

A Nuclear Regulatory Commission panel should decide this summer whether to force Pacific Gas and Electric to formally defend its request to relicense the Diablo Canyon Power Plant’s spent fuel storage facility. The environmental group San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace has mounted a multipronged legal attack on Pacific Gas & Electric’s (PG&E) effort to […]

A leading Ohio politician faces sentencing Thursday afternoon in Columbus following a March conviction on a $60 million bribery scheme involving two financially struggling nuclear power plants. Larry Householder, 64, the former speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, and former Ohio Republican Party chairman Mathew Borges, 50, face sentences of up to 20 years […]