Vol. 13, No. 3 
Yucca Mountain Could Be on the Docket Again in FY21 Budget
-
Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Industry, Feds Begin Meetings on Used-Fuel Storage Licensing Efficiences
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled the first in a planned series of workshops for next week to consider a set of recommendations from the nuclear industry to increase efficiency in licensing of dry storage systems for radioactive spent fuel at… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
-
Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Lawmakers Question Potential Reduction in NRC Spent-Fuel Storage Inspections
By John Stang One senator expressed concern Wednesday about the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s consideration of cutting back on inspections of spent fuel storage facilities at the nation’s nuclear power plants. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) raised the issue… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
-
Decommissioning
PG&E Slices Diablo Canyon Decommissioning Cost Estimate by $900M
By John Stang A proposed settlement agreement contends that decommissioning of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California later this decade can be done for $900 million less than previously estimated. On Jan. 10, plant owner Pacific Gas & Electric… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
-
Decommissioning
New York State Protests Planned Indian Point Staffing Reductions
The state of New York is objecting to a request by power company Entergy for federal approval to reduce staffing at the Indian Point Energy Center as its two remaining operational reactors are retired over the next 16 months. Three separate state agencies have… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged […]
-
Decommissioning
NRC Reduces Insurance Requirements for Pilgrim Plant
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week it has reduced the liability insurance requirements for both on-site and off-site damage at the retired Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Massachusetts. The agency issued the regulatory exemptions to subsidiaries… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
-
Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Entergy Sues U.S. Again Over Spent Fuel Costs
The Louisiana branch of power company Entergy last week filed another lawsuit seeking to recoup ongoing expenses for management of spent reactor fuel that the federal government is legally obligated to remove from the River Bend Station nuclear power plant. This… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
-
Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC Cites Two Violations at Westinghouse Fuel Plant
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week cited a Westinghouse fuel facility in South Carolina with two violations of federal nuclear rules, but details were scarce this week. The two Severity Level IV violations were identified in an inspection of the Columbia… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
-
Non-Proliferation
DOE Delays Ban on Exporting HEU to Make Medical Isotopes Abroad
In a New Year’s boon for Belgium’s Institute for Radioelements, the U.S. Department of Energy has postponed by two years a ban on exporting U.S.-origin, weapon-usable uranium for the production of medical isotopes. “[C]urrent global supplies of Mo-99 [Molybdenum… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
-
Budget & Policy
Wrap Up: Undersecretary Menezes Given More Work at Energy Dept.
U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette has started off the new year by giving more authority to DOE Undersecretary of Energy Mark Menezes, effectively making him acting second in command at the agency until a deputy is in place. Brouillette said in a Jan. 10 email… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be […]