Vol. 10, No. 29 
No Yucca Money for DOE or NRC in 2018, Under Senate Committee’s Budget
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Budget & Policy
Senate Appropriators Cut NRC Funding Request
By Wayne Barber The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday easily passed a fiscal 2018 energy and water spending bill that includes a $25 million cut to the budget request for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The nuclear industry regulator requested $952 million for the budget year beginning Oct. 1, encompassing all salaries and expenses and funding […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
No Word on Waste Control Specialists’ Spent Fuel Site Plans, NRC Says
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission as of Wednesday had not received word on whether Waste Control Specialists intends to move ahead with its suspended application for a spent nuclear fuel storage site in the wake of the company’s foiled merger with rival EnergySolutions. “We have not heard of any change from WCS,” NRC spokesman David McIntyre […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Federal Circuit Busy With Spent Fuel Cases
By Wayne Barber The U.S. Court of Federal Claims continues to be an active venue for nuclear power companies to seek reimbursement from the U.S. government for the Energy Department’s ongoing breach of its legal obligation to take possession of spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors. The Federal Circuit held in 2000 that the department […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Heller’s Las Vegas Office Burglarized, Paper Says
Sen. Dean Heller’s (R-Nev.) Las Vegas office was burglarized Sunday morning, the Las Vegas Sun newspaper reported. An aide to Heller confirmed the apparent break-in but declined to comment further about the ongoing investigation by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The Sun, citing a source, said the burglar or burglars might have left a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
University Eyes Congressional Funding to Complete SEFOR Cleanup
The University of Arkansas hopes Congress will soon come through with the last $10.1 million needed to complete cleanup of the long-disused Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor (SEFOR) facility. The university aims in October to begin the third and final phase of the nearly decade-long remediation program, which would involve removing the plant reactor and […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Wrap Up: No Drama Over Nuclear Merchant Ship in House Committee Mark
The U.S. Transportation Department would receive the $3 million it requested for fiscal 2018 to continue storing a retired nuclear-powered freighter in Baltimore Harbor as part of a $56.5-billion Transportation, Housing and Urban Development spending bill the House Appropriations Committee approved Monday. The merchant ship NS Savannah, now moored at Canton Marine Terminal’s Pier 13, was launched in […]