Vol. 13, No. 6 
White House Won’t Seek Yucca Mountain Funding in New Budget
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Canadian Utility Terminates Plan for Rad Waste Repository at Power Plant
Canadian utility Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has formally terminated its plan to build a deep-underground nuclear waste disposal facility near Lake Huron after a First Nation group voted against the project. The company will now begin a new siting process that could last more than a decade and theoretically end with significant changes to the […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Idaho, DOE Seal Deal on Managing Spent Fuel From National Lab Reactor
The Department of Energy and the state of Idaho on Tuesday sealed a deal that would allow some spent nuclear fuel to remain at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) past the deadline set under a 1995 agreement. The 25-year-old Settlement Agreement between the state, the Energy Department, and the Navy requires that all federally managed […]
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Contracts & Procurement
AECOM Completes Sale of Government Contracting Division
Engineering and construction giant AECOM has completed the $2.4 billion sale of its Management Service business to an affiliate of two New York investment firms. Sale of the subsidiary to American Securities LLC and Lindsay Goldberg LLC closed on Jan. 31, according to an AECOM press release Monday. The new company, called Amentum, is now […]
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Decommissioning
Comprehensive Decommissioning International Secures Pilgrim Contract
Comprehensive Decommissioning International (CDI) has secured the contract for decommissioning the retired Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Massachusetts, one of the company’s owners said Monday. The deal is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Canadian engineering firm SNC-Lavalin stated in a press release. It was signed on Jan. 31, CDI spokesman Pat O’Brien said by […]
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Decommissioning
Advocacy Group Files New Petition Against SONGS Decommissioning
By John Stang Arguing that a worst-case scenario could result in geysers of radioactive water erupting on the California coast, an advocacy organization filed a new petition Tuesday to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to stop the decommissioning of the retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (SONGS). SONGS majority owner Southern California Edison countered that the […]
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Decommissioning
FirstEnergy Solutions Creditors to Get $225 Million
By John Stang FirstEnergy Corp. plans to pay $225 million in cash this year to the creditors of soon-to-be-former subsidiary FirstEnergy Solutions. FirstEnergy Chief Financial Officer Steve Strah mentioned that cash payment in a Friday morning teleconference with analysts to discuss the Akron, Ohio-based corporation’s 2019 annual and fourth quarter financial picture. He did not […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board Still Waiting for New Members
There has been no apparent movement by the Trump administration over the last year to fill vacant and expired terms on the federal Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB). The only change to the board in that time was the departure last May of another member, Linda Nozick, a civil and environmental engineering professor at […]
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International
Australia Picks Site for Radioactive Waste Disposal
The Australian government on Saturday announced the selection of property in the town of Kimba in South Australia as the site for its National Radioactive Waste Management Facility. “I am satisfied a facility at Napandee will safely and securely manage radioactive waste and that the local community has shown broad community support for the project […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Wrap Up: NRC to Issue Final Report on Spent-Fuel Inspections in March
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission expects in March to issue a final report on revising its inspection regime for independent spent fuel storage installations (ISFSIs) at U.S. nuclear power plants. “The final report and recommendations, incorporating internal and external feedback, is undergoing internal review,” agency spokesman David McIntyre said by email on Jan. 29. “Once this […]