Vol. 10, No. 44 
House Takes Thanksgiving Break Without Voting on Yucca Bill
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Commercial Decommissioning
New Lawsuit Challenges Spent Fuel Storage at SONGS
A watchdog group in California on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit aimed at preventing storage of spent nuclear fuel at the closed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). The lawsuit, from La Mesa-based Public Watchdogs, comes just months after a settlement to resolve a prior legal challenge against expansion of the plant’s dry storage pad […]
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Decommissioning
AECOM CEO Sees Big Future in Reactor Decommissioning
AECOM leadership said Monday it sees great potential in the nuclear plant decommissioning market in the United States, Canada, Japan, and elsewhere. The global engineering and infrastructure company is already muscling into the business. In December 2016, an AECOM-EnergySolutions team landed the roughly $1 billion general contract business for decommissioning the San Onofre Nuclear Generating […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Perma-Fix Revenue Down, Losses Up in 3Q
Perma-Fix Environmental Services on Nov. 10 indicated it is moving ahead with testing of technology for treating low-activity radioactive waste from the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, while acknowledging funding challenges facing its medical isotope program. The Atlanta-based based nuclear services and waste management specialist offered the update in a 10-Q filing with the U.S. […]
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Transuranic Waste
Opposition Brews to Interim Storage of Spent Fuel in New Mexico
Thomas Gardiner While southeastern New Mexico has been a hub for nuclear business, and its leaders eagerly pursue new opportunities, there is some pushback against advancing plans to build an interim nuclear waste storage facility in the region. “We have a rather long nuclear history in New Mexico, we have a nuclear cluster,” said John […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Citizens’ Group Advocates Alternate Route for Spent Fuel Storage
Thomas Gardiner A citizens’ organization in California is proposing an alternate means for long-term storage of spent fuel that would take the waste away from nuclear power reactors without necessarily relying on the Department of Energy building a permanent repository. Citizens’ Oversight says its proposal would protect key water resources found near many nuclear plants […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Texas Commission Wants More Data on LLRW Imports
The Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission has proposed a new rule intended to give it more information about imports of such waste into the state. The update to the Texas Administrative Code would cover most all low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) imported into the state that is not destined for disposal at the “Compact […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Entergy Could Face $25 Million Annual Decommissioning Fee for Pilgrim
Thomas Gardiner The owner of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (PNPS) in Massachusetts and nuclear watchdogs are questioning the effectiveness of state legislation that would force the company to pay the state $25 million annually for each year decommissioning of the facility remains unfinished after a half-decade. The bill was filed in January in the […]
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International
Wrap Up: International Isotopes’ Sales, Losses Grow in 3Q
International Isotopes on Tuesday reported that sales grew by nearly $500,000 in the third quarter of 2017, but noted that its net loss also rose by over $1 million. Sales totaled $1.9 million for the quarter ended Sept. 30, up 35 percent from just over $1.4 million in the same period of 2016, according to […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Publication Notice
RadWaste Monitor will not be published on Friday, Nov. 24, in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Look for the next issue in your inbox on Friday, Dec. 1.