RadWaste Vol. 7 No. 37

Commercial Decommissioning

SAFESTOR Process Needs Conservative Decommissioning Trust Fund Mgmt., Industry Officials Say

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 10/3/2014 MIAMI—As a majority of the recently shutdown reactor plants enter the beginning stages of SAFESTOR, the overseers of the decommissioning plans of the various sites emphasized the importance of spending conservatively on the front end to ensure the decommissioning trust fund will have enough money to cover the total […]
  • Commercial Decommissioning

    Teams Emerge in SONGS Bidding Process

    Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 10/3/2014 As Southern California Edison determines the best way to manage the decommissioning of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, at least seven teams have responded to the utility’s Request for Information about managing the estimated $4.4 billion cleanup project, RW Monitor has learned. According to an industry executive, pre-qualifications […]

  • Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle

    CEO John Welch Steps Down as USEC Transitions to Centrus Energy Corp.

    Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 10/3/2014 As USEC became Centrus Energy Corp. this week after completing Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring, in its first major action longtime President and Chief Executive Officer John Welch announced his plans to step down. Welch, who has served as head of the uranium enrichment firm since October 2005, plans to leave […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Enviro. Groups Threaten Litigation on Waste Confidence

    Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 10/3/2014 A collection of environmental groups this week threatened the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with litigation if it did not vacate its Continued of Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel rulemaking. The group, made up of 17 environmental activist groups, claims the NRC’s final rulemaking fails to properly address the repository issue […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Second Five-Year Plan for Navajo Cleanup Provides More Detailed Path Forward

    Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 10/3/2014 Assessing contaminated sites within the Navajo Nation and focusing on the cleanup of the Northeast Church Rock Mine Site and Tuba City Dump topped the priority list for the Environmental Protection Agency and four other federal agencies in their second five year plan to address the uranium contamination within […]

  • International

    NDA Provides More Details on UK Repository Screening Process

    Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 10/3/2014 The United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority elaborated late last week on how Radioactive Waste Management Limited (RWM), the responsible organization for the construction of a repository for the nation’s high level waste, will conduct the initial geologic screening to determine potential host sites for a disposal facility. In a […]

  • Advanced Nuclear & SMRs

    Wrap Up

    RW Monitor 10/3/2014 IN DOE The Department of Energy this week issued a draft solicitation for up to $12.6 billion in loan guarantees for advanced nuclear energy projects. The four key areas of interest include advanced nuclear reactors, small modular reactors, upgrades at existing facilities, and $2 billion for front-end nuclear projects such as uranium […]

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