Vol. 13, No. 48 
Ohio Legislature Extends Emergency Session; Partial Repeal of Nuke Bailout Still on Docket
-
Commercial Decommissioning
Host Community Forms Palisades Oversight Panel
A Palisades Community Advisory Panel has been formed in the Michigan-based Palisades nuclear plant host community. The plant is located in Covert Township, which had a population of just under 3,000 residents in the 2010 census and sits on the coast of Lake Michigan some 70 miles south of Grand Rapids. The township is located […]
-
Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC Rejects Nuclear Energy Institute Plea to Keep Force-on-Force Inspections on Hold
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission rejected a plea from the Nuclear Energy Institute to continue with its current policy of temporarily halting force-on-force inspections — simulated terrorist attacks on nuclear power plants — into 2021 last week. The policy, a guidance called IP 92707, was issued early in the pandemic and allowed the assessment of individual responder actions to be […]
-
Cleanup & Remediation
Nuke Cleanup Sites Could Become Home for New Reactors
Cold War and Manhattan Project locations being cleaned up by the Department of Energy could be viable candidates for new nuclear power plants, a federal official said during an online presentation Wednesday. About a dozen of the 16 nuclear cleanup properties run by the DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) boast “unique characteristics” potentially attractive […]
-
Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Year-in-Review: Trump Bails on Yucca, Interim Storage Won’t be Finished Before Biden
Had it not been for the coronavirus upending operations at nuclear power plants across the country, the highlight of 2020 might have been the Donald Trump administration giving up on Yucca Mountain. In February, with campaign season in full swing, Trump leveraged his influential Twitter account to make a swing-state appeal to Nevada: one that […]
-
Budget & Policy
Editor’s Note: Federal Budget Talks
At deadline for RadWaste Monitor, Congress was still debating an extension of federal budgets beyond midnight on Friday, when a continuing resolution that extended 2020 budgets through today was set to expire.
-
Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
PUBLICATION NOTICE
RadWaste Monitor will not publish next week in observance of the Christmas holiday, nor the week after in observance of New Year’s Day. Look for the next issue in your inbox on Friday, Jan. 8. Happy holidays!