Commercial Low-Level Waste

While there is much consolidation happening in the nuclear services and waste management industry these days, Perma-Fix Environmental Solutions is not looking to buy other businesses, President and CEO Louis Centofanti said last week. Perma-Fix is always interested in what is developing with industry mergers and acquisitions, Centofanti said Aug. 9 during his company’s quarterly […]

Holding company Valhi Inc. said Tuesday it continues to seek new potential buyers for its Waste Control Specialists (WCS) subsidiary, but has not ruled out shutting down the business in the wake of its foiled acquisition by EnergySolutions. “We have in the past considered and evaluated various strategic alternatives with respect to our Waste Management […]

By Wayne Barber Executives at two U.S. radioactive waste disposal companies said this week they aren’t worried that the Energy Department is taking longer than initially anticipated to report to Congress on plans for disposal of Greater Than Class C (GTCC) waste. In February 2016, DOE issued the final environmental impact statement for disposal of GTCC […]

The Energy Department said last week it continues to conduct “departmental concurrence” ahead of submitting a report to Congress on disposal of Greater Than Class C waste. That leaves the schedule for issuing the record of decision on the disposal pathway “TBD at this time,” a DOE spokesperson said in a July 27 email to […]

Swedish nuclear technology company Studsvik said a deal inked Monday should open the door for deployment of its fluid bed steam reforming (FBSR) radioactive waste treatment system at multiple nuclear power plants in China. A new framework agreement gives Beijing Dynatech Co. the exclusive license to employ the technology in the nation, according to a […]

By Wayne Barber Environmental services and waste management provider US Ecology said Thursday that its operating and net incomes dropped in the second quarter, on a year-over-year basis, even as company-wide revenue spiked by nearly $4 million. Revenue landed at $126.1 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2017, up from $122.4 million in the […]

US Ecology is scheduled to issue its second-quarter 2017 after the market close on Thursday, following the release with an investor conference call at 10 a.m. Friday. In its first quarter, the environmental services specialist reported $110.2 million in company-wide revenue, down from $113.3 million for the same period of 2016. Net income likewise dipped […]

Swedish nuclear technology company Studsvik said a deal inked Monday should open the door for deployment of its fluid bed steam reforming (FBSR) radioactive waste treatment system at multiple nuclear power plants in China. A new framework agreement gives Beijing Dynatech Co. the exclusive license to employ the technology in the nation, according to a […]

By Wayne Barber The Environmental Protection Agency continues to believe that people living and working near the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site in Missouri are not being exposed to radiological contaminant levels that pose health concerns. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported this week that a stormwater sample, collected April 30 following a period of heavy […]

The federal judge who blocked the merger of EnergySolutions and Waste Control Specialists accepted the U.S. government’s argument that the deal would drastically reduce competition in the market for disposal of low-level radioactive waste (LLRW), according to the court’s newly released opinion. Judge Sue L. Robinson, of U.S. District Court for Delaware, issued the order […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a “white” safety finding to the Columbia Generating Station in Washington state after completing an evaluation of a waste shipping incident to US Ecology on leased land at the Hanford Site. Energy Northwest, operator of the nuclear power plant near the city of Richland, was notified of the decision on […]

A federal judge has set a Friday deadline for parties to file an agreed-upon redacted version of the opinion for her ruling blocking the merger of nuclear waste management providers Waste Control Specialists and EnergySolutions. Judge Sue Robinson, of U.S. District Court for Delaware, on June 21 found in favor of the Justice Department in […]

By Wayne Barber The opinion detailing the reasoning for a federal judge’s June 21 ruling blocking the $367 million merger of Waste Control Specialists and EnergySolutions had not been made public by Friday, a week after the companies walked away from the deal. The office of Judge Sue L. Robinson, of U.S. District Court for […]

Valhi Inc. late Friday said it was walking away from the $367 million sale of its Waste Control Specialists subsidiary to EnergySolutions. The announcement came two days after a federal judge blocked the merger following a 10-day antitrust trial in April to May in which the Department of Justice argued that combining the two primary providers […]

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the planned $367 million buyout of Waste Control Specialists by radioactive waste management rival EnergySolutions, raising new questions about the financially troubled company’s plans for interim storage of U.S. commercial nuclear reactor fuel and its future in total. The merger announced in November 2015 would have brought WCS’ waste […]

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the planned $367 million buyout of Waste Control Specialists by radioactive waste management rival EnergySolutions. The merger announced in November 2015 would have brought WCS’ waste storage complex in West Texas into EnergySolutions’ broader portfolio of nuclear service offerings. But, in an antitrust lawsuit filed last November, the Justice Department […]

Stakeholders have until July 14 to comment on a draft request for proposals from the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) for a new contract for disposal of low-level and mixed-low-level waste. Waste Control Specialists and EnergySolutions hold the current contracts for transport and disposition of DOE wasate, which also cover Section 11e.(2) byproduct […]

There is no cause for concern regarding the shipment into the United States of 10,000 metric tons of radioactively contaminated material from Canada, according to a senior manager with the company that will process the waste. UniTech Services Group, of Longmeadow, Mass., in October filed for separate Nuclear Regulatory Commission licenses to import and export […]

Nuclear remediation and waste treatment provider Perma-Fix Environmental Services on Wednesday reported improvements in both revenue and operating losses for the first quarter of 2017. The Atlanta-based company brought in $12.7 million in revenue for the three months ended on March 31, up from $10 million in the same quarter of 2017. Revenue in the […]

Nuclear remediation and waste treatment provider Perma-Fix Environmental Services on Wednesday reported improvements in both revenue and operating losses for the first quarter of 2017. The Atlanta-based company brought in $12.7 million in revenue for the three months ended on March 31, up from $10 million in the same quarter of 2017. Revenue in the […]

Nuclear remediation and waste treatment provider Perma-Fix Environmental Services on Wednesday reported improvements in both revenue and operating loss for the first quarter of 2017. The Atlanta-based company brought in $12.7 million in revenue for the three months ended on March 31, up from $10 million in the same quarter of 2017. Revenue in the […]

The bench trial over EnergySolutions’ planned $367 million acquisition of waste management rival Waste Control Specialists ended Friday in U.S. District Court in Delaware. Senior Judge Sue Robinson indicated she intends to rule on the Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit against the merger ahead of her retirement next month, Law 360 reported. The DOJ’s closing […]

The federal civil antitrust trial over the planned merger of radioactive waste management providers Waste Control Specialists and EnergySolutions was scheduled to close today in U.S. District Court for Delaware. In the two-week bench trial, the Department of Justice laid out its case why the $367 million deal would deny competitive benefits to customers for […]

Low-level radioactive waste disposal providers EnergySolutions and Waste Control Specialists are each other’s top rivals, and their merger would undermine competition in dozens of states, the Department of Justice said Monday in the opening day of the federal antitrust trial against the deal. The bench trial in U.S. District Court in Delaware is scheduled to last […]

Environmental services provider US Ecology on Thursday reported year-over-year dips in both revenue and net income for the first quarter of 2017. Company-wide revenue for the three-month period ending March 31 slipped from $113.3 million in 2016 to $110.2 million this year, according to a company press release. US Ecology recorded $5.2 million in net […]

Environmental services provider US Ecology on Thursday reported year-over-year dips in both revenue and net income for the first quarter of 2017. Company-wide revenue for the three-month period ending March 31 slipped from $113.3 million in 2016 to $110.2 million this year, according to a company press release. US Ecology recorded $5.2 million in net […]

The trial over the Department of Justice’s civil antitrust lawsuit seeking to block EnergySolutions’ $367 million acquisition of Waste Control Specialists (WCS) began Monday in federal court. The proceedings are scheduled to last two weeks and will be overseen by Senior U.S. District Judge Sue Robinson. Justice filed the lawsuit in November in the U.S. […]

EnergySolutions, of Salt Lake City, will clean up and package radioactive waste from the canceled American Centrifuge uranium enrichment demonstration in Piketon, Ohio, according to a document published by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The work will be done for Centrus Energy Corp., which was the Energy Department’s prime contractor on the American Centrifuge demo at […]

EnergySolutions, of Salt Lake City, will clean up and package radioactive waste from the canceled American Centrifuge uranium enrichment demonstration in Piketon, Ohio, according to a document published by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The work will be done for Centrus Energy Corp., which was the Energy Department’s prime contractor on the American Centrifuge demo at […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled a May 2 conference with Energy Northwest to give the utility an opportunity to explain an incident in which it allegedly shipped low-level radioactive waste from the Columbia Generating Station in Washington state to a nearby disposal facility, where it was rejected for under-reported radiation levels. The NRC is considering […]