Vol. 13, No. 38 
Texas Governor Appeals to Trump With Complaint Over Spent Fuel Proposals
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
FirstEnergy Denies it Passed Lobbying Costs to Ratepayers
FirstEnergy couldn’t have possibly imposed fees associated with its lobbying for Ohio House Bill 6 on ratepayers because rates for those customers were set in 2008, the company argued in response to a Public Utilities Commission of Ohio probe this week. Rates… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Florida Regulator Greenlights Contract for Crystal River Decommissioning
The Florida Public Service Commission approved a $540 million fixed-price contract between Duke Energy and Accelerated Decommissioning Partners for the decommissioning of the Crystal River nuclear plant in Florida on Thursday. Accelerated Decommissioning Partners… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. Email or […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Holtec Denounces Lacey Township’s “Naiveté” in Lawsuit Filing
In a scathing court filing this week, Holtec International slammed Lacey Township’s reasoning for rejecting a key part of the company’s plan to expand spent fuel storage space for the shuttered Oyster Creek power plant in New Jersey. The Florida-based company… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Industry Group Looks Back on COVID-19 Outbreak During Reactor Outage
By John Stang Since a COVID-19 outbreak during a reactor outage in May, social distancing and wearing masks to slow the spread of the disease have cut down on colds and other communicable illnesses among temporary workers used for reactor maintenance, an industry… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Budget & Policy
NRC to Keep Chugging Along Under CR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will continue carrying out its duties after President Trump signed a stopgap funding bill Wednesday night averting a government shutdown, spokesman Scott Burnell said Thursday. Burnell did not elaborate on how operations… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Deadline to Repeal Householder Bill Passes With No Action
The deadline to repeal a contentious bill pushed through the Ohio state legislature by former House Speaker Larry Householder passed on Thursday, making a $0.85 utility rate increase for ratepayers across the state all but imminent. That’s despite Householder’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Funding For a Post-Nuclear Town
A New York congresswoman announced a $3 million relief package for the site of the soon-to-be-decommissioned Indian Point Energy Center in New York to help revitalize the local economy on Wednesday. Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) plans to use the funding to create a… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
SM1-A Environmental Assessment to be Completed by March
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to finish the draft Environmental Assessment for the proposed decommissioning of the SM-1A reactor at Fort Greely in Alaska by March 2021, according to an update released Friday. The Corps visited the site in September to… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
Deadline to Drop Out of Historic Small Reactor Project Extended by a Month
The group of cities that originally signed on to buy the energy produced by NuScales Power small reactors has agreed to extend the deadline to drop out of the project by another month after two have withdrawn over cost and waste concerns. The original deadline… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be […]