Vol. 14, No. 19 
Time Running Out for Proposed Texas High-Level Waste Ban
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Decommissioning
EnergySolutions to Buy, Decommission Kewaunee Nuclear Plant
Nuclear services company EnergySolutions is adding another decommissioning project to its portfolio with the purchase of a long-shuttered nuclear power plant in Wisconsin, according to a press release this week. Dominion Energy, the current owner of Kewaunee Power Station in Carlton, Wisc., signed a definitive agreement to sell the plant to EnergySolutions, according to the […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
Biden Admin Taps Huff for NE-2, Acting Head of DOE Nuclear Energy Office
As part of a flurry of Department of Energy appointments on Monday, the Joe Biden administration made nuclear engineering professor Kathryn Huff the acting head of DOE’s nuclear energy office. Biden appointed Kathryn Huff principal deputy assistant secretary for nuclear energy, second in command at the DOE office that oversees research on nuclear energy and […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
New Mexico Asks Court to Toss Holtec Request to Intervene in Interim Storage Suit
The company seeking a federal license to build an interim storage facility in New Mexico doesn’t have standing to intervene in the state’s suit against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, New Mexico’s attorney general said in a court filing this week. There’s no need for Holtec International to intervene in the case on NRC’s behalf since […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Return to Normal Operations Should Offset Generating Loss From Nuke Plant Closures, EIA Says
Generating loss resulting from the retirement of nuclear power plants will be offset this summer by “a return to more normal operations” at existing reactors, the Department of Energy’s energy statistics agency said in a new report Tuesday. In their summer 2021 electricity industry outlook published Tuesday, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecast that generation […]
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Recommissioning & Restarts
NRC Tosses Petition for Rulemaking on Restarting Reactors
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission denied a request for a new rule that would establish a framework for restarting retired nuclear reactors, according to a notice published last week. There’s not enough industry interest in a regulatory framework to reauthorize operations at retired reactors, NRC said in its denial of a 2018 petition for a new […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
CLARIFICATION
The story “Texas Legislature Pulls ‘Misleading’ High-Level Waste Ban From Floor In Parliamentary Fracas” (RadWaste Monitor, May 07, 2021) should have said that H.B. 2692’s legislative analysis was deemed “substantially and materially misleading.”