Vol. 14, No. 34

Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

Texas Bill Banning Rad Waste Storage On its Way to Governor’s Desk

Second time’s the charm for a proposed bill aimed at banning the storage of high-level nuclear waste including spent fuel in Texas, which cleared both houses of the state legislature this week in a parliamentary blitz. The measure, co-sponsored by state Rep. Brooks Landgraf (R) and state Sen. Brian Birdwell (R), passed in its second […]
  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    NRC Responds to Texas Host County’s Objection Over Interim Storage

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week sought to allay the concerns of the Texas county slated to host a commercial interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, according to a letter to the county’s chief executive. “NRC staff is conducting a detailed review of the license application from Interim Storage Partners, LLC, to determine whether […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Enviros Rail on Nuke Plant Subsidies in Letter to Congress

    Washington is making a bad investment with proposed legislation providing tax credits to financially-struggling nuclear power plants, a coalition of anti-nuclear groups told members of Congress in a letter last week. Proposed bailouts for nuclear plants, which includes around $6 billion in the Joe Biden administration’s trillion-dollar infrastructure bill, “misdirects resources while perpetuating climate injustice,” […]

  • Decommissioning

    NRC Delivers Final Blow to Enviros’ Petition to Halt TMI Sale; Case Headed to Federal Court

    An anti-nuclear watchdog’s agency-level effort to halt the sale of a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant is dead to rights after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted it down this week. The three NRC commissioners voted unanimously during a Tuesday meeting to nix Three Mile Island Alert’s petition to reconsider the sale of Three Mile Island Nuclear […]

  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    ‘Unusual Event’ Over at Waterford Nuclear Plant after Hurricane Ida Batters Louisiana, Reactor Still Dark

    A Louisiana nuclear power plant that shut down as Hurricane Ida passed through has site power back online, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week. Waterford Nuclear Generating Station, located about 25 miles from New Orleans, got its offsite electrical power back Tuesday evening, NRC said in a statement published Wednesday morning on Facebook.  The […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Rad Waste Dejà Vù for Former Rep. John Shimkus

    In mid-August, with his former colleagues enjoying a week of recess back home, a self-described “nuclear-waste guy” with nearly a quarter of a century on Capitol Hill worked on lesson plans for his new teaching gig, watching nuclear-waste history repeat itself. Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) ended a 24-year career representing Illinois’s 15th congressional district in […]

  • Decommissioning

    EVENT NOTICE

    The Exchange Monitor’s Decommissioning Strategy Forum has been rescheduled to Nov. 1-2 at the J.W. Marriott Las Vegas Resort and Spa in Summerlin, Nev. For more information, please contact Beth Wagner, associate brand director for the Decommissioning Strategy Forum.

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