Vol. 11, No. 19 
Major Yucca Policy Bill Clears House on Broad Bipartisan Vote; Heller Vows Swift Death in Senate
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Budget & Policy
House Appropriations Subcommittee Passes 2019 Energy Bill; Full Committee Markup Wednesday
The House Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee on Monday approved a $44.7-billion energy funding bill for fiscal 2019, including extra money for the planned Yucca Mountain radioactive waste disposal repository in Nevada. A full committee markup is scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday. The bill report, which provides a more detailed look at proposed funding for […]
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Decommissioning
AECOM Highlights Nuclear Decommissioning as Growing Revenue Opportunity
The growing market for decommissioning of commercial nuclear reactors could help offset revenue losses in other business lines at engineering and infrastructure giant AECOM, such as construction of gas-fired power plants, the company’s top executive said Tuesday. Like rival Fluor, AECOM is moving out of the market to build fixed-price natural gas power plants. When […]
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Vitrification & Grout
Perma-Fix Bullish on New Vitrification Technology
By John Stang Perma-Fix Environmental Services executives said Wednesday they see the potential for at least $5 million in annual revenue from a specialized radioactive waste vitrification system now being tested. In a conference call to discuss Perma-Fix’s latest quarterly earnings, President and CEO Mark Duff said there is enough contaminated sodium wastes at nuclear […]
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Innovation & Infrastructure
BWXT Moves Aggressively Into Medical Isotope Market
By John Stang BWX Technologies this week contended it by 2019 will begin operations to produce sufficient amounts of a critical medical isotope to fill all of North America’s needs. “We’d have enough capacity for all the North American supply right off the bat” for molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), BWXT President and CEO Rex Geveden said in […]
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Decommissioning
Entergy, NorthStar Delay Financial Answers to NRC on Vermont Yankee
By John Stang Entergy and NorthStar Group Services are delaying providing extra financial information to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the planned sale of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant by just over two weeks. The NRC has questions about whether Entergy and NorthStar have their finances in order to complete decommissioning of the […]
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Decommissioning
Wrap Up: Decommissioning Rules Package Submitted to Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Monday received a proposed package of rules for commercial nuclear power reactors making the transition from operations to decommissioning. “The proposed rule package was signed out by the Office of Executive Director and sent to the Office of the Secretary yesterday, so … the Commission has it,” […]