Vol. 16, No. 26 
Michigan legislature approves $150M for Palisades restart
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Senate leaves town without voting on Baran for NRC; commissioner’s term expires Friday
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission could be down to four commissioners come Friday, with the Senate out of town and Commissioner Jeffrey Baran’s term was scheduled to expire. Baran’s nomination remained on the Senate’s executive calendar this week, but lawmakers returned home Thursday for their annual July 4 recess and were not scheduled to conduct any business […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
NRC board should decide fate of environmentalist blockade of Diablo Canyon fuel facility this summer
A Nuclear Regulatory Commission panel should decide this summer whether to force Pacific Gas and Electric to formally defend its request to relicense the Diablo Canyon Power Plant’s spent fuel storage facility. The environmental group San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace has mounted a multipronged legal attack on Pacific Gas & Electric’s (PG&E) effort to […]
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Decommissioning
Comments due in August for NRC guidance on equipment replacements with trust fund dollars
Anyone who wants to argue that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission should unconditionally allow power plants to use their decommissioning funds to replace major equipment has until August to refute the agency’s new draft guidance that says otherwise. “The disposal of the MRC [major radioactive components] when performed during the operational phase of the reactor facility […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Ohio pol gets 20 years for nuclear bribery scheme
By John Stang A leading Ohio politician on Thursday was sentenced to 20 years in Prison following a March conviction on a $60 million bribery scheme involving two financially struggling nuclear power plants. Larry Householder, 64, the former speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, got the maximum sentence from the U.S. District Court in […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
New CFO at EnergySolutions
Steven Birchfield was to replace Greg Wood as the chief financial officer of EnergySolutions in June, the Salt Lake City-based radioactive waste disposal company announced Monday. Wood was to retire in June, EnergySolutions wrote in a press release announcing the personnel change in the C-suite. Birchfield was most recently executive vice president and chief financial […]
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International
Longtime fed Hendrickson, now working as Canadian nuke lab exec
Randall Hendrickson, a former senior executive with the U.S. federal government, is now a vice president for Atkins Nuclear Secured in Canada, an Atkins spokesperson confirmed by email. Hendrickson joined Atkins in late April and is at the Chalk River location of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories as a vice president for business management, the Atkins spokesperson […]
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Budget & Policy
Hawley seeks oversight hearing on Granholm financial holdings
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, wants an oversight hearing on “misleading” statements Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm made to the panel in April about her stock ownership. “During the hearing, Secretary Granholm claimed she did not own any personal financial stocks, when in fact, she held […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Round-up: Anti-Yucca NDDA; anti-Palisades letter; new company lawyer at Centrus; nuclear maternity shoot at INL; more
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), up for reelection in 2024, touted her opposition to Yucca Mountain in a press release listing her contributions to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. The bill, Rosen, wrote in her presser, has “Zero dollars authorized for defense nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain.” Yucca, which Nevada politicians have effectively stonewalled, […]