RadWaste Vol. 7 No. 41 DOE Bears Vast Majority of Former Commercial Uranium Mill Costs, Not Operators, IG Finds
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Transuranic Waste
WCS Gets Approval for LANL TRU Waste Storage in Federal Cell
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 10/31/2014 Waste Control Specialists received approval late last week from the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality to store the transuranic waste containers it currently is hosting from Los Alamos National Laboratory in its Federal Waste Facility, according to a posting in the Texas Register. WCS had already moved the containers […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
US Ecology Withdraws Michigan Radiation Increase Request
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 10/31/2014 U.S. Ecology has withdrawn a request to the state of Michigan that would have enabled its hazardous waste landfill outside Detroit to increase its radiation limits by 10 times the current limit. The Wayne Disposal landfill has been at the center of local outcry against the importation of radioactive […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Barrage of Legal Challenges Hit NRC Continued Storage of SNF Rule
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 10/31/2014 A flurry of lawsuits aimed at curtailing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s ‘Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel’ rule, formerly known as Waste Confidence, emerged this week, with four separate appeals appearing in a federal court. The challengers include many of the parties involved in the original suit that required […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Exelon Seeking to Avoid Decommissioning of Illinois, New York Plants
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 10/31/2014 As the nuclear industry fights against a wave of premature shutdowns, Exelon, the operator of the nation’s largest commercial nuclear fleet, has been vocal in the past year about the consequences that pre-mature shutdowns of its reactors in Illinois and New York could cause to local economies and grid […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Perma-Fix Pivoting to Larger Moly-99 Production Design
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 10/31/2014 Perma-Fix Environmental Services is attempting to pivot its design for the production of molybdenum-99 into a larger-scale version of its technology, Perma-Fix CEO Lou Centofanti said this week. The company announced earlier this year the successful demonstration of its technology to produce the medical isotopes used in millions of […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Clauss Construction Completes Nonradiological Demo. at SONGS
Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 10/31/2014 In one of the first demolition jobs to help prepare Southern California Edison’s San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station for decommissioning, Clauss Construction has completed ahead of schedule demolition of a group of buildings on the site’s east mesa. The contractor finished the job in September, focusing on a group of […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
DOE Issues RFI for Deep Borehole Disposal Field Study
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 10/31/2014 The Department of Energy’s Idaho Operations Office is looking for a host community to conduct a Field Test to demonstrate of the feasibility of the Deep Borehole (DBH) disposal concept, according to a Request for Information issued late last week. Deep borehole disposal for smaller packages of DOE-managed waste […]
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Recommissioning & Restarts
NRC Help in Potential Kewaunee Re-Start Premature, Agency Says
Company Seeking to Purchase and Restart Nuke Plant Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 10/31/2014 Any potential discussion on a path to restarting the Kewaunee Power Plant with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must go through Dominion, the owner of the site license, the NRC responded last week to RGA Labs, the engineering company looking to purchase […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NEI Seeks Changes to Security of Category 1 and 2 Quantities of Radioactive Material
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 10/31/2014 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has received a petition for rulemaking from the Nuclear Energy Institute concerning the physical protection of Category 1 and Category 2 Quantities of Radioactive Material, according to a notice in the Federal Register this week. NEI said the rulemaking is needed to “remove unnecessary and […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Honeywell Investigating UF6 Leak at Metropolis Conversion Facility
Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 10/31/2014 Honeywell is still determining how much uranium hexafluoride leaked after an Oct. 26 equipment failure at its Metropolis Works uranium conversion facility in Illinois. The leak began at about 7:35 p.m. and was active for less than an hour. The cause of the release was traced to an equipment failure […]
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Recommissioning & Restarts
Wrap Up
RW Monitor 10/31/2014 IN NRC The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced this week that it has officially enacted the exemptions for emergency preparedness at the Kewaunee Power Station. The Commission had approved the exemptions back in August after Staff had recommended the changes would not have a significant impact on public safety. Dominion will still need […]