Vol. 10, No. 24 
House Panel Advances Pro-Yucca Nuclear Waste Bill
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC Chair Gets Expedited Renomination Vote from Senate Panel
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chair Kristine Svinicki took a step toward a new five-year term Thursday when the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved her renomination on a voice vote. The vote came just two days after the confirmation hearing for Svinicki and the NRC’s two prospective new members: longtime Capitol Hill staffer Annie […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Vermont Wants Say in Nuclear Plant License Transfer
The parties to the planned sale of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station have not proven there is sufficient funding available to carry out the full decommissioning of the shuttered facility, the state of Vermont said this week. In a filing Tuesday with the NRC’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, the state requested intervention and […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NRC Reviewing DOE Three Mile Island Waste Storage Extension Request
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on June 9 said it has begun the technical review of the Energy Department’s request for a 20-year license extension for storage in Idaho of debris from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. The Energy Department submitted the request by letter on March 6, after which the NRC carried out an acceptance review […]
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Decommissioning
NRC Staff OKs American Centrifuge Waste Shipments
Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff on Tuesday authorized shipment by road of various forms of waste from the shuttered American Centrifuge project in Ohio to the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site. The approval was signed on the same day that the NRC posted a Federal Register notice of its finding of no significant impact from the […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Duke to Start Moving CR3 Spent Fuel to Dry Casks
By Wayne Barber Duke Energy expects to finish building a dry cask storage facility at the retired Crystal River 3 nuclear plant in Florida sometime this year, and all used nuclear fuel assemblies will be transferred from the fuel pool into dry casks by February 2018, a utility spokesperson said this week. Crews will begin […]
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Decommissioning
Wrap Up: Nevada Asks Court to Dismiss Texas’ Nuclear Waste Lawsuit
The state of Nevada this week urged the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss Texas’ lawsuit demanding that the federal government move ahead with the licensing and development of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada. Judge Patrick Higginbotham in May authorized Nevada to intervene in the lawsuit filed in March against the U.S. […]