Vol. 13, No. 18 
Indian Point Reactor Retired, Putting Plant 1 Year From Full Shutdown
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NRC to Consider Regulatory Relief for Spent-Fuel Storage Sites
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled a meeting for May 8 to discuss means of relief that could be provided during the COVID-19 pandemic to licensees for independent spent fuel storage Installations (ISFSI). “The purpose of this meeting is to discuss how NRC ISFSI licensees can request temporary regulatory relief during the COVID-19 public health […]
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Decommissioning
Pennsylvania Presses Funding Concerns on Three Mile Island Reactor Decommissioning
Pennsylvania’s top environmental official on Monday expressed continued concerns about the adequacy of funding to complete decommissioning of the partially melted-down reactor Unit 2 at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Patrick McDonnell submitted a follow-up to an early April letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission as it […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
SONGS Used-Fuel Offload Gets Strong Marks in NRC Inspections
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week it identified no safety violations during three unannounced inspections in the first three months of 2020 of used fuel operations at the retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in California. The findings were presented in an April 28 letter from Greg Warnick, chief of the agency’s Reactor […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Experts Study On-Site Waste Disposal for Advanced Nuclear Reactors
A coalition of commercial concerns and research institutions is studying the potential for disposing of radioactive spent fuel from next-generation nuclear power reactors on-site rather than having to ship it to another, possibly distant, location. The parties hope by September to issue their findings from the feasibility study of on-site horizontal deep borehole disposal, according […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
American Nuclear Society Backs NRC Finding on Spent-Fuel Storage Project
The American Nuclear Society has formally backed preliminary findings from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in support of licensing a facility in New Mexico for temporary storage of spent fuel from nuclear power plants. The March 10 draft environmental impact statement (EIS) from staff at the industry regulator “provides a thorough evaluation of the environmental impacts […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Wrap Up: Spectra Tech Retains Idaho Spent Fuel Contract Through March 2021
The Energy Department has exercised a one-year option to keep Spectra Tech on the job overseeing spent fuel facilities at the Idaho National Laboratory through March 2021. Procurement documents show the department picked up its last option in February for the current contrac. The Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based engineering and environmental services firm began work on […]