Vol. 11, No. 31 
Holtec to Buy Three Nuclear Power Plants for Decommissioning
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NDAA Goes to White House With No Funds for Yucca Mountain
The Senate on Wednesday voted 87-10 in favor of advancing the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which provides no support for shipping radioactive waste from U.S. defense programs to the always-controversial planned repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. This is the latest hit to the Trump administration’s efforts to resume licensing for the underground […]
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Decommissioning
NextEra Plans to Shut Down Iowa Power Plant
By John Stang NextEra Energy Resources plans to shut down Iowa’s sole nuclear power reactor in 2020, the latest in a series of announced shutdowns of atomic energy plants around the nation. The 615-megawatt Duane Arnold Energy Center boiling-water reactor, about 10 miles outside of Cedar Rapids, has a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to operate […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Orano Earnings Mixed for First Half of 2018
French nuclear company Orano’s revenue dipped by nearly $100 million over the first half of 2018, while operating income posted a large gain even as net income fell even further into the red. The Paris-based nuclear fuel cycle specialist, part of what remains of the former AREVA, reported 1.71 billion euros ($1.99 billion) in revenue […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Exelon Generation Net Income Back in Black for 2Q
Exelon Generation on Thursday reported a net income increase, on a generally accepted accounting principles basis, to $178 million in the second quarter of 2018, compared to a net loss of $235 million in the same period of 2017. Operating earnings were up year over year from $217 million to $331 million. Exelon Generation is […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NRC Wraps Up First Comment Period on New Mexico Spent Fuel Storage
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week denied the latest, and last, request to extend the comment period on the scope of its environmental impact statement for a proposed spent nuclear fuel storage site in southeastern New Mexico. Monday was the agency’s deadline for public input on this aspect of the broader technical review of the […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Former Waste Control Specialists Chief Starts New Job
Former Waste Control Specialists President and CEO Rod Baltzer said Wednesday he has joined another radioactive waste management company as chief operating officer. “I am the Chief Operating Officer of Deep Isolation … a startup company focused on the storage and disposal of spent nuclear fuel deep underground,” Baltzer said in an update to his […]
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International
U.K. Parliamentary Panel Won’t Rule Out Nuclear Waste Under National Parks
A committee of the United Kingdom Parliament on Tuesday declined to rule out construction of a geologic repository for nuclear waste under one of the nation’s nuclear parks. The House of Commons’ Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Committee published its findings regarding the government’s draft national policy statement for geologic disposal infrastructure, issued in January. […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Wrap Up: All Vermont Yankee Used Fuel Moved to Dry Storage
All spent fuel at the retired Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station has been moved to dry storage, owner Entergy announced Thursday. The transfer campaign, conducted by Holtec International, began in June 2017. It involved removing nearly 3,000 sent fuel assemblies from wet storage and placing them in 45 storage casks, which were then transported to […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
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