Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy would get roughly the $1.6 billion the White House requested for it in fiscal year 2024, if a bill approved this week by the Senate Appropriations Committee becomes law. The full committee approved the bill 29-0 on Thursday, setting up both a floor vote in the full […]

The Department of Energy invited the public to attend the kickoff of the agency’s Consent Based Siting Consortia, the group among which the agency split $26 million in federal funding to help define what it means to consent to the storage of spent nuclear fuel. The 13 consortia members were set to be online for […]

The Department of Energy invited the public to attend the kickoff of the agency’s Consent Based Siting Consortia, the group among which the agency split $26 million in federal funding to help define what it means to consent to the storage of spent nuclear fuel. The 13 consortia members were set to be online for […]

To net an investment from Hyundai, Holtec International, Camden, N.J., wanted to lie about its value and about the prospects for its proposed interim spent-fuel storage business, a former Holtec executive alleged. Kevin O’Rourke, Holtec’s former chief financial officer, said he was fired in 2022 after about a year on the job for refusing to […]

Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization recommended that the country dispose of intermediate-level and non-fuel, high-level radioactive waste in a deep geologic repository, according to a press release from the non-profit corporation, which at the Canadian federal government’s direction was founded in 2002 by Canada’s utilities to deal with the nation’s radioactive waste. Canada’s Minister of […]

The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday said Butte County, Idaho, lacks either a factual or legal basis to win its lawsuit against the Department of Energy over ongoing storage of certain nuclear material at the Idaho National Laboratory. The feds want U.S. District Judge David Nye to toss the lawsuit the county, home to […]

The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday said Butte County, Idaho, lacks either a factual or legal basis to win its lawsuit against the Department of Energy over ongoing storage of certain nuclear material at the Idaho National Laboratory. The feds want U.S. District Judge David Nye to toss the lawsuit the county, home to […]

The federal government does not have to make ratepayers whole for costs that two Southern Co. subsidies passed on to pay for a pair of dry storage facilities for spent fuel, a federal judge ruled this week. The decision was part of what could largely be characterized as a routine ruling in the U.S. Court […]

To net an investment from Hyundai, Holtec International, Camden, N.J., wanted to lie about its value and about the prospects for its proposed interim spent-fuel storage business, a former Holtec executive alleged. Kevin O’Rourke, Holtec’s former chief financial officer, said he was fired in 2022 after about a year on the job for refusing to […]

The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday said Butte County, Idaho, lacks either a factual or legal basis to win its lawsuit against the Department of Energy over ongoing storage of certain nuclear material at the Idaho National Laboratory. The feds want U.S. District Judge David Nye to toss the lawsuit the county, home to […]

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), up for reelection in 2024, touted her opposition to Yucca Mountain in a press release listing her contributions to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. The bill, Rosen, wrote in her presser, has “Zero dollars authorized for defense nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain.” Yucca, which Nevada politicians have effectively stonewalled, […]

Georgia-based NAC International, a provider of nuclear fuel services and  products, said this week it has bought Niagara Energy Products, which will become a Canadian subsidiary of NAC. Niagara Energy Products, based in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, supplies nuclear containers and pressure boundary components for the nuclear energy, defense, natural resource extraction industries and Industrial […]

Georgia-based NAC International, a provider of nuclear fuel services and  products, said Monday it has bought Niagara Energy Products, which will become a Canadian subsidiary of NAC. Niagara Energy Products, based in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, supplies nuclear containers and pressure boundary components for the nuclear energy, defense, natural resource extraction industries and Industrial markets […]

Some House Democrats told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a hearing this week that development of new nuclear power plants should be yoked to development of a permanent nuclear waste storage facility. In the same Wednesday hearing of the House Energy and Commerce energy, climate and grid security subcommittee, another Democrat, Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), […]

An Idaho county this week urged a federal judge to reject the federal governent’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the Department of Energy over ongoing use of the Idaho National Laboratory as a repository for spent nuclear fuel. Butte County, which says DOE should shoulder more of the social and economic impact of decades […]

Some House Democrats told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a hearing Wednesday that development of new nuclear power plants should be yoked to development of a permanent nuclear waste storage facility. In the same hearing of the House Energy and Commerce energy, climate and grid security subcommittee, another Democrat, Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), urged the […]

The Department of Energy on Friday announced it split $26 million among 13 teams who will help the agency define consent-based siting. The list includes trade groups, universities, local and tribal interest groups and even a few outright antinuclear groups. Some groups are part of multiple teams. Awards max out at $2 million. Consent-based siting […]

Holtec International will know by June or July whether it will get the funds it wants to restart the shuttered Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Calvert, Mich., executives told Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff Wednesday. It was the most specific public timetable Holtec has set yet for the full-court fundraising press the company initiated to restart […]

Holtec International will know by June or July whether it will get the funds it wants to restart the shuttered Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Calvert, Mich., executives told Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff Wednesday. It was the most specific public timetable Holtec has set yet for the full-court fundraising press the company initiated to restart […]

Butte County, Idaho has already tried and failed to convince federal courts the locality is entitled to “impact payments” because of ongoing storage of spent nuclear fuel at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory, according to Justice Department legal papers filed Monday. “Plaintiff already tested—and lost—its theory that it was entitled to impact assistance […]

The Department of Energy wants to hear by June 16 from entities doing research and development on technology to transmute nuclear waste into other things, the agency wrote Monday in a request for information. DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) seeks “novel and disruptive technologies that are early in the R&D cycle” and […]

The Department of Energy and Canadian nonprofit Nuclear Waste Management Organization signed an agreeement to cooperate on used nuclear fuel management, the Canadian organization announced Tuesday. “The agreement reflects the U.S. and Canada’s shared commitment to safely managing used nuclear fuel, including that from small modular reactors,” the Nuclear Waste Management Organization wrote in a […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission could issue a Federal Register notice this week of a draft environmental review to allow Waste Control Specialists to move stranded Department of Energy transuranic waste to a different location within the company’s 1,300-acre property in preparation for its ultimate removal from Texas, a federal spokesperson said Tuesday. The public notice, […]

The Department of Energy wants to hear by June 16 from entities doing research and development on technology to transmute nuclear waste into other things, the agency wrote Monday in a request for information. DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) seeks “novel and disruptive technologies that are early in the R&D cycle” and […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week licensed Holtec International to operate a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in New Mexico, where politicians vowed to block the project. Holtec’s is one of two proposed consolidated interim storage facilities the NRC has licensed over the last two years to receive spent fuel. If built, […]

The Department of Energy said Tuesday 60 uranium-oxide storage cylinders recently arrived by rail at a private radioactive waste disposal site in West Texas from the Paducah Site in Kentucky. DOE’s Office of Environmental Management said in a press release the 60 cylinders recently arrived at Waste Control Specialists in Andrews County, Texas from Paducah. […]

Some of the heaviest hitters in New Mexico politics united this week to oppose construction of the interim spent fuel storage facility the Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensed Holtec International to operate in the state. Holtec has not said when it might begin building the facility, which under an NRC license granted Tuesday may operate for […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Tuesday licensed Holtec International to operate a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in New Mexico, agency documents show. The proposed facility, which Jupiter, Fla.-based Holtec calls HI-STORE, may receive 8,680 metric tons of uranium, the equivalent of 500 canisters, “in the form of undamaged fuel assemblies, damaged […]

In its latest effort to expand and diversify its pipeline of future workers, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management said it is making up to $24.5 million in federal money available to its Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program. The funding opportunity announcement should result in multiple financial assistance awards ranging from 12-36 months, […]

Construction continued on an expanded fuel storage facility at New York’s shuttered Indian Point Energy center, where a subcontractor started building a vehicle barrier system to protect 127 casks of spent fuel, decommissioning lead Holtec International said last week. Holtec International, Jupiter, Fla., briefed the local Decommissioning Oversight Board about the development April 26 at […]