Vol. 15, No. 37 
DOE nuclear waste, energy programs tread water in stopgap budget to start fiscal year 2023
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NRC has no timeline for considering Nevada’s play to permanently kill Yucca licensing
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission does not have a schedule for when it will address a recent request from the state of Nevada aimed at reopening, and eventually ending, the agency’s licensing proceedings for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Decommissioning
Earliest wastewater discharge from Pilgrim plant in Q1 2023, Holtec says
The company in charge of decommissioning a former Massachusetts nuclear power plant said this week that, if it decides to follow through on a controversial plan to release irradiated wastewater from the facility, it will do so early next year. The earliest time… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Decommissioning
Last of Vermont Yankee’s low-level waste to be packaged in October, NorthStar says
The company in charge of decommissioning a former Vermont nuclear power plant aims to load and store the last of the facility’s low-level waste next month, according to a statement from its CEO this week. NorthStar, which is in the process of dismantling Vermont… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
‘Unlikely allies’ in nuclear waste management: 20 minutes with Sam Brinton, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition, Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy
A lot of people say that they eat, sleep and breathe their passions, but there are few who would identify more with that adage than Sam Brinton, newly-minted Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition at the Department of Energy. “My husband is a painter, and half of the paintings in our home […]
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International
Wrap-up: Granholm at IAEA; First Belgian reactor to shutter; Donald Ross (1923-2022)
Happy Friday, nuke-watchers. Before we head off into the weekend, here are a couple of other stories that RadWaste Monitor was tracking from across the civilian nuclear power space this week. Granholm talks ‘re-establishing U.S. leadership in nuclear energy’… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]