Vol. 11, No. 41

Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

Trump Suggests Rethinking Yucca Mountain, but Details Absent

Nearly a week after President Donald Trump suggested his administration could rethink its efforts to license a nuclear waste repository under Yucca Mountain in Nevada, there were no details on what such an approach might look like. Any new plan would run counter to the Trump White House’s efforts in its first two budget requests […]
  • Decommissioning

    DOE Eyes Sending GTCC Waste to Texas

    The Department of Energy said Tuesday it is considering sending the nation’s entire stock of Greater-Than-Class C and GTCC-like low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) for disposal at a specialized facility in West Texas. The proposal is addressed in a site-specific assessment of the potential environmental effects of shipping and holding the material at the Federal Waste […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    West Lake Landfill Owner Sues to Recoup Cleanup Costs

    By John Stang The owner of the radioactively contaminated West Lake Landfill is suing to recoup some cleanup costs from a company that generated radioactive waste sent to the site. Bridgeton Landfill LLC, a subsidiary of Republic Services, filed the lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Missouri against Mallinckrodt LCC, seeking an unspecified amount of money […]

  • Decommissioning

    NRC Finds ‘Multiple Performance Deficiencies’ in SONGS Spent Fuel Mishap

    By John Stang “Multiple performance deficiencies” contributed to an August mishap in the transfer of spent reactor fuel at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in California, and could have led to a storage container being dropped nearly 20 feet, according to initial findings from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. At the top of […]

  • Decommissioning

    Huntington Ingalls Looks to Enter Nuclear Decommissioning Market

    Warship builder Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) hopes its ownership of a nuclear cleanup business will offer an opportunity to break into for what is expected to be a growing market for decommissioning of commercial atomic energy plants “Our group is very focused on determining the right way for us to focus in the commercial D&D […]

  • Commercial Low-Level Waste

    Wrap Up: Utah Panel Nixes EnergySolutions Exemption for Depleted Uranium Disposal

    A panel of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality on Thursday rejected a request for an exemption to state rules to enable EnergySolutions to move ahead with potential disposal of depleted uranium at its facility near the unincorporated community of Clive. The Waste Management and Radiation Control Board voted against the Salt Lake City-based nuclear […]

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