Vol. 16, No. 29 
Senate appropriators keep key nuclear waste funding account whole; tell DOE to move on interim storage
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Budget & Policy
Senate defense policy bill includes major nuclear energy reforms
The Senate’s 2024 National Defense Authorization Act includes the text of a bill that would extend nuclear-industry indemnity for catastrophic accidents and begin reforms at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The bill text was folded into the version of the 2024… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Recommissioning & Restarts
DOE weighing ‘options’ for Palisades financial aid, official says
The Department of Energy is still considering how and whether it will help bail out a shuttered power plant in Michigan, a senior agency official testified this week in Congress. Plant owner Holtec International, Jupiter, Fla., seeks a roughly $1 billion loan for… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
Large, bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers ask NRC to ease license rules for advanced reactors
Sixty four lawmakers called out what they said were six problems with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s draft rule for licensing advanced reactors and, in a July 14 letter, asked for a fix. Safety requirements in the NRC’s proposed rule are so strict that… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Transuranic Waste
Waste Control Specialists to get $16.5M from DOE to move containers of stranded federal waste
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management intends to issue no-bid business to Waste Control Specialists in Andrews County, Texas to relocate containers of long-stranded transuranic waste to a new above-ground storage area at the commercial… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]