Vol. 15, No. 01 
NRC Has More Questions About Holtec’s Interim Storage Proposal
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NRC to Hold Public Meeting on Commercial Spent Fuel Transport Report
Interested stakeholders should get a chance this month to chat with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about a recent staff report analyzing the agency’s ability to regulate large-scale transportation of spent nuclear fuel in the U.S., commission documents show. NRC staff plans to hold public meetings “beginning in January 2022” to discuss the results of its […]
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Budget & Policy
Bobby Rush, House Energy Committee Chair, to Retire
After nearly 30 years in Congress, Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) won’t seek another term in the House, he announced this week. “After nearly three decades in Congress, I have been reassigned,” Rep. Rush, who has served Illinois’s 1st district since 1992, said in a statement Tuesday. “Let me make it clear that I am […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
VT Citizens Decommissioning Panel to Submit Comments to DOE Interim Storage Inquiry
Vermont’s citizen-led nuclear waste advisory committee would support “immediate action” by the federal government to site an interim storage facility for the nation’s spent nuclear fuel, if a draft opinion presented to the committee is finalized. The draft opinion included alongside a Dec. 6 meeting of the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens’ Advisory Panel (NDCAP) proposed […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Holtec to Get $26M Tax Credit from NJ After Court Battle
New Jersey’s economic development commission can’t stop Holtec International from receiving an annual tax incentive payout, a state court ruled recently. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) must grant Holtec a $26 million payment from 2018 that is one part of a roughly $260 million state tax incentive the Camden, N.J.-based nuclear services company […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Hearing Set This Month In New Mexico Lawsuit Over Holtec Interim Storage Site
One of the first big milestones in the frenzy of legal challenges to commercially operated interim storage sites for spent nuclear fuel is coming up in a few weeks in Albuquerque, where a federal judge was due to hear arguments for and against tossing a lawsuit against a proposed Holtec site in the state’s southeastern […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Enviros’ Suit Over TX Interim Storage Pressing Forward in 2022
A lawsuit against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over a proposed Texas interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel sputtered back to life in the early days of 2022, recent court filings show. The suit, filed in February by a coalition of anti-nuclear groups including the Sierra Club, Beyond Nuclear and the Texas-based minerals company Fasken […]
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Decommissioning
Holtec Parades Decom Projects, Advanced Reactors in Year-End Review
Despite the still-raging pandemic, Holtec International’s decommissioning and advanced nuclear business lines had a pretty good year, the nuclear services company said in a roll-up press release this week. The Camden, N.J., based Holtec moved 207 casks of spent nuclear fuel into dry storage at 21 plants around the world in 2021, the company said […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
Citing ‘Significant Information Gaps,’ NRC Cans Oklo Advanced Reactor Project
In a blow to advanced nuclear company Oklo, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week denied the company’s proposed modular reactor project, saying that it failed to properly address several key topics during the application process. Oklo’s application for its Aurora fast reactor “continues to contain significant information gaps in its description of Aurora’s potential accidents […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
What to Watch in 2022: Civilian Nuclear Waste Management
Happy New Year, nuke-watchers, and thanks for reading the year’s first issue of RadWaste Monitor. As we settle back into things after the holidays, here’s a rundown of a few stories we’ll be tracking across the civilian nuclear power space in 2022. A Second Private Interim Storage Site Inches Closer to Reality The Nuclear Regulatory […]