RadWaste Vol. 8 No. 28

Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

Monument Designation Creates Potential Yucca Transportation Issues

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 7/17/2015 President Barack Obama late last week signed a presidential order creating a national monument in the Basin and Range area of southeastern Nevada, while potentially putting the future of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage site at further risk. The Basin and Range monument includes an area that would […]
  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    Obama Administration Nominates New NRC Commissioner

    Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 7/17/2015 The Obama administration this week nominated Jessie Roberson to fill the vacancy on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Roberson, who currently serves as Vice Chair of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, would return the commission to its full five members. If approved by the Senate, she would represent the […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    DOE Moving Forward with Generic Interim Storage Design

    Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 7/17/2015 The Department of Energy is moving forward with the generic design of an interim spent nuclear fuel storage facility, according to a sources sought notice issued on FedBizOpps this week. The notice seeks interested small business-qualified contractors to prepare a generic design for a pilot facility and a Topical […]

  • International

    Senate Bill Includes Amendment Against Canadian RadWaste Repository

    Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 7/17/2015 Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) last week successfully attached an amendment to the Senate’s Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations bill that would invoke an International Joint Commission review of Ontario Power Generation’s proposed deep geologic repository in Kincardine. OPG plans to dispose of intermediate and low-level […]

  • International

    AREVA Awarded UK Decommissioning Contract

    Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 7/17/2015 AREVA announced this week it will provide engineering services for nuclear site decommissioning across the United Kingdom nuclear complex. Working with the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Shared Services Alliance, AREVA will work across twelve sites throughout the UK managed by decommissioning company Magnox Ltd., as well as the nuclear […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Wrap Up

    RW Monitor 7/17/2015 IN DOE Department of Energy Inspector General Gregory Friedman this week announced his plans to retire after serving for 17 years as DOE’s internal investigative official. Friedman will step down effective Oct. 3, 2015, which would end his run as longest-serving federal inspector general at a cabinet-level agency. “While the mission is […]

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