Vol. 14, No. 22 
Interim Storage Makes the Cut in DOE Budget Overview
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Budget & Policy
2022 NRC Budget Request Seeks Cash Boost for New Reactors
Despite this year’s spate of plant closures the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is asking for increased funding for regulation of new reactors during the 2022 fiscal year, according to recently published budget documents. Of the roughly $890 appropriation NRC would get if the Joe Biden administration’s budget plan were to become law, about $89 million would […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
USACE Nuke Cleanup Could Return to DOE Under Biden Budget
The Joe Biden administration proposed putting the Department of Energy back in charge of Manhattan Project site cleanup efforts as part of its fiscal year 2022 budget request, according to a recent press release. The Army Corps of Engineers, which currently oversees the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP), would continue cleaning up the […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Court Dismisses Indian Point Suit after Settlement Reached
A federal judge Thursday formally dismissed a suit over the sale of Indian Point Energy Center following the approval of a joint settlement last week, according to new court filings. The approval of last week’s motion to dismiss filed by New York State, alongside environmental watchdog Riverkeeper and the towns of Cortlandt and Buchanan, N.Y., […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
‘The State That is First:’ 30 Minutes with James Kenney, Cabinet Secretary, New Mexico Environment Department
When it comes to radioactive waste in New Mexico, the head of the state’s environment department thinks the buck should stop — or really, start — with him. “This is the state to which things have been sent to. We are adamant that we will be the state that is first consulted with,” James Kenney, […]