Vol. 11, No. 45 
SONGS Aims for Mid-January Restart on Used Fuel Transfer
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Budget & Policy
Senate Committee Approves DOE Nuclear Energy Nominee
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday signed off on the Trump administration’s nominee to lead the U.S. Energy Department’s Office of Nuclear Energy. Rita Baranwal, currently director of DOE’s Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Budget & Policy
Titus Tries to Head Off Yucca Funding in Next Budget
Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) this week called on the top leaders and appropriators in the House of Representatives to prevent any funding for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in her state in the next federal budget bill. “We are about a week out from the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Federal Price Tag for Spent Fuel Disposal Delay Hits $7.4 Billion
The federal government has paid $7.4 billion to resolve dozens of lawsuits from nuclear utilities over the Department of Energy’s failure to meet its legal obligation to dispose of spent nuclear fuel from commercial power reactors, the DOE Inspector General’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Same NRC Board to Review Intervention Requests for Two Spent Fuel Storage Applications
Three administrative judges of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel have been selected to rule on requests for intervention in the agency’s review of a license application for a planned spent nuclear reactor fuel storage… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Decommissioning
Data Shows Nuclear Plant Decommissioning Costs Falling
By Darrell Proctor POWER A research group that provides information to institutional investors said cost estimates to decommission U.S. nuclear plants fell in 2017 for the first time in a decade. The Callan Institute, headquartered in San Francisco, California, in a report released November 28 said decommissioning cost estimates dropped by 2.5% last year, to […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Pilgrim Fuel Could All Be in Dry Storage by 2023
Holtec Decommissioning International (HDI) expects to move all of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station’s used fuel assemblies from wet storage to dry storage by 2023, according to documents submitted earlier this month to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
US Ecology Explosion Probe Continues
By John Stang It is unknown how long it will take to determine the cause of a Nov. 17 explosion that killed one man and injured three others inside a US Ecology building about 50 miles south of Boise, Idaho. “US Ecology mobilized a team of national experts and… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Michigan Senate Considers TENORM Disposal Bills
A Michigan Senate committee next week will again consider legislation that would set specific radioactivity limits for disposal of technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials (TENORM) in state landfills. The bill from Sen. Tom Casperson (R)… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. […]
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Innovation & Infrastructure
Wrap Up: Utility Commission Decision Due Next Week on Vermont Yankee Sale
The Vermont Public Utility Commission is scheduled next week to issue its decision on approval of the sale of the shuttered Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Parties to the three-member panel’s review of the deal received notice Thursday in a one-sentence… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]