Vol. 10, No. 37

Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

House Yucca Bill Attracts More than 100 Co-Sponsors

Lawmakers are piling on to co-sponsor a House bill that would smooth the way to open Yucca Mountain in Nye County, Nev., as a permanent nuclear waste repository. This week alone, 32 additional representatives associated themselves with Rep. John Shimkus’ (R-Ill.)… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Nuclear Waste Impasse to Grow Increasingly Expensive, House Panel Told

    The federal government is likely to rack up tens of billions of dollars in liability over the Department of Energy’s decades-long failure to meet its legal mandate to build a permanent home for spent fuel from U.S. commercial power reactors, lawmakers and panelists… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in […]

  • Decommissioning

    Palisades Nuclear Plant Closure Delayed Nearly Four Years

    Thomas Gardiner The Palisades Power Plant in Michigan will remain operational more than three years longer than planned, to spring 2022, owner and operator Entergy announced Thursday following the mutual termination of plans for state utility Consumers Energy to… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

  • Commercial Low-Level Waste

    Colorado Govt. Eyes Change to State Law on TENORM

    Colorado’s Department of Public Health and Environment hopes to persuade lawmakers to change state law to increase its ability to regulate disposal of technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials (TENORM) waste in state landfills. The state’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. […]

  • Commercial Decommissioning

    Pilgrim Plant to Move 600 Used Fuel Assemblies to Dry Storage

    Thomas Gardiner Degrading safety equipment in the spent nuclear fuel pool at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Massachusetts forced plant owner and operator Entergy to devise a plan to more than double its current number of used fuel assemblies in dry cask storage. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be […]

  • Decommissioning

    U.K. Issues Formal Termination Notice for Magnox Decommissioning Contract

    The United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) on Friday said it had filed an official notice of termination for the Cavendish Fluor Partnership’s contract to decommission the nation’s 12 Magnox reactor sites. The contract will now end on Aug.… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    WCS Deal With DOE Includes Study into Disposing of Problem Waste

    The Energy Department said Tuesday that it had awarded a $19.3 million task order to Waste Control Specialists for continued storage in West Texas of transuranic and Greater-Than-Class-C waste from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The Dallas-based… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • International

    First Cell of Canadian Rad Waste Storage Site Nears Completion

    Canada’s Port Hope Project is scheduled by the end of November to complete the first of four storage cells of an above-ground engineered mound for storage of radioactive waste, with transport and storage due to start early in 2018. The Port Hope Project, one… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged […]

  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    Wrap Up: Senate Committee Reschedules NRC Nomination Hearing

    The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has rescheduled for next week its confirmation hearing on Jeff Baran’s reappointment to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Baran will now appear before the committee at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Room 406 of the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

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