Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

Evergy gave Orano USA a contract to nearly double the size of the dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel at the Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station site near Burlington, Kansas, the company said Wednesday in a press release. The contract, financial details of which Orano did not provide in its press release, calls for […]

Before leaving the Department of Energy on Friday, Kathryn Huff briefly spotlighted the Joe Biden administration’s consent-based siting program for spent nuclear fuel in a recorded interview produced by the agency. “It’s what we owe to communities, it’s what we’ve promised the utilities, and trust that the U.S. government is moving forward rather than stagnating […]

The “long-term policy solutions” for spent nuclear fuel “will require many difficult conversations,” Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) wrote in an op-ed published Sunday in the local Orange County Register. Levin’s district includes the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, which shut down in 2013 and which plant owner Southern California Edison is now decommissioning. In his op-ed, […]

The local government of South Bruce, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday voted to let its citizens decide this fall whether they want to host a deep geologic repository for nuclear waste. The seven-member South Bruce council voted in support of the question, which now is eligible to appear on ballots during a by-election to be held on […]

The local government of South Bruce, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday voted to let its citizens decide this fall whether they want to host a deep geologic repository for nuclear waste. The seven-member South Bruce council voted in support of the question, which now is eligible to appear on ballots during a by-election to be held […]

The “long-term policy solutions” for spent nuclear fuel “will require many difficult conversations,” Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) wrote in an op-ed published Sunday in the local Orange County Register. Levin’s district includes the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, which shut down in 2013 and which plant owner Southern California Edison is now decommissioning. In his […]

A Canadian municipality this week planned another step towards letting its citizens choose whether to host a deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel. On Tuesday, the seven-member Council of the Corporation of the Municipality of South Bruce heard a staff report about the last procedural step needed to include a ballot question about the […]

A Canadian municipality this week planned another step towards letting its citizens choose whether to host a deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel.  On Tuesday, the seven-member Council of the Corporation of the Municipality of South Bruce was scheduled to vote on the last procedural step needed to approve a ballot question about the […]

Party-line divisions about future spent nuclear fuel policies emerged in a Wednesday House hearing, during which one lawmaker said work on the issue could stretch into the next Congress. “I’m not for interim storage,” Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) said during the hearing of the House Energy climate, and grid security subcommittee, which he chairs. “I […]

Party-line divisions about future spent nuclear fuel policies emerged in a Wednesday House hearing, during which one lawmaker said work on the issue could stretch into the next Congress. “I’m not for interim storage,” Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) said during the hearing of the House Energy climate, and grid security subcommittee, which he chairs. “I […]

The director of the Idaho national laboratory was one of four witnesses set to testify Wednesday before a House subcommittee in a hearing about spent nuclear fuel. The House Energy climate, and grid security subcommittee was set to gavel in at 10:30 a.m. Eastern time in Washington for a hearing titled “American Nuclear Energy Expansion: […]

A federal court late last week vacated Holtec International’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to store spent nuclear fuel in New Mexico. Holtec’s license, granted in May 2023, got caught up in a decision by the U.S Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission may not license storage of commercial spent […]

A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee plans a hearing next week on spent fuel management for the U.S. nuclear power plants. The hearing, dubbed “American Nuclear Energy Expansion: Spent Fuel Policy and Innovation,” is set for Wednesday April 10 at 10:30 a.m. at the Rayburn House Office Building, according to a press release. The session was […]

A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee plans a hearing next week on spent fuel management for the U.S. nuclear power plants. The hearing, dubbed “American Nuclear Energy Expansion: Spent Fuel Policy and Innovation,” is set for Wednesday April 10 at 10:30 a.m. at the Rayburn House Office Building, according to a press release. The session […]

A federal court late last week vacated Holtec International’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to store spent nuclear fuel in New Mexico. Holtec’s license, granted in May 2023, got caught up in a decision by the U.S Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission may not license storage of commercial spent […]

The Department of Energy’s final budget for fiscal year 2024 does not contain a federal ban on commercial interim storage sites to which states have not consented. A version of DOE’s 2024 budget bill that passed the House last year specified that none of the agency’s appropriations for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 could be […]

Kasgro Rail, New Castle, Pa., started building part of a prototype heavy-duty rail car to transport spent nuclear fuel, the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy announced Monday. Fabrication of deck components for the prototype, eight-axle Fortis railcar began “recently,” according to the office’s press release. Fortis is one of two rail cars DOE is […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will have to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court if it wants another chance to prove that it can legally license commercial interim storage of spent nuclear fuel. According to an order dated March 14, judges of the Fifth Circuit voted 9-7, with one recused, not to rehear the NRC’s argument […]

No, the Secretary of Energy said this week during the first budget hearing of the 2025 fiscal year, the Department of Energy does not plan to fund a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. “I just want to ask you if you can quickly confirm on the record what the department’s fiscal year 25 funding […]

The Department of Energy’s final budget for fiscal year 2024 does not contain a federal ban on commercial interim storage sites to which states have not consented. A version of DOE’s 2024 budget bill that passed the House last year specified that none of the agency’s appropriations for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 could […]

Kasgro Rail, New Castle, Pa., started building part of a prototype heavy-duty rail car to transport spent nuclear fuel, the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy announced Monday. Fabrication of deck components for the prototype, eight-axle Fortis railcar began “recently,” according to the office’s press release. Fortis is one of two rail cars DOE […]

PHOENIX —A trio of managers from branches of the Department of Energy at the Idaho National Laboratory planned to travel to Washington, D.C., later this month to brief congressional staffers on sitewide spent nuclear fuel management at the lab. Connie Flohr, who is retiring from DOE next month, said at the Waste Management Symposia conference […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will have to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court if it wants another chance to prove that it can legally license commercial interim storage of spent nuclear fuel. According to an order dated Thursday, judges of the Fifth Circuit voted 9-7, with one recused, not to rehear the NRC’s argument that […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission established an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to consider Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) Company’s application to extend the life of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant’s two nuclear reactors, the agency said in a Federal Register filing. PG&E is seeking a 20-year license renewal for the reactors. The state of […]

The U.S. Department of Energy needs to improve how it studies the long-term storage of commercial spent nuclear fuel, according to a February report to Congress and the secretary of energy by the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board The board performs independent technical and scientific peer review of DOE’s management and disposal of high-level radioactive […]

PHOENIX — The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy could be about a month away from beginning conceptual work on a federally owned interim storage facility, the head of the office said here. The federal interim storage facility could hit the project management milestone known as Critical Decision 0, or CD-0, in the next […]

PHOENIX — Paul Murray, deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition, was scheduled to speak to the congressional spent fuel caucus in Washington on March 20, the Department of Energy official said here Tuesday. “Please call your local representatives and ask them to ask me the nastiest questions,” Murray said during a panel […]

PHOENIX — Paul Murray, deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition, was scheduled to speak to the congressional spent fuel caucus in Washington on March 20, the Department of Energy official said here Tuesday. “Please call your local representatives and ask them to ask me the nastiest questions,” Murray said during a panel […]

PHOENIX — The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy could be about a month away from beginning conceptual work on a federally owned interim storage facility, the head of the office said here. The federal interim storage facility could hit the project management milestone known as Critical Decision 0, or CD-0, in the next […]

The U.S. Department of Energy needs to improve how it studies the long-term storage of commercial spent nuclear fuel, according to a February report to Congress and the secretary of energy by the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board  The board performs independent technical and scientific peer review of DOE’s management and disposal of high-level radioactive […]