RadWaste Vol. 7 No. 10 Federal Court Awards Duke Energy Reimbursement For Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Q&A: Waste Control Specialists President Rod Baltzer
The following interview with WCS President Rod Baltzer was performed last week by RW Monitor Reporter Jeremy L. Dillon on the sidelines of the 2014 Waste Management Symposium in Phoenix, Ariz. WCS appears to have really made some changes this year with the recent announcement of receiving approval for exempt waste bulk disposal in its […]
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National Laboratories
Doe Set To Restart Transient Testing At INL
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/14/2014 The Department of Energy has found no significant environmental impact to conducting transient testing of nuclear fuels and materials at the Idaho National Laboratory. The results clear the way for DOE to resume its work with the Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) reactor, which according to DOE, “involves placing […]
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Budget & Policy
WRAP UP
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/14/2014 IN NRC The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced this week that Renee Simpson has taken over as the director of the Office of Congressional Affairs. Simpson previously served on the House Appropriations and Senate Intelligence committees in senior staff positions, as well as in positions with the offices of Legislative […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NRC STILL CONSIDERING OPTIONS FOR YUCCA EIS
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/14/2014 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is still considering its options on how to move forward with the supplemental environmental impact statement required for the Yucca Mountain licensing review after the Department of Energy recently said it would not complete it, NRC Chair Allison Macfarlane said this week. “We’re still considering […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
NRC IG REPORT QUESTIONS HANDLING OF SLDA FUSRAP SITE
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/14/2014 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is coming under criticism for its oversight and record keeping activities for the Army Corps of Engineers’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program’s Shallow Land Disposal Area, located in Parks Township, Pa, in an NRC Inspector General’s Office report released this week. The IG found […]
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International
Q&A: IRID’S KAZUHIRO SUZUKI
The following interview with Kazuhiro Suzuki, Executive Director of Japan’s International Research Institute for Decommissioning, was conducted last week on the sidelines of the 2014 Waste Management Symposium by ExchangeMonitor Publications CEO Martin Schneider and RW Monitor Reporter Jeremy L. Dillon. To start, can you talk a little about what people can expect from your […]
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International
DUTCH MEDICAL ISOTOPE COMPANY WON’T MEET 2015 DEADLINE FOR SWITCH TO LEU USE
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/14/2014 A Dutch medical isotope company will not meet its goal of shifting to the use of low enriched uranium for the production of molybdenum-99 by the 2015 target date, according to a meeting held this week with White House officials. Mallinckrodt confirmed to White House officials that it would […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
OFFICIALS RECOMMEND NEW LOOK AT EFFECTIVENESS OF LLRW FRAMEWORK
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/14/2014 Members of a panel made of up of government and industry officials recommended a gap analysis of the current regulatory framework for low-level radioactive waste during a Nuclear Regulatory Commission public meeting held last week to discuss the NRC’s strategic assessment of the low-level radioactive waste regulatory program. The […]
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International
CHALK RIVER BIDDING TEAMS BEGIN TO EMERGE AS CANADA ANNOUNCES RFRE
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/14/2014 As the procurement to manage Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s nuclear laboratories moves to the next stage, at least three teams appear to have formed to go after the job, RW Monitor has learned. One team, led by B&W and including Battelle and the U.K. firm Cavendish Nuclear, publicly […]