Vol. 10, No. 47 
House Issues Another Short-Term Budget; Still No Money for Yucca Mountain
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Contracts & Procurement
Jacobs Completes Buyout of CH2M
Colorado-based CH2M on Friday officially became a wholly owned subsidiary of Dallas-based Jacobs Engineering, CH2M announced in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. More details about the merger will be disclosed Monday, CH2M said at press time. CH2M shareholders voted Wednesday to approve the buyout. The preliminary results of the special meeting […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
No Industry Interest in Spent Fuel Reprocessing, NRC Commissioners Say
Members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday it has been years since any U.S. company has expressed interest in developing commercial spent fuel reprocessing or recycling capabilities. “I think in 2009, the agency received some expressions of interest from potential developers of reprocessing capability in the United States,” NRC Chairman Kristine Svinicki told members […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Colorado Moves Forward With TENORM Waste Bill
The state of Colorado is restricting disposal of technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials (TENORM) waste within its borders while it advances potential legislation to regulate the material. Under Colorado’s 1963 Radiation Control Act the state is prohibited from developing regulations for managing TENORM prior to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency taking the same action […]
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International
Port Hope Project Begins Moving Contaminated Soil to New Disposal Facility
The Port Hope Project in Ontario, Canada, has begun moving radioactively contaminated soil from a decades-old storage facility in the municipality into a new above-ground engineered mound for long-term disposal. The Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI) completed the first cell of the new disposal facility in late November and began trucking in waste from the […]
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Decommissioning
Wrap Up: DOE, NRC Staff Sign on For Revived Yucca Mountain License Review, if it Happens
The Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff have both formally affirmed their intention to participate in any renewed adjudication of DOE’s license application for the planned nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The parties’ easily anticipated confirmations were included in responses submitted in recent weeks to an Oct. 27 request for information […]