Vol. 15, No. 10 
NM district court judge dismisses state’s lawsuit over interim storage
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
DOE still developing interim storage funding opportunity, acting spent fuel chief says
PHOENIX — The Department of Energy planned to give some cash to communities interested in hosting a federal interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel but the agency’s spent fuel czar declined to provide details during a panel discussion here this week. DOE’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Budget & Policy
Budget compromise for 2022 lowers NE funding
A bipartisan omnibus spending package awaiting President Joe Biden’s signature would increase the Department of Energy’s nuclear energy budget from 2021 levels but still come in shy of the agency’s request for the current fiscal year. If the compromise budget… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Group in Holtec site host county rooting for demise of anti-interim storage bill in Congress
PHOENIX — An executive with an energy coalition representing the host community of a proposed interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in New Mexico asked attendees at an industry conference this week to help ensure that a bill introduced in Congress last… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC must stay independent of advanced nukes hype, chair Hanson says at regs conference
Autonomy is one of the nuclear regulator’s most important assets, especially where developing nuclear technology is concerned, the chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week at a virtual annual conference. “In the past few years, as climate… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC staff aiming to get final decom rule to commissioners by fall ‘23
Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff working on a proposed decommissioning rules change are planning to have the final version of the updated regulations on the commissioners’ desks by next year, the project’s manager said at an annual agency conference this… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Holtec expects NRC approval on CISF by second quarter this year; could be built by 2024
PHOENIX — Holtec International’s proposed interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel could be greenlit by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the coming months, the company’s government services lead said here this week. NRC could make a licensing decision… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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International
IAEA looking into reports power back at Chernobyl after blackout
The U.N.’s nuclear panel is investigating reports that power has been restored at Ukraine’s former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, days after a blackout that raised concerns about the safety of the site’s spent fuel stores. The International Atomic Energy… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Almost all U.S. nuclear plants at top regs performance, NRC says
Nearly all of the commercial nuclear power reactors in the U.S. meet the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s highest regulatory standards, the agency said in a press release this week. NRC has issued its 2021 performance reports to all 93 of the country’s operating… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Bolt-On the Back End: 30 minutes with Sam Shakir, President, Westinghouse Environmental Services
If you ask Sam Shakir, president of Westinghouse’s environmental services division, nuclear waste shouldn’t be taboo for the nuclear industry. “I think the nuclear industry has stayed away from the controversy of spent fuel because everyone’s interested… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
Wrap Up: DOE’s advanced reactor grants; CT weighing partial nuke ban repeal; Humboldt ISFSI hearing requests open
Happy Friday, nuke-watchers. Your RadWaste Monitor reporter was on the red-eye back from Phoenix after the first in-person Waste Management Symposia in two years. Here are some other stories from across the civilian nuclear space that we were tracking this week. DOE… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as […]