RadWaste Vol. 7 No. 7 WRAP UP
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
B&W AND TERRAPOWER ENTER INTO TWR SUPPORT AGREEMENT
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 2/21/2014 B&W announced this week a new a partnership with TerraPower to provide design and support services for TerraPower’s traveling wave reactor (TWR) design. The two companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding that said B&W will provide support services that may include “design and fabrication of engineered components; fuel fabrication […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
GROUP PETITIONS NRC OVER THREAT OF REACTOR POOL FIRE FALLOUT
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 2/21/2014 A set of 34 activist groups is petitioning the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to halt all reviews of new licenses and license renewals due to new findings the NRC staff reported in its Expedited Spent Fuel Transfer Proceeding that said a small nuclear reactor pool fire could render 9,400 square […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
NRC REPORT FINDS LITTLE RISK FROM SPENT FUEL TRANSPORTATION
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 2/21/2014 A Nuclear Regulatory Commission risk assessment report has found that the transportation of spent nuclear fuel would cause low radiological impact to the environment or public, even in the case of an accident. The report, commissioned by the NRC to analyze the effects advancements in transportation technology have had […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
PERMAFIX FORMS MEDICAL ISOTOPE PRODUCTION SUBSIDIARY
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 2/21/2014 Perma-Fix Environmental Services announced this week that it would form a subsidiary company, Perma-Fix Medical Corporation, which will focus on the production of the medical isotope Technetium-99 (Tc-99m). With Canada set to stop government spending in 2016 on the National Research Universal (NRU) reactor in Canada, one of the […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
DOE CONSIDERING ‘ALL OPTIONS’ IN REVIEW OF ENRICHMENT NEEDS
Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 2/21/2014 The Department of Energy is considering “all options” in its review of the national security requirements for a domestic enrichment capacity, Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Poneman said last week at the Sixth Annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit. A cost-share program supporting USEC’s American Centrifuge project is currently set to end in […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
USEC SEEKS TO STORE RUSSIAN LEU INTENDED FOR JAPANESE CUSTOMERS
Request Under Consideration by Commerce Dept. Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 2/21/2014 The Department of Commerce is considering a request from USEC for an exemption to restrictions on storing Russian low enriched uranium in the United States, a proposal being fought by competitors AREVA and LES. As described in a set of documents obtained by RW […]
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International
NEXT STEP IN CHALK RIVER PROCUREMENT STILL DELAYED
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 2/21/2014 The next step in the Canadian government’s procurement for a contract to manage Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s nuclear laboratories is still experiencing delays. There had been speculation that the Request for Response Evaluation, the next step in the process, would be issued last week, but that proved premature […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC ISSUES SRM FOR PART 61
Time of Compliance Reduced To 1000 Years; New Three-Tiered Approach Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 2/21/2014 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is moving to implement a three-tiered approach for performing a performance analysis for a low-level waste disposal site, including an initial time of compliance of 1,000 years—down significantly from previous proposals, according to the 10 […]