Vol. 6, No. 38 NNSA’s ’22 Budget Request Barely Adequate, Joint Pentagon-DOE Group Tells Congress
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
No Interim Storage Licenses Without Governor’s Approval, Cuellar Tells House
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing process for two proposed interim storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel can’t legally move forward without approval from host state governors, a Texas congressman argued Tuesday on the House floor. “The law is very clear … that the governor can disapprove [of an interim storage facility],” said Rep. Henry Cuellar […]
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP Lays Groundwork for Resumption of Remote-Handled Waste Shipments
The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant has opened a training center in Carlsbad, N.M., to prepare staff for resumption of shipments of remote-handled waste at the underground disposal facility, the agency tweeted Monday. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) has not taken shipments of remote-handled (RH) transuranic waste using RH-72B casks since 2014, […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
No Sign of Ammonia Found at Tank Farm Area Where Odors Detected
Testing done in recent weeks by the Department of Energy at the Hanford Site in Washington state has turned up no signs the foul odor encountered by workers around a tank farm was ammonia from tank vapors, an agency spokesperson said Tuesday. Following last month’s incident three employees were checked out at a Richland, Wash., […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC to Conduct Special Inspection at Davis-Besse Plant Amid FirstEnergy Fracas
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is putting together a team to review a financially-troubled Ohio nuclear power plant’s response to several equipment failures and a recent reactor trip, the agency said Tuesday. Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station has experienced four emergency diesel generator failures over the last two years, NRC said in the statement dated Tuesday. The […]