Vol. 13, No. 39 
USACE Submits Plan, Opens Comment Period for New York FUSRAP Site
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Locals, Public Grumble About Rail Trips in Public Meeting for Interim Storage Site; NRC Won’t Extend Comment Period
By John Stang Transportation, potential terrorism and environmental justice were among the concerns voiced Thrusday at web-based public hearing on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s draft environmental impact statement on Interim Storage Partners’ proposal to build a spent nuclear fuel storage site in western Texas. “We don’t want high-level radioactive wastes dumped in our home,” said […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Defeated Ohio House Candidate Sues FirstEnergy, Householder; Repeal of Nuke Bailout Uncertain; FirstEnergy May Continue Lobbying
A defeated 2018 Republican candidate for the Ohio House of Representatives is suing FirstEnergy, former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and others for subsidizing “defamatory” campaign ads against him in a blatant attempt to get one of Householder’s preferred candidates elected instead. Bobby Mitchell alleges First Energy pushed money through a non-profit called Generation Now […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Eastham Voters Ask for Better Security at Oyster Plant; NRC Says “What?”
Voters in Eastham, Massachusetts, the site of the decommissioned Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, voted overwhelmingly in favor of asking Gov. Charlie Baker to amp up security at the plant. The NRC “hasn’t heard anything” from Eastham, spokesman David McIntyre wrote in an email Thursday. He added that the Atomic Energy Act gives the NRC — […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
SONGS-Critical California Activist Group Seeks Funding for Cancer Research
A California activist group wants federal money to fund cancer research in communities living near power plants — an effort suggested by the National Academy of Sciences years ago but ultimately dropped by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission due to cost. The petition is organized by the Samuel Lawrence Foundation, a Del Mar, Calif., nonprofit that’s […]
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International
French Nuclear Company Opens New Uranium Recovery Facility
Framatome, a French nuclear reactor company, has opened a brand-new $20 million uranium recovery facility at its 50-year-old fuel manufacturing site in Richland, Washington. The 11,000-square-foot recovery site will recover uranium from the fuel manufacturing process. Framatome signed multimillion-dollar contracts with the Tennessee Valley Authority earlier this year for work at the Browns Ferry Nuclear […]
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International
Life of Brazil’s Only Nuclear Plant Extended 20 Years
Eletronuclear, Brazil’s state-run utility, gave Westinghouse Electric Company a contract to extend operations by 20 years at the country’s only functioning nuclear power plant. The duo will conduct engineering analyses to prolong the life of the Angra 1 plant to 2044 from 2024. The analyses will be facilitated to maintain the plant’s safety and longevity […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Markets Wrap
US Ecology will post expected sales of $237.85 million this quarter, MarketBeat reports. Zacks analysts project the company’s earnings — expected to come out Nov. 4 — will hit at least $235 million and at most $240 million in the third quarter, around 42% more than the same quarter last year. AECOM Chief Operating Officer […]