RadWaste Vol. 8 No. 47

Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

Wrap Up

IN THE U.S. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday announced that it had renewed for 40 years the license for the dry-cask independent spent fuel storage site the Prairie Island nuclear power facility in Minnesota. The Northern States Power license is now good through Oct. 31, 2053. The company in 2011 requested renewal of the […]
  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Publication Notice

    The RadWaste Monitor is beginning its annual holiday break and will return to your inboxes on Friday, Jan. 8. The Weapons Complex Morning Briefing will be published Monday through Wednesday next week, and we will publish special bulletins should any major news break in the interim.

  • Commercial Decommissioning

    Entergy to Expedite Vermont Yankee Defueling

    Karl Herchenroeder RW Monitor 12/18/2015 Entergy announced Wednesday that it plans to transfer its spent nuclear fuel at the shuttered Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant from wet to dry storage starting in 2017, two years earlier than expected. The $145 million project, under which nearly 3,000 spent fuel assemblies would be transferred into 45 dry […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Congress Adopts FY15 Appropriations Bill

    Staff report RW Monitor 12/18/2015 The Fiscal Year 2015 Appropriations omnibus bill adopted by Congress on Friday provides about $990 million for nuclear energy activities. The agreement includes no funding derived from the Nuclear Waste Fund. Legislators opted for a continuation of prior-year funding for the Yucca Mountain repository project, continuing Congress’ nuclear waste impasse. […]

  • Innovation & Infrastructure

    SHINE Moves Closer to Building Isotope Facility

    Karl Herchenroeder RW Monitor 12/18/2015 SHINE Medical Technologies moved one step closer this week to building its $100 million radioisotope production facility in Janesville, Wis., that is expected to satisfy more than half the U.S. demand for the medical isotope molybdenum-99. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff concluded during a hearing Tuesday that SHINE is both technically […]

  • International

    British Group Condemns Waste Move During Flooding

    Karl Herchenroeder RW Monitor 12/18/2015 Environmentalists are condemning the recent transportation of unused nuclear fuel from Scotland to England, following major flooding that impacted the rail network used for the 400-mile trip. The fuel, originally intended for the Prototype Fast Reactor at Scotland’s shuttered Dounreay nuclear facility, arrived at the Sellafield site in Cumbria, England, […]

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