RadWaste Vol. 7 No. 43 Texas Compact Commission Pushes Back Rule Update Working Draft to December
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Republican Lawmakers Renew Pressure for Resumption of Yucca Mountain
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 11/14/2014 Republican House lawmakers this week called on Democrats to resume funding for the Yucca Mountain project and make progress on solving the nation’s nuclear waste problem. Although the Obama Administration shuttered the project in 2010, deeming it “unworkable,” the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s release of the Volume Three Safety Evaluation […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Centrus Reports Stronger Earnings in Latest Quarter Following Completion of Chapter 11
Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 11/14/2014 The reorganization of USEC into Centrus Energy has been a boost for the company, with Centrus reporting this week a net income of about $419 million for the third quarter of 2014 compared to a net loss of $44.3 million the same quarter last year. The company’s costs have dropped […]
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Innovation & Infrastructure
NNSA Adds Funding to Moly-99 Cost-Sharing Agreements With Two Firms
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 11/14/2014 The National Nuclear Security Administration will add an additional $8 million to its cost-sharing agreement with two companies trying to establish a domestic supply of the medical isotope molybdenum-99, the agency announced late this week. The NNSA entered into a cost-sharing agreement with the two companies, NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
WCS Financial Performance Improves in Third Quarter
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 11/14/2014 A robust third quarter from Waste Control Specialists helped alleviate some of the operating loss experienced in the first half of the year, Valhi Inc., parent company of WCS, announced in its third quarter earnings report late last week. The company reported $6.9 million in operating income for the […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Honeywell Restarts Metropolis Operations, Ups Classification of Release Event
Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 11/14/2014 While Honeywell restarted operations at its Metropolis uranium conversion facility this week after a recent release of uranium hexafluoride, the company’s initial response to the event has been questioned and the plant remains embroiled in a dispute with the United Steelworkers labor union. The Oct. 26 leak originated at a […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Vermont, Entergy at Odds Over Emergency Plan
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 11/14/2014 Entergy and the state of Vermont are at odds over Vermont Yankee’s emergency preparedness plan, especially the shutdown of the emergency response data system (ERDS), but a resolution arbitrated by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will not occur until December, Board Chairman E. Roy Hawkens […]