Vol. 13, No. 27

Reactor Licensing & Regulation

NRC Staff Slowly Return to Offices

The vast majority of Nuclear Regulatory Commission personnel continue to work remotely, even as the agency last month began reopening its offices after a months-long drawdown forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. About 98% of the NRC’s full-time staff of nearly 3,000… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
  • Commercial Low-Level Waste

    Texas Commission Delays Decision on WCS Fee Reduction

    By John Stang The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on Wednesday delayed until July 15 a decision on whether to reduce a specific charge for disposal of radioactive waste at a state-owned facility operated by Waste Control Specialists. The Dallas-based… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Commercial Low-Level Waste

    Low-Level Rad Waste to be Shipped by Road After Railcar Fire

    A batch of low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) will complete its journey to disposal by truck after a fire near Chicago earlier this month on a railcar being used to transport it to Texas. “The transloaded waste is being re-profiled to be shipped by truck,”… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Companies Big and Small Eye FUSRAP Contract

    Representatives of more than 40 companies attended the June 24 industry pre-proposal conference for the upcoming contract for cleanup of the Luckey Site in Ohio under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). The Army Corps on June 26 posted the attendance list, along with the first tranche of […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Sierra Club to Appeal Latest Defeat at NRC on Spent-Fuel Storage Site

    By John Stang The Sierra Club plans to appeal a June 18 order by a licensing board at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that rejected its remaining challenges to Holtec International’s application to build an interim used nuclear fuel storage installation in… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Commercial Low-Level Waste

    Montana Finalizes TENORM Waste Rules

    The state of Montana in June formalized its new rules for landfill disposal of technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials (TENORM) waste. The state Department of Environmental Quality filed its notice of adoption with the Montana Secretary… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]

  • Decommissioning

    Wrap Up: NorthStar Wants to Ship 2M Gallons of Vermont Yankee Wastewater to Idaho

    NorthStar Group Services has requested approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for disposal in Idaho of 2 million gallons of wastewater from decommissioning at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. The agency on June 23 informed a subsidiary of the New… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

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