RadWaste Vol. 7 No. 30 Publication Notice
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NRC Makes Few Changes in Final Draft of Waste Confidence Rule
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 8/1/2014 While stakeholders continue to wade through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s recently released draft final Waste Confidence rule (now known as the Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel rule), it appears not much has changed since the proposed rule was released last September. Much of the rule remains intact with […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
South Carolina Court Slams Barnwell Disposal Practices
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 8/1/2014 A South Carolina court issued a scathing decision this week against the Barnwell low-level waste disposal facility’s disposal practices, questioning the state Department of Health and Environmental Control’s license renewal for the EnergySolutions-owned Chem-Nuclear site amid concerns of water contamination. The South Carolina Court of Appeals determined an administrative […]
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International
UK Releases White Paper on HLW Siting Process
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 8/1/2014 The United Kingdom’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) released a white paper last week outlining the nation’s new approach to siting a geological disposal facility for the nation’s high-level nuclear waste. The white paper aims to rejuvenate the nation’s siting search after a planned site in West […]
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International
Fukushima Trench Strategy Needs New Approach, TEPCO Says
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 8/1/2014 Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) strategy to freeze contaminated water in trenches surrounding Fukushima’s Units 2 and 3 reactors is proving more difficult than initially thought, the company announced late last week. TEPCO had planned to freeze the contaminated water in the trenches in an effort to avoid spreading […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
SONGS Decommissioning Fully Funded, SCE Exec. Says
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 8/1/2014 The San Onofre Generating Nuclear Station’s decommissioning trust fund should adequately cover all the costs of decommissioning, Southern California Edison’s CEO Ted Craver said during the company’s second quarter earnings call this week. SCE conducted a site specific decommissioning estimate for the SONGS cleanup, and the company determined it […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Exelon to Push Nuke Shutdown Decision to 2015
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 8/1/2014 Exelon will not make any decisions about closing some of its nuclear fleet until June 2015, the company announced during its second quarter earnings call this week. Exelon is currently conducting an analysis to see whether the plants in question—three of which are located in Illinois—can maintain a sustainable […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Los Alamos Conducting Market Research to Find Type B Cask Vendors
Staff Reports RW Monitor 8/1/2014 Los Alamos National Laboratory has begun conducting market research to help find vendors capable of providing Type B transportation casks. Los Alamos’ Off-Site Source Recovery Project has recently obtained a Nuclear Regulatory Commission Certificate of Compliance on a “Type B(U) package which will be used to over pack shielded devices […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up
RW Monitor 8/1/2014 IN THE NRC Maureen Wylie has taken over as Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chief Financial Officer’s after being selected by NRC Chair Allison Macfarlane to fill the position previously held by James Dyer, who retired from the NRC in May. Wylie assumed her position early this week after spending 10 years at the […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
ORNL Exercises Option to Keep USEC ACP Work Going Through March 2015
Todd Jacobson RW Monitor 8/1/2014 USEC’s contract with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to continue work on the American Centrifuge Project has been formally extended through March of next year as the lab this week exercised a $41.6 million six-month option to fund the program. The extension, revealed in a July 31 filing with the Securities […]