Vol. 13, No. 25 
Massachusetts Settles Objections to Pilgrim Plant Sale
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC Staff Begin Returning to Jobsites
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continuing to weigh licensees’ requests for temporary exemptions from regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic while its staff begins to return to their offices after months of telework. Ninety-eight percent of the regulator’s nearly 3,000 full-time employees began teleworking in the middle of March, a measure intended to help curb the spread […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Low-Level Waste to Be Shipped On to Texas After Railcar Fire
Tons of low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) held in a railcar that caught fire earlier this month in Illinois will continue on toward final disposal in Texas, officials said this week. “The contents of the railcars are being repackaged into intermodals for removal from site,” under watch by the U.S. Department of Transportation, according to Illinois […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
EnergySolutions Aims for 2020 Utah Decision on Depleted Uranium License
EnergySolutions hopes this year to receive a state license to finally begin accepting large amounts of depleted uranium at its radioactive waste disposal facility near Clive, Utah. That would mark the end of a regulatory process that has stretched for more than a decade. State legislation enacted in March 2018 set three requirements for the […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Waste Control Specialists Studying Potential Greater-Than-Class C Disposal
Waste Control Specialists continues to study whether it should accept Greater-Than-Class C (GTCC) low-level radioactive waste for disposal from the Department of Energy, according to President and Chief Operating Officer David Carlson. The Energy Department in 2018 identified the WCS disposal complex in Andrews County, Texas, as its likely end location for the national stockpile […]
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Decommissioning
AECOM Promoting Chief Financial Officer to CEO
AECOM said Monday that Chief Financial Officer W. Troy Rudd would be elevated to CEO effective Oct. 1. Rudd will succeed Michael Burke, who is retiring after six years as chief executive. Lara Poloni will also move up to president from chief executive of AECOM’s Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) business, according to a […]
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Contracts & Procurement
GAO Dismisses Protests Against Energy Dept. Legacy Management Contract
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied two protests filed over RSI EnTech’s roughly $191 million contract to provide support services for the Energy Department’s Office of Legacy Management, which the challengers called unrealistically cheap. The Energy Department previously said the indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract could be worth up to $1 billion over five years, depending […]
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Decommissioning
Wrap Up: Texas Commission to Vote on Reducing Disposal Charge at Rad Waste Facility
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is scheduled to vote July 1 whether to approve the reduction in a charge for disposal of radioactive waste at a state-owned facility operated by Waste Control Specialists. The rulemaking would amend the Texas Administrative Code’s section on low-level radioactive waste disposal fees, specifically reducing the curie inventory charge […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Correction
An article in the June 12 issue of RadWaste Monitor, “Army Corps Issues Sources-Sought Notice for Alaska Reactor Decommissioning,” should have said APTIM Federal Services’ engineering contract for utility segregation for the retired SM-1A nuclear reactor at Fort Greely, Alaska, is worth roughly $2 million.