Vol. 9, No. 99

Commercial Decommissioning

Feds agrees to pay $145M to ex-Yankee operators in latest lawsuit over spent fuel

The federal government should pay $145 million for failing to remove spent nuclear fuel from three shuttered New England power plants over five years, court papers filed last week show. The payment, jointly agreed to by the plant operators and federal officials, must still be approved by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The government […]
  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Helene complicated EM’s final days as Savannah River landlord

    Hurricane Helene gave the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management one last emergency to deal with at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina before turning over control of the property to the National Nuclear Security Administration, a cleanup manager said Monday. Hurricane Helene “made for an interesting final weekend” before the cleanup office […]

  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    BW chief says regs ‘fetish’ a pain for nuclear

    “Regulatory impedance” is among the challenges facing the new nuclear renaissance, the chief executive officer of BWX Technologies, Lynchburg, Va., said Monday at a professional conference. “For whatever reason, western nations, developed economies, develop maybe a little bit of a fetish around regulation, control oversight, audit,” Rex Geveden, the BWX Technologies (BWXT) chief, said in […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    NGA document lays out radwaste definitions, disposal paths

    It’s not exactly radioactive waste definitions for dummies, but a National Governors Association task force has produced a document to help state and federal agencies stay on the same page when discussing cleanup of government nuclear weapons testing and production. “The purpose of this document is to help states impacted by cleanup at U.S. Department […]

  • International

    Ukraine’s nuclear plants reduced electricity due to military presence, IAEA said

    Military activities are targeting Ukraine’s energy and nuclear infrastructure, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement Saturday. Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi said in the statement that the Khmelnytskyy, Rivne and South Ukraine nuclear power plants were not directly impacted nor did they shut down, but their […]

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