Vol. 16, No. 37 
Feds could ask for do-over of hearing that sank commercial interim storage
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Budget & Policy
DOE, contractors, would keep working after shutdown, but travel would be restricted
Still deadlocked over whether to spend the maximum allowed by a law passed this spring, Congress on Friday still had not passed a bill to keep federal agencies open in the new government fiscal year that begins Sunday. On Friday, even before it failed by a 198-232 vote to pass in the chamber in which […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC staff move to intercept environmentalist plea that commissioners force Diablo Canyon Unit 1 offline
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission should not vote on environmentalists’ requests to shut down one of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant’s two reactors until agency staff weigh in on the request, staff said Monday. It is the latest in a series of attempts by the groups to have Diablo Canyon shut down prior to 2030, the […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Diablo Canyon appeals court arguments possible early next year
Antinuclear activists suing the U.S. government to stop a life extension for the Diablo Canyon Power Plant could present oral arguments to a federal court in Pasadena, Calif., in early 2024, a recent court filing shows. In an order last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said it might order the parties to court […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Holtec prepares for demolition of tanks, reactor vessel at Pilgrim; 80% of plant demolished
Holtec Decommissioning International plans this fall to demolish water tanks at the shuttered Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant that held radioactively contaminated water and, by mid-winter, package much of the radioactive waste from the plant’s reactor vessel. Members of the Massachusetts Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel heard that and more Monday from Dave Noyes, Holtec’s compliance […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Round up: Emptying Vermont Yankee; Fukushima tritium measurements; More big salary cuts proposed for Biden cabinet; Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) dead at 90
A citizens group heard this week that the Department of Energy plans to release by year’s end Orano’s plan for removing spent nuclear fuel from the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Vernon, Vt. The company has been decommissioning Vermont Yankee in earnest since 2019, four years after its shutdown. In slides briefed Monday to […]