Archive
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- Senate narrowly confirms Marzano to NRC; cements Democratic control for most of Trump admin
- Lawsuit that banned commercial storage of spent nuclear fuel let antinuclear org run wild in court, Holtec tells SCOTUS
- Annual defense bill maintains, but softens discouragement of radwaste in Great Lakes region
- Congressmen have 11th-hour bipartisan bill for spent fuel recycling
- Kentucky congressman to chair House energy committee
- Six companies added to long-term DOE deal to supply domestic uranium
- Michigan legislature advances bill to limit radioactive waste disposal in state
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- Canada picks a site for a deep geologic repository
- Interim storage ban twisted law, ignored precedent, let Texas break rules, company tells SCOTUS
- NRC license for DOE’s unbuilt Idaho Spent Fuel Facility lapses
- Energy and Water approps chair says no ‘topline item agreed to’ for budget; has talked with Chris Wright
- EnergySolutions exploring deployment of advanced reactors on company sites
- Round up: Orano waste, MOX; NRC staff departures; more
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- Supreme Court interim storage arguments scheduled for spring
- NRC expects lower decommissioning fund minimums in 2024
- Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation consents to storage of spent fuel in Canada
- GOP challenger concedes race against House appropriator Kaptur
- Round up: Holtec open house; startups and reprocessing; obituary
- Publication notice
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- Biden’s nominee to fill out NRC squeaks to Senate floor on party line vote
- DOE spent fuel official says industry should back independent waste agency
- Trump plans to nominate fossil exec, nuclear-startup board member to head DOE
- Feds will pay $145M to ex-Yankee operators in latest lawsuit over spent fuel
- NY law prohibiting radwaste in Hudson River is about property, not safety, state tells court
- BW chief says regs ‘fetish’ a pain for nuclear
- Texas should consider ‘recycling,’ state-chartered group says in advanced reactor report
- NGA document lays out radwaste definitions, disposal paths
- Publication Notice
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- Consent-based siting of nuclear waste is a-political official says
- Rosen returns for second Senate term, beats Brown by a sliver in Silver State
- In lame duck pro-nuke plan, White House endorses geologic disposal, generic repository update
- Law confirming Canadian municipality’s candidacy for geologic repository goes into effect
- Centrus’ first HALEU batch will take 6 months longer, cost $24M more after equipment shortage
- Round up: Diablo ISFSI; Ontario greens and CANDU; Big ANS show next week
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- Judges question environmentalists’ legal recourse in fight about Diablo Canyon Unit 1 vessel
- Election digest: civilian nuclear power
- NRC shouldn’t give local man hearing over Palisades restart, Holtec says
- Stop ‘partisan work’ at NRC, House Energy and Commerce chair writes
- Round up: Japan interim storage; Fukushima sample; German repository search; more
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- Narrowly, a second Canadian municipality approves candidacy for spent-fuel repository
- NRC legal department recommends new mission statement to comply with ADVANCE Act
- Los Alamos transuranic waste okay for two more years in commercial storage, NRC says
- Oak Ridge kicked off property transfer process for Orano, manager says
- Centrus has loss in third quarter
- Round Up: Diablo Canyon review; Amentum reactor decom; Advanced reactor licensing rule
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- Supreme Court case on commercial spent fuel to linger into new year
- Canadian municipality began voting this week about hosting radioactive waste
- NextEra still mulling Duane Arnold restart
- NJ high court will not review state’s request to make Holtec return economic development funds
- Amid global surge in nuclear power interest, Jenkins says IAEA needs funds
- Cutlip to leave Centrus
- House committee asks for investigation of domestic competition to Russian non-fuel isotopes
- Round up: Brown down on Yucca; SONGS district looks blue; U.K. cleanup inefficient
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- NRC final decommissioning rule might take until February or later
- Enviros seek full-court rehearing of case affirming NRC authority to license spent fuel storage
- Palisades restart will generate 30k+ cubic feet of solid low-level waste, Holtec estimates
- DOE’s $900M funding infusion for small reactors includes offer to help with exportability
- Round up: Google and Kairos; Amazon and X-energy; China making glass; more
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- NRC considering, not committed to, establishing new export branch, chair says
- Holtec asks judge to throw out New York’s radwaste discharge law
- Wyoming legislative committee adopts draft bill to enable interim storage of spent fuel
- West Virginia legislature approves bill to become NRC agreement state
- Six companies get DOE HALEU deconversion contracts
- Oak Ridge, Tenn. taps brakes on airport plans after Orano plant announcement
- Round up: NRC promotions; Advanced reactors waste workshop; Consent-based siting grants; more
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- Supreme Court to hear arguments in case of commercial interim storage of spent fuel
- After merger with Jacobs’ government business, Amentum eyes areas of nuclear growth
- Obama appointees depart as Biden staffs up Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
- Senior Biden officials tour Palisades training center
- Former Yankee operators meeting next week to consider latest spent fuel settlement offer
- Congress should make NRC track less-radioactive materials to prevent dirty bombs, GAO says
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- Three-month stopgap, clean for DOE, passes Congress
- NRC board convenes to hear opposition to Palisades restart
- Senate committee to vote on NRC nominee after election
- On Capitol Hill, Centrus makes case for sidelining allied uranium enrichment
- DOE to host webinar about planned tests for spent fuel transports; extends deadline for test RFI
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- Interim storage consortia progress report due in December, DOE official says
- Constellation says it will restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 this decade
- DOE, ex-Yankee operators have until January to finalize settlement in latest spent fuel suit
- Deputy energy secretary says ‘huge strides’ for U.S. in civil nuclear
- Johnson’s six-month CR fails again; shutdown in seven working days
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- NRC nominee defends career in confirmation hearing, agrees with controversial commission decision
- DOE, Yankee operators finalizing settlement in standard contract lawsuit
- Vote canned on House Speaker Johnson’s stopgap budget
- EnergySolutions forms consulting subsidiary
- Round up: AI for the whole fuel cycle?; Ex INLers new gig; Centrus LEU deal with Korea; more
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- Fate of interim storage at Supreme Court could be decided by October
- Nomination hearing for NRC nominee scheduled for next week
- NRC will review seismic risks at Diablo Canyon, but not close plant, in partial victory for enviros
- Orano picks Oak Ridge as ‘preferred site’ for uranium enrichment plant
- ANS blasts Science over weaponizable HALEU story
- Baran is back: ex-NRC commissioner lands new gig at Department of Energy
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- States to be looped in ahead of next year’s RFI for federal interim-storage host site
- NRC charter law allows no spent fuel storage licenses, state, group tell SCOTUS
- Court tosses environmentalists’ suit against Holtec interim storage license
- D.C.-area antinuclear group seeks hearing to stop transfer of Palisades license
- Dems, GOP back nuclear energy, platforms say
- Round up: X-energy VP; Holtec tech at Palisades; Obituary
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- DOE formalizes loan for Palisades restart in Michigan
- NRC opens door to public hearings on potential Palisades restart
- Nuclear sector companies claw back from Monday stock market plunge
- Pipefitters end litigation over contamination at Energy Northwest nuclear plant
- NRC staff tweak final guidance on using decom funds for equipment replacement
- Centrus earnings rise amid federal push to phase out Russian uranium
- Consent-based siting, DOE waste issues discussion set for NWTRB meeting
- Roundup: AtkinsRéalis, BWXT see earnings rise; Wet storage time cut for Canadian plant
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- Nuclear Energy would get slight boost in ‘25 Senate appropriations bill; waste account whole
- Holtec to receive additional $150 million in state funding for Palisades restart
- DOE starting concept work on PR campaign for safe transport of spent fuel
- House Dem’s pay-to-pollute proposal has handouts for future repository host states, tribes
- Round up: Ex-NRC commish says ‘too late’ for U.S. repository; Diablo Canyon olympic link; Japanese interim storage; more
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- Biden to nominate nuclear engineer, Senate staffer, to fill last NRC vacancy
- House abandons planned vote on DOE’s 2025 budget bill
- NRC could finish Palisades reviews by next summer, chair tells lawmakers in hearing
- Waste disposal, or reprocessing, should be next after ADVANCE Act, lawmaker says
- Massachusetts finalizes decision to block wastewater discharges from Pilgrim
- Centrus gets limited waiver to continue Russian uranium imports
- Microreactor venture targeted by investment fund’s media shop
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- Industry group files in SCOTUS interim storage; no ‘major question;’ expectations shattered
- Restart Yucca license, says conservative policy blueprint for possible Trump second
- Ignace is willing host community for Canadian nuclear waste repository, township says
- New Mexico Democrat’s amendment would keep Justice40 funding
- AtkinsRéalis promotes COO to acting president
- Exchange Monitor 2024 U.S. election digest
- Round up: Partial site release at Clinton; BWXT TRISO in Wyo.?; Framatome Inc. CEO; more
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- Biden signs broad nuclear policy reforms into law
- Nuclear Energy office’s waste account whacked in first draft of DOE’s 2025 budget bill
- DOE starts market research for long-term consolidated interim storage site contract
- After failing once, enviros may still get hearing over Palisades restart
- No hearing for enviros about Diablo Canyon renewal request, licensing board says
- Three groups get get consent-based, nuclear-waste grants from Energy Communities Alliance
- DOE updates contractor diversity expectations amid House GOP pushback
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- NRC doing environmental assessment of Palisades restart; local meeting planned
- Newsom signs bill to boost PG&E’s Diablo Canyon life-extension loan
- Barwell is new NRC finance chief
- IAEA director touts ‘consensus’ with World Bank on nuclear expansion, wants double investment
- Round up: DOE budget bill in House; U.K. HALEU; Anti-nuke symposium on waste; more
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- NRC may finish review of GTCC rule changes this year, chair hopes
- House subcommittee’s first draft of DOE budget has extra for Nuclear Energy office
- Nuke groups, think tanks, urge rewrite of repository standards as part of EPA budget
- Compromise California budget bill for 2025 has $400 million more for Diablo Canyon
- NRC scheduled July meeting to consider enviros’ request to shut down Diablo Canyon
- Export-minded agency to host October civil-nuclear workshop at Oak Ridge
- DOE solicits bids for new commercial, domestic low-enriched uranium
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- Senate sends major nuclear reforms bill to White House
- Hanson sworn in for another five years at NRC
- Holtec in ‘apparent’ breach of state law over Indian Point wastewater, NY attorney general says
- House subcommittee to move bill with 2025 DOE budget
- Exchange Monitor’s Nuclear Energy Security Summit is next week in Washington
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- Supreme Court asked to hear Interim Storage Partners case
- Spent fuel guru at DOE envisions multiple interim storage sites
- U.S. commercial nuclear sector enjoys reversal of fortune
- $180M in fusion innovation funds announced by DOE
- Boston Government founder steps down as CEO
- Round Up: D&D manager dies; Executive to leave DOE; SMR in Savannah River future?
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- Consent-based interim storage facility remains years away
- Two developers picked by DOE for solar projects at Idaho National Lab
- Texas governor wary of accepting GTCC waste
- Baltzer appointed Deep Isolation CEO; Muller becomes chair
- Expensive cyber rules on the way for federal contracts, ex-CIO warns
- Round Up: Constellation undecided on TMI-1 restart; Army looks at microreactors; TVA Watts Bar gets new boss
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- Nuclear policy reforms navigating Senate gridlock
- White House hosts summit on domestic nuclear power; creates new nuclear working group
- State law restricting radiation discharge into river does not violate Atomic Energy Act, NY says
- Holtec announces slate of promotions, led by Trice as president
- No waste at Yucca, says front runner for GOP nomination to oppose Rosen in Senate race
- Adams appointed North Wind Services president
- Round up: ExchangeMonitor’s RadWaste summit next week; Korean repository bill dies; Palisades open house; NRC CIO
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- NRC’s Hanson to get vote in Senate after Memorial Day recess
- U.K. starting market research for construction of geologic disposal facility
- DOE to take bids for commercial LEU contract in June
- House appropriator Simpson wins Idaho GOP primary
- Opinion: Congress Wants to Solve Nuclear Waste. The Solutions Are Known.
- Round up: Atlas rides the rails; Trump TV; IAEA in Finland; obituary
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- Conceptual design work can begin for federal interim storage facility after recent milestone
- Nevada’s U.S. Senators file new bill to kill Yucca Mountain, roll back designation as repository
- Navarro, 2 other small businesses form Nuclear Services Partners
- Navarro, Deep Isolation form ‘strategic partnership’
- AtkinsRéalis reports strong 1Q earnings, rising nuclear tide
- Biden signs ban on Russian uranium imports
- Oklo shares crater on first day of trading, ride roller coaster
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- House passes nuclear-energy reforms with overwhelming majority
- Report expected by June on potential Canadian repository host town
- Orano gets contract for dry-storage expansion at Wolf Creek
- New NRC open records app is coming, comments wanted
- In official exit interview, outgoing NE secretary praises restart of consent-based siting
- Round up: Mass. delegation writes Holtec; Navajo pols and uranium; South Texas; more
