RadWaste Vol. 8 No. 45

Commercial Low-Level Waste

Wrap Up

IN THE INDUSTRY Amec Foster Wheeler has announced details in its survey of about 1.2 million cubic meters of historic low-level radioactive waste from multiple sites in Ontario, Canada. The company announced Tuesday it is using an ORION ScanPlotSM overland radiation survey system in collecting radiological data. The work is a result of a Canadian […]
  • International

    Canada Continues to Weigh Lake Huron Repository

    Karl Herchenroeder RW Monitor 12/4/2015 In deciding whether Canada will move forward with building a deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel near Lake Huron, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency said Monday that officials must decide whether Ontario Power Generation’s proposal is likely to cause “significant adverse environmental effects.” The agency’s statement follows Friday’s announcement […]

  • Commercial Decommissioning

    SCE Expects Three Bids For SONGS Decommissioning Contract

    Staff report RW Monitor 12/4/2015 Southern California Edison (SCE) said this week it expects three bids in January from contractors for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s estimated $4.4 billion decommissioning general contract. SCE spokeswoman Maureen Brown said the company anticipates bids from the following groups: Bechtel and Westinghouse; Team Holtec, a newly established, wholly […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Expert: Nuclear Waste Fund Needs Independent Oversight

    Karl Herchenroeder RadWaste Monitor 12/4/2015 Congress should establish and oversee an independent body to manage the multibillion-dollar Nuclear Waste Fund (NWF), a Montana state official told a congressional panel on Thursday. The NWF was created to fund radioactive waste disposal activities authorized by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, a federal law that established […]

  • Recommissioning & Restarts

    New Plan Floated to Keep FitzPatrick Plant Open

    Karl Herchenroeder RW Monitor 12/4/2015 On the heels of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement that the state will develop a new clean energy standard, energy company Exelon said Wednesday it is willing to sell fuel to the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant at a cost should it mean the plant remains open in […]

  • International

    Australia, France Don’t Agree on Aussie Waste Designation

    Karl Herchenroeder RW Monitor 12/4/2015 French and Australian officials have reportedly given different classifications to 10 metric tons of radioactive waste aboard a ship scheduled to dock this week in Sydney. The BBC Shanghai is carrying the material back from France, where it underwent reprocessing. While France has classified the cargo as high-level waste, the […]

  • International

    Holtec Announces First Canister Shipment to Chernobyl

    Karl Herchenroeder RW Monitor 12/4/2015 The first 10 canisters for dry interim nuclear fuel storage have been delivered to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, State Specialised Enterprise ChNPP announced Thursday. As part of a 2007 agreement signed between Ukraine and U.S.-based Holtec International, the double-walled canisters are projected to store all spent fuel […]

  • Commercial Low-Level Waste

    Correction

    The Nov. 20 edition of RadWaste Monitor misidentified the manager of a LLRW disposal site in Beatty, Nev. The state of Nevada manages the site. The article also misattributed fines the EPA issued in 2010. The fines relate to an adjacent US Ecology RCRA facility.

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