Vol. 14, No. 15 
Holtec, NY State Propose Joint Settlement in Indian Point Suit
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Commercial Decommissioning
Three Mile Island Watchdog Won’t Drop Water-Violation Argument With NRC
The president of a nuclear watchdog group said this week that his organization’s recent motion to hold the sale of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station was “appropriate” after Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff recommended that the agency scrap the request. Eric Epstein, president of Three Mile Island Alert, said Wednesday that the group’s March 15 […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
HII Has ‘Aspirations’ in Commercial Nuclear Decommissioning, Exec Says
Huntington Ingalls Industries, best known for building nuclear-powered warships for the Navy, is probing the commercial decommissioning market, a senior executive told RadWaste Monitor this week. “We actually have looked at the decommissioning models and there are some models that are more attractive to us than others and we have explored opportunities in that market […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Consistent Dry Storage Safety Standards Still Needed, Industry Tells NRC
There are “significant opportunities” for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to apply industry recommendations to its current approach to the safe dry storage of spent nuclear fuel, a trade group representative said at an agency workshop this week. “It’s our intent to use and consider risk principles in assessing safety margins for dry storage, for the […]