Vol. 10, No. 22 McGinnis Appointed to No. 2 Spot at DOE Office of Nuclear Energy
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
No: NRC Didn’t Resume Yucca Mountain License Hearings This Week
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission did not resume consideration of the Energy Department’s application to license Yucca Mountain as a permanent nuclear waste repository, despite media reports to the contrary sparked by a routine notice published in the federal register this week. The notice that appeared Wednesday in the federal government’s official journal is essentially a […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Industry Group, Entergy Balk at Dry Cask Storage Bill
The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) and Entergy are no fans of a bill again being proposed by a trio of Northeast lawmakers to speed up the transfer of nuclear spent fuel into dry cask storage. Senators Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (ID-Vermont), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) reintroduced the Dry Cask Storage Act legislation May 26. […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
McGinnis Appointed to No. 2 Spot at DOE Office of Nuclear Energy
Ed McGinnis was appointed deputy assistant secretary for nuclear energy, a promotion for the long-time DOE civil servant who had been deputy assistant secretary for international nuclear energy policy and cooperation since 2007. In his new role, which did not require Senate confirmation, McGinnis is the number-two man at the DOE office responsible for civilian […]
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International
Radioactive Waste Shipments Safe, Secure: UniTech
There is no cause for concern regarding the shipment into the United States of 10,000 metric tons of radioactively contaminated material from Canada, according to a senior manager with the company that will process the waste. UniTech Services Group, of Longmeadow, Mass., in October filed for separate Nuclear Regulatory Commission licenses to import and export […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
International Groups Seek Truer Decommissioning Cost Estimates
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)-Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) – together with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – will soon publish new guidance on improving cost estimates of nuclear decommissioning projects. Simon Carroll, a senior analyst with the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, told delegates at the Nuclear Decommissioning & Waste Management […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Exelon to Retire Three Mile Island in Fall 2019
Exelon said May 30 that “absent needed policy reforms” it will retire its 837 MW Three Mile Island Generating Station (TMI) near Harrisburg, Penn., by September 30, 2019. Chris Crane, president and chief executive of Exelon, held out the caveat that the reactor could operate beyond that point if Pennsylvania follows the lead of New […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Voss Stepping Down as Head of Waste Management Symposia
James Voss will step down as managing director of Waste Management Symposia at the end of June. The organization helms the annual Waste Management Symposium, which is widely considered a must-attend show among nuclear-cleanup experts in industry and government. Voss broke the news late Tuesday in a widely distributed email. The text of that email […]