RadWaste Vol. 8 No. 33

Transuranic Waste

Q&A: WIPP Reopening Must Be DOE Priority, Rep. Fleischmann Says

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 9/4/2015 The reopening of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant should be the Department of Energy’s main nuclear waste cleanup concern, Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.)said recently. The transuranic waste repository has been closed to new shipments since a fire and subsequent radiation release in February 2014. DOE announced last month that […]
  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    DOE Consent-Based Interim Storage Personnel Emerge

    Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 9/4/2015 Names of personnel responsible for the Department of Energy’s consent-based siting initiative for a consolidated interim storage facility of spent nuclear fuel emerged this week, almost six months after Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz announced DOE would take a more active role in finding a host community. Andrew Griffith, […]

  • Commercial Low-Level Waste

    Q&A: WCS Battles With EnergySolutions Over Waste Containers

    Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 9/4/2015 EnergySolutions has prohibited the use of its type-A casks for use in shipping waste to Waste Control Specialists, WCS President and CEO Rod Baltzer said this week. The cessation of WCS cask shipments caused delivery delays for the West Texas waste treatment and storage company in the second quarter, […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    NRC Extends Yucca Draft Supplemental EIS Public Comment Period

    Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 9/4/2015 Following a request for an extension from the state of Nevada and other stakeholders, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week added a month to the public comment period for the draft supplemental environmental impact statement on groundwater effects from the Yucca Mountain project. Nevada had requested an additional 60 […]

  • Innovation & Infrastructure

    Perma-Fix Achieves Tc-99m Scale-Up Milestone

    Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 09/4/2015 Perma-Fix Medical S.A. said on Monday it has achieved a six curies radiation level for its technetium-99m production. Earlier this year, Perma-Fix said it needed to reconfigure its production process after realizing that market demand for the medical isotope used in millions of procedures annually called for a larger […]

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