Vol. 7, No. 16

Cleanup & Remediation

Federal judge rules against Swift & Staley in Paducah site services contract

In a sealed opinion issued last week, U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Thompson Dietz ruled in favor of Virginia-based Akima-Intra Data, which had challenged whether Swift & Staley was suitably sized to win a $160-million Department of Energy landlord services contract at the Paducah Site in Kentucky. Swift & Staley on Monday appealed the […]
  • Defense & Military

    NA-10 nominee has support in Armed Services Committee

    Marvin Adams, the Joe Biden administration’s to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration’s defense programs from agency headquarters, has the support of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s powerful Republican ranking member.  Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) “expects to support this nomination when the committee votes,” a spokesperson for committee Republicans wrote Monday in an email.  Adams, […]

  • Commercial Decommissioning

    Wisconsin public service commission to make decision on Kewaunee sale by May

    The decommissioning company aiming to purchase a Wisconsin nuclear power plant expects that the state regulatory reviewing the transaction should make a decision before the summer, according to a recent letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The Wisconsin Public Service Commission (WPSC) has received its final party briefings and won’t hold any more hearings on […]

  • Advanced Nuclear & SMRs

    Young people less concerned about nuclear waste, X-Energy CEO says

    SUN VALLEY, IDAHO — Young people are more interested in building out zero-carbon energy technologies like advanced nuclear reactors than addressing spent nuclear fuel storage, an advanced reactor company executive said here Monday. People under 35 are more concerned about “waste from a tailpipe” than they are about waste from nuclear power plants, X-Energy CEO […]

  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    NRC decom budget up for ‘23 to account for more shutdowns

    Another nuclear plant closure is partly to blame for a slight increase in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s proposed decommissioning budget for the 2023 fiscal year, the agency said in a budget justification document published Monday. Projected spending for NRC’s decommissioning and low-level waste program was up to around $23.9 million for 2023, according to the […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Fluor-BWXT should address health, safety gaps at Portsmouth, Assessment Office finds

    Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth, the deactivation and demolition contractor at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio, should tighten up work control shortcomings that could endanger employee health and safety, according to a new Department of Energy analysis. While the contractor “generally meets the fundamental expectations” of safety requirements, it needs a comprehensive industrial hygiene effort to ensure workplace […]

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