Vol. 15, No. 13 
NE top line stagnant in FY23 budget request, fuel cycle R&D gets a boost; NRC funding up
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
DOE nuclear energy office seeking internal candidates for spent fuel position
The Department of Energy is looking for someone within the agency to run the Office of Nuclear Energy’s spent nuclear fuel programs, according to an internal job listing obtained last week by RadWaste Monitor. According to the posting, DOE is hiring a 120-day detail for the Senior Executive Service (SES) position of assistant secretary for […]
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Decommissioning
NRC approves Kewaunee plant sale to EnergySolutions as state-level battle rages on
As a decommissioning company looking to purchase a Wisconsin nuclear power plant argues its case before a state regulator, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has pinned its seal of approval on the proposed transaction, the agency said this week. NRC has approved the sale of Kewaunee Power Station and its spent fuel storage facility to EnergySolutions […]
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Decommissioning
Palisades sale hearing request still pending at NRC
The sale of a Michigan nuclear power plant could be final before Independence Day so an anti-nuclear group and the state attorney general have only about three months to get a public hearing on the transaction with the NRC — which has yet to say yay or nay, an agency spokesperson said this week. Hearing […]
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Decommissioning
All options still on the table for Pilgrim wastewater disposal Holtec repeats
When talking about Holtec International’s plans to dispose of wastewater from a Massachusetts nuclear power plant under decommissioning, make sure to use the right terminology, a company official told members of a community engagement panel this week. “The term dumping does not apply here,” Holtec senior compliance officer Dave Noyes said during a Monday meeting […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC environmental justice report on the commissioners’ desk
A report on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s environmental justice efforts based on a months-long review process is ready for agency leadership to look over, a spokesperson said this week. The environmental justice review team, led by Gregory Suber, deputy chief of NRC’s operating reactor licensing division, sent its findings to the commission Tuesday, an agency […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Wrap-Up: Russians out of Chernobyl; ARPA-E project to provide $48M for spent fuel research
Happy Friday, nuke-watchers. Here are some other stories RadWaste Monitor was tracking across the civilian nuclear power space this week. Russian garrison at Chernobyl hands plant back to Ukraine, IAEA says Russian forces occupying the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant packed up and left late this week, leaving the site in the hands of Ukrainian operators, […]