Vol. 14, No. 13 
New Mexico Suing NRC Over Proposed Interim Storage Site
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Commercial Decommissioning
No Hearings for Indian Point Sale, NRC Chair Tells Schumer
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission won’t reverse its decision to deny requests for a public hearing on the sale of Indian Point Energy, the agency’s chairman told the leader of the U.S. Senate recently. NRC Chair Christopher Hanson “does not have the authority to unilaterally modify” the full commission’s ruling, he wrote in a March 25 […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
NRC Greenlights New Waste Shipments to US Ecology Idaho From S.C.
A nuclear fuel fabrication facility in South Carolina can ship its low-level waste to a storage facility in Idaho, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said last week. The agency granted Westinghouse Electric Company a regulatory exemption to send low-activity waste to US Ecology’s disposal site in the Gem State from a Hopkins, S.C. fuel fabrication facility, […]
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Budget & Policy
FirstEnergy Flip Flops, Gives Up Gains From Scandalous Bailout Law
By John Stang Reversing an earlier stance, FirstEnergy Corp. announced this week it would refund $26 million to ratepayers that it collected this year through a controversial 2019 law. Last week, FirstEnergy Corp. told the Ohio state government that the company should not have to refund $30 million collected from Ohio ratepayers under scandal-tainted legislation […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
Nuclear Energy Office Seeking Sources for Advanced Reactor Rollout
The Department of Energy’s nuclear energy office is looking for small businesses to advise them on issues surrounding the advanced nuclear fuel cycle. The Office of Nuclear Energy needs advisory services from small businesses to help the agency address some of the challenges of “scaling up new nuclear reactor and fuel cycle technologies from laboratory-scale […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Perma-Fix Revenue Rise by Almost 50% in 2020, but COVID Crimps Profits
Earnings rose at Perma-Fix, Atlanta, in 2020, with growth in the hazardous waste company’s Services Segment offsetting a pandemic-driven reduction in waste receipts at the federally focused Treatment Segment. For the full year, company wide net income was around $2.8 million, or $0.23 a share, up from some $2.2 million, or $0.19 a share, in […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Lack of Urgency Remains Around Permanent Storage, Former DOE Nuke Chiefs Say
Locating a permanent repository for nuclear waste is “not a crisis,” and the government should be deliberate about community engagement throughout the process, a couple former Department of Energy nuclear leaders said during a discussion last week. Still, the federal government needs to get serious about developing a strategy for the more than 80,000 tons […]