Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

Idaho’s attorney general last week reiterated his stance that no spent nuclear fuel should be sent to the Idaho National Laboratory until the Energy Department begins treating liquid waste using the long-delayed Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU), the local Post Register newspaper reported last week. In a Thursday meeting of the DOE-chartered Idaho National Laboratory Citizens Advisory Board, […]

A location in Dale County, Ala., has joined the list of potential sites for the Energy Department’s deep borehole nuclear waste storage field test, but has already drawn opposition from community members. Ohio-based Battelle Memorial Institute is proposing the Southern Co.-owned site in Alabama. The company has already obtained a letter of support from the Dale County […]

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Monday the United States could be operating consolidated interim storage for nuclear waste in a little over five years if Congress would authorize his department to move forward, while also calling the stalemate over nuclear waste management a “hostage situation.” The Department of Energy continues to seek a solution to permament […]

A federal court last week awarded the Dairyland Power Cooperative a $73.5 million settlement for the government’s breach of contract concerning nuclear waste retrieval at the La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor power plant in Genoa, Wis. About 74,000 metric tons of spent fuel is now stored at American nuclear sites, resulting from the Energy Department’s […]

A location in Dale County, Ala., has joined the list of potential sites for the Energy Department’s deep borehole nuclear waste storage field test. Ohio-based Battelle Memorial Institute is proposing the Southern Co.-owned site in Alabama. The company has already secured a letter of support from the Dale County Commission, after having failed to secure […]

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Monday that the U.S. could be operating consolidated interim storage for nuclear waste in a little over five years if Congress would authorize his department to move forward, while also calling the stalemate over nuclear waste management a “hostage situation.” Moniz has said in the past that DOE can move forward […]

A federal court last week awarded the Dairyland Power Cooperative a $73.5 million settlement for the government’s breach of contract concerning nuclear waste retrieval at the La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor power plant in Genoa, Wis. About 74,000 metric tons of spent fuel is now stored at American nuclear sites, resulting from the Energy Department’s […]

Areva is touting the performance of its Areva TN Americas NUHOMS used nuclear fuel storage systems at four nuclear sites following Hurricane Matthew, which produced 100-mph winds and wreaked havoc along the East Coast in early October. Operators took special precautions for the storm at Florida’s St. Lucie Nuclear Plant and Turkey Point Nuclear Generating […]

U.S. The Department of Energy’s solicitation for deep borehole nuclear waste storage field test closes Monday. The estimated five-year, $35 million project would produce data on the feasibility of storing DOE-managed nuclear waste in 16,000-foot boreholes drilled into crystalline rock formations. It is one storage method the Obama administration is exploring as an alternative to the canceled […]

A location near Nara Visa, N.M., is in the running with a handful of other sites for the Energy Department’s deep borehole nuclear waste storage field test. A group led by Georgia-based Enercon Federal Services, Inc. and DOSECC Exploration Services presented plans this week for a potential test site in Quay County, N.M., about 300 […]

A venture capitalist behind new plans for interim spent nuclear fuel storage and reprocessing in South Carolina said Wednesday he is reaching out to state utilities to further develop the concept. Mike Stake, who is leading the Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Group, plans to reprocess spent fuel from the state’s nuclear reactors at a facility […]

Progress must be made on both Yucca Mountain licensing and consolidated interim storage in order for the U.S. to reach a permanent solution for nuclear waste management and disposal, incoming Nuclear Energy Institute President and CEO Maria Korsnick said Friday. “I do believe it (all) needs to move together,” Korsnick said at a media briefing. “We have […]

A venture capitalist behind new plans for interim spent nuclear fuel storage and reprocessing in South Carolina said Wednesday he is reaching out to state utilities to further develop the concept. Mike Stake, who is leading the Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Group, plans to reprocess spent fuel from the state’s nuclear reactors at a facility planned near the […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A Holtec International executive said Monday that the company is reviewing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s communication with Waste Control Specialists to make sure Holtec’s eventual application to operate a consolidated interim spent nuclear fuel storage facility in New Mexico does not lack the additional information WCS is now relaying to the regulator. […]

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump skirted questions on the canceled plans for a nuclear waste repository Yucca Mountain in Nevada during an interview with local television station KSNV this week, saying he’s going to “take a very strong look at it.” Trump was asked why Nevada should have to store nuclear waste at a repository planned about […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A Holtec International executive said Monday that the company is reviewing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s communication with Waste Control Specialists to make sure Holtec’s eventual application to operate a consolidated interim spent nuclear fuel storage facility in New Mexico does not lack the additional information WCS is now relaying to the regulator. Holtec […]

U.S. Holtec International said last week its HI-STAR ATB-1T cask design for nuclear waste transport successfully passed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s 30-foot “free drop” test. According to Holtec, the HI-STAR ATB-1T is the first “large, rectangular” cask for high-level waste to pass the test without any breach of containment boundary. The tests require that casks […]

Conservation groups are speaking out against a venture capitalist’s plan to build and operate an interim spent nuclear fuel storage and reprocessing facility in South Carolina. Savannah River Site Watch, the South Carolina chapter of the Sierra Club, and the League of Women Voters of South Carolina issued a press release Tuesday ripping Mike Stake’s plan […]

President Barack Obama on Thursday signed a stopgap budget bill that freezes federal spending at fiscal 2016 levels and leaves the Energy Department with an annualized budget of $29.5 billion through Dec. 9. Under the continuing resolution for fiscal 2017, which Congress approved Wednesday after weeks of partisan bickering unrelated to nuclear programs, DOE’s program […]

Congress should create a new agency, separate from the Department of Energy, to manage American nuclear waste, the Bipartisan Policy Center recommended in a report released Tuesday. “The failures of the past decades are widely acknowledged and have been extensively documented,” former U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), co-chair of the think tank’s Nuclear Waste Council, […]

Conservation groups are speaking out against a venture capitalist’s plan to build and operate an interim spent nuclear fuel storage and reprocessing facility in South Carolina. Savannah River Site Watch, the South Carolina chapter of the Sierra Club, and the League of Women Voters of South Carolina sent out a press release Tuesday ripping Mike Stake’s […]

Congress should create a new agency, separate from the Department of Energy, to manage American nuclear waste, the Bipartisan Policy Center recommended in a report released Tuesday. “The failures of the past decades are widely acknowledged and have been extensively documented,” former U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), co-chair of the think tank’s Nuclear Waste Council, […]

Holtec International said last week its HI-STAR ATB-1T cask design for nuclear waste transport successfully passed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s 30-foot “free drop” test. According to Holtec, the HI-STAR ATB-1T is the first “large, rectangular” cask for high-level waste to pass the test without any breach of containment boundary. The tests require that casks maintain […]

U.S. The Energy Department has released a draft report for public comment concerning its consent-based siting process for nuclear waste storage. From December 2015 to July, DOE garnered more than 11,000 public comments on its consent-based siting process, which is the Obama administration’s strategy for managing spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste. The draft report, […]

A South Carolina-based venture capitalist backed by a board specializing in nuclear energy intends to submit an application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build and operate an interim spent nuclear fuel storage and reprocessing facility in the Palmetto State. Mike Stake – owner of personal concierge and handyman service Everything at Stake and chairman […]

The Lithuanian State Nuclear Power Safety Inspectorate (VATESI) on Tuesday issued an operating license for a new interim spent fuel storage facility (ISFSF) at the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP). The operating license allows INPP to commission the facility and begin hot trial tests with 10 new design casks, which involves loading the casks with spent fuel and […]

A South Carolina-based venture capitalist backed by a board of nuclear experts intends to submit an application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build and operate an interim spent nuclear fuel storage and reprocessing facility in the Palmetto State. Mike Stake – owner of personal concierge and handyman service Everything at Stake and chairman of the Aiken County Tea […]

The Energy Department has released a draft report for public comment concerning its consent-based siting process for nuclear waste storage. DOE months garnered more than 11,000 public comments on its consent-based siting process, which is the Obama administration’s strategy for managing spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste, between December and July. The draft report, titled “Designing […]

Waste Control Specialists said Friday it has hired a new executive to manage its license application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for development and operation of a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel. Mike Ford’s title will be vice president of licensing and corporate compliance. He replaces Scott Kirk, WCS’ former vice president […]

Holtec International is now eyeing March for submitting its license application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build and operate a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in southeastern New Mexico. Holtec had originally planned to submit the application in November, but spokeswoman Caitlin Marmion said by email Monday that the company “is […]