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- Continuing resolution would take nuclear-energy budget boost off table; defense bill stalemate stalls nuke-policy reforms
- NRC staff recommend tossing environmentalists’ contention of Diablo Canyon fuel facility
- A week after notional deadline, round two awardees for civilian nuclear credit program unknown
- Centrus says it will make HALEU in October
- Round up: 20 mores years of Virgil?; Nuke operator interested in DOE Hanford land; Orano’s [literal] case for HALEU
- Former EnergySec Richardson dies at 75
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- Appeals court says NRC cannot license commercial interim storage; strips license from Orano-WCS joint venture
- Holtec says Palisades could restart in August 2025; NRC pushback on environmental review
- Waste board probes DOE on states rights, public disclosure of consent-based consortia’s work
- California court tosses enviros’ challenge to Diablo Canyon life-extension
- NRC staffing shortfall will clog licensing of new reactors, GAO says
- Round up: New NRC counsel; Fukushima visit; Abolish the NRC?; more
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- Holtec headed to NRC headquarters for open meeting about proposed Palisades restart
- To formalize financial aid to Diablo Canyon, Energy Department adopts NRC’s environmental reviews of plant
- Bipartisan bill to keep NRC inspectors at decommissioning plants is back
- Centrus CFO to retire by end of month
- Widespread power outages in areas near East Cost nuclear sites, but many restored after storms
- Round up: See SONGS by golf cart; New life for Perry plant?; Fukushima waste discharge this month or next?
- Publication Notice
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- Michigan approves financial aid for Palisades restart
- After Healey administration blocks Pilgrim discharge, lawmakers pull wastewater commission from state budget
- Shine wants to start conversation with NRC about planned spent-fuel recycling facility
- More than a month after passage, NY state ban on irradiated wastewater discharges no closer to law
- Round up: Vogtle Unit 3 online; Small reactor at INL; Fuel storage searches abroad; more
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- Senate NDAA passes, has nuclear policy reform, uranium purchase requirement
- Senate committee’s version of NRC budget has university grants, reports on telework, advanced reactors
- Massachusetts blocks wastewater discharges from Pilgrim
- EnergySolutions is stalking horse bidder for bankrupt construction outfit
- Senate staffer to be chief of staff at DOE Office of Nuclear Energy
- DOE wants to build big clean-energy plants at its nuclear sites
- Round up: New head of NRC investigations; tritium near the Mississippi; German waste repository search
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- Senate appropriators keep key nuclear waste funding account whole; tell DOE to move on interim storage
- Senate defense policy bill includes major nuclear energy reforms
- DOE weighing ‘options’ for Palisades financial aid, official says
- Large, bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers ask NRC to ease license rules for advanced reactors
- Waste Control Specialists to get $16.5M from DOE to move containers of stranded federal waste
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- Holtec overvalued itself in investor pitch; interim storage a money pit, ex-CFO says in lawsuit
- Feds not liable for utility’s pass-through of nuclear-fuel storage cost to customers, judge says
- Ohio budget creates new state nuke agency to promote advanced reactors, waste handling
- Feds urge Idaho federal district court to dismiss Butte County’s case against DOE
- Group gets about another $500k for more work on Diablo Canyon environmental impact report
- A year out of the merchant biz, Entergy announces slate of executive changes, promotions
- Round up: Canadian non-fuel waste rec; Japanese seafood ban; Trump and DeSantis on Yucca; more
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- Nuclear plant force-on-force exercises bounced back in post-COVID 2022, NRC says
- NRC down to four; Baran’s term lapses after Senate runs out the clock
- IAEA gives blessing to Fukushima plan to discharge treated water off Japan coast
- IAEA officials find no mines at Europe’s largest, embattled nuclear power plant
- Westinghouse seeks microreactor design approval with Canada, NRC
- Wrap Up: LightBridge, Texas A&M research fuel; NGA center lands DOE nuke funds; Livermore boss honored
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- Michigan legislature approves $150M for Palisades restart
- Senate leaves town without voting on Baran for NRC; commissioner’s term expires Friday
- NRC board should decide fate of environmentalist blockade of Diablo Canyon fuel facility this summer
- Comments due in August for NRC guidance on equipment replacements with trust fund dollars
- Ohio pol gets 20 years for nuclear bribery scheme
- New CFO at EnergySolutions
- Longtime fed Hendrickson, now working as Canadian nuke lab exec
- Hawley seeks oversight hearing on Granholm financial holdings
- Round-up: Anti-Yucca NDDA; anti-Palisades letter; new company lawyer at Centrus; nuclear maternity shoot at INL; more
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- House appropriators want to rearrange Nuclear Energy office’s funding in 2024 spending bill
- Independent nuclear agencies would get requested budgets under House committee’s bill
- NY Gov undecided on bill banning Indian Point wastewater discharges
- EnergySolutions sees Kewaunee as potential home to new nuclear generation
- NAC buys Niagara, sets up Canadian subsidiary
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- Waste storage before new plants; more public input for decommissioning, House Dems tell NRC
- On second try, Senate committee approves Baran for five more years at NRC
- NRC would escape spending cuts in FY24 under Republican spending bill
- New York lawmakers could soon return to Albany to ban Indian Point wastewater discharges
- Round up: SONGS decommissioning progress; Machin/Risch nuke export bill; DeSantis wants dump says Trump; more
- Correction and Clarification
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- Holtec having ‘conversations’ with potential Palisades operators
- Thirteen groups split $26 million in DOE funds to help agency define ‘consent based siting’
- Disposal pros critique low-level waste compact system, license reciprocity at conference
- Antinukers want to hurry up lawsuit against Diablo Canyon restart
- With hope for wastewater ban fading in New York, state lawmakers, antinukers pressure gov
- EnergySolutions eyes state approval for DUF6 disposal in 2024
- NRC chair visits Diablo Canyon as commission works to help keep plant on
- DOE drops draft solicitations for big HALEU contracts
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- Bill with NRC reforms, industry indemnity, DOE waste report, support for small reactors clears Senate committee
- Senate committee skips vote to reconfirm Baran to NRC after Republicans oppose
- Biden signs deficit deal; defense-nuclear programs largely spared from most cuts
- NRC advisory panel recommends approval of SMR permit at Oak Ridge
- Former No.2 DOE official under Trump tapped to lead energy trade group
- Round up: more local support for reopening Palisades; Mass. lawmaker again tries to ban Pilgrim wastewater; Constellation takes over Texas nuclear plant; ExchangeMonitor conference next week
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- Holtec says funding fight for Palisades restart could be won or lost by July
- Idaho county’s case for INL impact payments already rejected by courts, feds say
- Company has no right to develop coastal property near Diablo Canyon, judge says
- Budget negotiations creating logjam for 2024 spending bills
- House committee easily sends Russian uranium ban to floor
- Illinois lawmakers conditionally lift ban on new nuclear-plant construction
- Round up: Mass., Holtec wastewater tests; Another Monticello leak; New SNC-Lavelin Canada lead; more
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- Combined low-level, GTCC rulemaking headed to NRC commissioners for approval in November
- NorthStar to acquire, decommission GE Hitachi’s Vallecitos reactors
- Bans on Russian uranium advance in House and Senate
- To save space, ARPA-E seeks information on transmutation of nuclear waste
- U.S., Canadian org, sign agreement to share information about nuclear waste management
- Round up: Senate committee wants report on nuke credits; Connecticut seeks NRC agreement; Enviros pray for NRC over uranium in Tennessee
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- NRC licenses Holtec to store spent nuclear fuel in New Mexico; New Mexico pols oppose
- Republicans blast Baran as ‘impediment’ to nuclear renaissance in NRC renomination hearing
- Lower Palisades decommissioning estimate justifiable, NRC says
- Man can sue over failed imaging business with California reactor, NRC says
- BWXT to process up to twice as much uranium after nearly two tons of scrap found at Y-12
- Round up: Granholm hopeful about Palisades; Telework and morale at NRC; NM paper criticizes Congressionals over Holtec; more
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- Enviros sue NRC over proposed Diablo Canyon restart
- Holtec reports progress on Indian Point fuel transfers, negotiations with state over environmental monitoring costs
- NS Savannah, now minus reactor, to welcome visitors from the public
- Republic Services on pace to integrate US Ecology operations by end of year
- NEI plans decommissioning conference next year
- Round up: NRC weighs in on NuScale decommissioning; TikTok torched on commission devices; Vogtle 4 milestone
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- New DOE consent based siting report arrives; funding for communities on track for summer
- Manchin wants U.S. to help Saudis with nuclear power; says DOE rebuffed kingdom
- NRC board to hear enviros’ case for renewing Diablo Canyon fuel storage license
- White House sends Baran’s nomination for five more years on NRC to Senate
- Round up: U.K. nuclear waste report; Hostile op-ed against Holtec; Ex-Yucca surveyor dies
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- DOE interim storage news imminent, official says
- Biden nominates Baran to another term at NRC
- Cardin hits Hanson on Hill about NRC morale
- Round up: Markey a hard ‘no’ on using decommissioning funds for major equipment replacement; NRC will regulate fusion power, if there is fusion power; Holtec holds on discharge to Hudson
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- Holtec seeks $300M for Palisades restart from Michigan
- NRC guidance on using decom funds for equipment replacement coming in ‘late May’
- Enviros sue to stop Diablo Canyon extension
- Ex-academic threatens to sue NRC over failure of 60s-era TRIGA reactor and imaging business
- DOE releases contract to evaluate bidders for reactor bailouts
- Round up: Bipartisan plea for Palisades restart; Diable Canyon advisory add; next-gen nuke kids; more
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- NRC to stake out position on using decommissioning funds for equipment replacement
- Retooled Capito bill has nuke liability-cap extension, DOE waste reporting, NRC reforms
- Some decommissioning work at Oyster Creek delayed
- Osborne is new CFO for Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Holtec happy to help study planned Pilgrim wastewater discharge; won’t fund inquiry
- Holtec submits EPA permit mod request for Pilgrim wastewater discharge
- AECL seeks pre-qualified bidders to compete for new Canadian Nuclear Labs biz
- Round up: Senior decom managers, come on down; German power plants, shut on down; Slovenian spent fuel, come on in
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- Constellation turns in latest cost estimate for Three Mile Island, updates spent fuel plan
- NRC working response to NM gov’s request to suspend work on Holtec interim storage license
- NY town piles on opposition to Indian Point wastewater discharges
- Agencies brief federal nuke waste board on logistical challenges of consolidating spent fuel
- Leaky pipes replaced at Monticello Nuclear Generating Station
- Perma-Fix hammered in 2022, but COVID pressures eased and Hanford deal looms
- Round up: Michigan delegation against Candian repository; PG&E with fuel-use estimate for Diablo Canyon; New FirstEnergy CEO
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- New Mexico bans spent fuel storage
- Holtec meets with NRC to strategize on path to Palisades restart
- NRC will not make decision on Holtec interim storage license before May
- NRC to begin slate of meetings about proposed change to reactor-renewal environmental review
- Round up: PG&E thinks NRC is ready to move; Xcel on Monticello cleanup; TVA and SMRs; more
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- Nuclear energy budget would go down at DOE in fiscal 24; waste management portfolio would be flat
- NRC requests nearly flat budget for 2024
- Bill to block proposed Holtec interim storage site clears final committee in New Mexico House
- Consent-based siting the hard way and the only way for nuclear waste, NRC commissioner says
- Cortez Masto meets assurances about spent fuel cask safety with skepticism
- Householder found guilty in bribery trial; Former Ohio lawmaker passed legislation to save struggling nuclear plants
- NuScale on the hunt for more buyers
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- Decade or more til federal interim storage consent; ‘reevaluation’ of link between permanent, interim storage might be good, DOE official tells senators
- NRC dodges enviros’ argument about legality of Diablo Canyon operating extension in detailed agency decision
- Enviros vow to continue fight against TMI-2 decom after NRC kicks out contentions
- Wrap up: Nuclear waste administration act again?; Idaho sues DOE over ‘default repository’ status; too soon to tell on Fukushima decom
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- Despite opportunity for Palisades restart in second round of plant bailouts, Holtec exploring other options
- At DOE, consent-based siting success takes many forms
- No replacement yet for disgraced spent fuel lead, head of DOE nuclear energy office says
- National call for interim storage volunteers could include more cash, NE-8 Petry says
- NRC unsure if it will require approval of power-plant decommissioning plans
- NRC clears hurdle for Diablo Canyon extension, rules plant can run on expired license
- NM bill a threat to Holtec interim storage project, company exec says
- California Energy Commission recommends Diablo Canyon life extension
- NEI spent fuel lead ‘optimistic’ U.S. could have geologic repository by 2059
- Advanced reactor operators, ratepayers likely to saddle costs of spent fuel storage, Orano tech expert says
- NRC okays final decommissioned status for La Crosse nuke plant
- Shakir out at Westinghouse
- Wrap-up: Nuclear contributes to largest net generating change since ‘03; Constellation touts nuclear performance during winter weather; Orano’s new decom tech
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- Progressive Rep. Ocasio Cortez talks up spent fuel reprocessing during Japan trip
- Leveraging federal tax credits, Constellation to invest $800M in Braidwood, Byron nuke plants
- Diablo Canyon license extension perfectly legal, PG&E tells NRC
- Spent fuel milestone reached at Indian Point decom site, Holtec says
- High labor costs, low revenue contributed to 2022 loss for Constellation Energy
- Wrap-up: Vegas paper likens Ohio train derailment to Yucca Mountain; 15,000 oppose Pilgrim wastewater discharge; IAEA recaps year of Ukraine nuclear threats
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- Tenth Circuit scraps NM interim storage suit
- NV lawmakers reintroduce Yucca-killing consent-based siting legislation
- NM Senate passes bill blocking Holtec interim storage site
- Enviros petition NRC for details on Holtec’s Palisades restart plan
- NRC greenlights Church Rock waste disposal plan
- Income up at Entergy thanks to Palisades, Big Rock Point sales
- NRC weighing 40-year extension for Holtec spent fuel cask design certs
- Wrap-up: ANS recommends geologic repository standards; IAEA director meets with Russian officials; SCE pushes back on enviros over San Onofre shutdown
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- NRC commissioner says Holtec must start ‘from scratch,’ to power up Palisades; Holtec disagrees
- Bill blocking Holtec interim storage site headed to state Senate vote in NM
- DOE seeking consent-based siting czar
- Workers at Pilgrim decom site exposed to ‘unplanned’ rad dose, NRC says in violation notice
- PG&E seeking new members for Diablo Canyon decom panel
- ‘NIMBY opportunism’ hampering private interim storage progress, think tank says
- Nuclear renaissance now or never: 30 minutes with Bradley Crowell, Commissioner, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Wrap-up: EIA says nuclear just 4% of ‘23 generation capacity; No damage to nuke plant construction site after Turkish quakes; Holtec throws in on fusion tech
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- First interim storage funding awards by summer, DOE says
- Nuke credit applications to open by March, DOE says
- Texas fighting to keep interim storage suit alive
- Holtec to submit permit modification request for Pilgrim water discharge in Q1 ‘23; no releases meantime
- Pfluger, from interim storage district, joins House energy panel
- NRC awaiting admin guidance on COVID emergency wind-down
- Wrap-up: S-2 Turk talks up nuke credits with key Senate energy panel; Hawley joins Senate ENR; GE Hitachi inks first contract for commercial SMR
