Vol. 15, No. 9 
Cruz, Heinrich unveil bill blocking private interim storage
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Budget & Policy
Biden admin sends NE-1 nom Huff to Senate
The White House this week officially nominated Kathryn Huff to lead the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, sending her nomination to the Senate about a month after announcing its intention to do so. Next up for Huff, whose nomination to become the deputy assistant secretary of nuclear energy (NE-1) in DOE’s Office of […]
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Decommissioning
DOE to Begin Issuing Nuke Plant Credits This Summer, Agency Says
The Department of Energy could begin doling out the first installments of credits for financially-troubled nuclear power plants this summer, the agency’s nuclear fuel cycle chief said this week. Mid-June “is the best estimate we can offer” on when DOE’s initial payments could go out, said Andrew Griffith, the Office of Nuclear Energy’s deputy assistant […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Interim storage RFI input lower than previous attempts, DOE says
Fewer people than five years ago want to share ideas about how to site a federally owned interim storage site for nuclear waste, a Department of Energy official told the federal government’s nuclear agency this week. As of Tuesday, DOE had gotten just around 125 comments on its interim storage request for information (RFI) since […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Public Comment for Proposed Decom Rule This Week; Another LLRW Tracking Exemption
A proposed change to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s nuclear decommissioning rulemaking, which includes updates to tracking requirements for low-level nuclear waste shipments, is scheduled to go live for public comment this week, an agency spokesperson said this week. A public comment request on the proposed decommissioning rule was published Thursday in the Federal Register. After […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Energy Northwest said good planning prevented worse dosing at Columbia; NRC says luck
By: John Stang Did luck keep a Columbia Generating Station radiation-exposure incident in May from being worse than it was? Or did good planning play a key role? Those questions face Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials as they decide how much Energy Northwest should be blamed for a May 28, 2021 pipe-welding incident that exposed 22 […]
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Decommissioning
Experts, Enviros Petition Whitmer to Keep Palisades Plant Open
Hundreds of nuclear engineers and climate advocates in a letter earlier this month implored Michigan’s governor to step in and stop a nuclear power plant’s planned closure in the spring. “We seek your assistance in preventing the permanent and premature closure of the Palisades nuclear plant in May 2022, nine years before its operating license […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Dominion’s income back in the black in 2021
Dominion Energy, Richmond, Va., saw its profits rebound last year from a loss in 2020, according to recent financial filings. The utility company reported a net income of around $3.2 billion, or $3.98 a share, for the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, according to a 10-K form filed Feb. 24. That figure was up significantly, […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Revenue Down in 2021 for Entergy Nuclear Business After Indian Point Closure
Nuclear segment revenue at Entergy, New Orleans, was down over $200 million in 2021, mainly due to a New York nuclear reactor shutting down last spring, the company said in recently-published financial documents. For the year ended Dec. 31, Entergy Wholesale Commodities, the company’s business segment responsible for operating its nuclear fleet, reported around $698 […]
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Decommissioning
NRC Chair Hanson Tours SONGS Dry Storage Pad
Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman Christopher Hanson took a break from the East Coast in early February to tour San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, the California plant’s operator said in a press release last week. Hanson visited the Pendleton, Calif., San Onofre (SONGS) “earlier this month” and toured the site’s turbine building area, spent fuel storage […]
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International
Wrap Up: IAEA says no rad threat at Ukraine nuke plant, for now; Cuellar’s primary woes;
Happy Friday, nuke-watchers. Here are some other stories that RadWaste Monitor was tracking this week. ‘No release of radioactive material’ following Russian shelling at Ukraine nuke plant, IAEA says A battle Friday morning between Russian and Ukrainian forces at one of Europe’s largest nuclear power plants does not seem to have threatened any of the site’s […]