Vol. 13, No. 34 
New Mexico Senators Want NRC To Pause Spent-Fuel Storage Application Review
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Commissioners to be Briefed on NRC COVID-19 Response
By John Stang The members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are scheduled to be briefed later this month on the agency’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The commission meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. Eastern time on Sept. 15. It will be webcast. The agenda has not been set yet, but the meeting will include […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Energy Dept. Schedules Webinar on Plan to Ship Recycled Savannah River Wastewater to Texas
The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management has scheduled a webinar for next week to offer details on its plan to ship some material currently classified as high-level radioactive waste from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to a facility in West Texas licensed for low-level waste. The online session is set for 11 […]
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Decommissioning
EPA Recommends Safety Additions to Very-Low-Level Waste Disposal Proposal
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission should consider additional safety measures for its proposed update to rules for disposal of “very-low-level” radioactive waste, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The federal regulator currently on a case-by-case basis allows land burial of this waste type in municipal and hazardous waste landfills that are not licensed for disposal […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Time to Finally Give Up on Yucca Mountain, Former DOE Official Says
Stakeholders must finally accept that the long-planned, still-unrealized nuclear waste repository under Yucca Mountain, Nev., is dead and needs to be replaced with a new approach, according to a former senior official with the Department of Energy. “The sooner everyone agrees to pull the plug on Yucca Mountain, the sooner the United States can move […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
The POWER Interview: Technology Can Solve Problem of Nuclear Waste
By Darrell Proctor POWER magazine Debate continues about nuclear power’s role in electricity production, particularly as it revolves around climate change. As a zero-emissions source of power, nuclear is seen by many as a complement to renewable energy in the transition away from coal-fired generation. Nuclear power, though, has detractors, who point to nuclear accidents […]
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Decommissioning
NRC Rejects Watchdog Petition to Halt Decommissioning at SONGS
By John Stang The Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week formally rejected an advocacy organization’s latest petition to halt decommissioning of the retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (SONGS) in California. On Feb. 5, San Diego-based Public Watchdogs submitted a 2.206 petition to the NRC that provided a long list of reasons that decommissioning at SONGS […]
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Decommissioning
Wrap Up: Army Corps Issues $11.8M Contract for Luckey Site Building Demo
North Wind Site Services has won an $11.8 million contract to remove the largest building at the radioactively contaminated Luckey Site in Ohio, under the Army Corps of Engineers’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). In a press release Friday, the Army Corps said the Production Building must be taken out to allow for […]