Vol. 16, No. 8 
Progressive Rep. Ocasio Cortez talks up spent fuel reprocessing during Japan trip
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Decommissioning
Leveraging federal tax credits, Constellation to invest $800M in Braidwood, Byron nuke plants
Two Illinois nuclear power plants — one of which recently avoided a premature shutdown — are getting a multi-million cash injection thanks to a federal nuclear production tax credit, owner Constellation Energy announced this week. The roughly $800 million infusion, which Constellation unveiled in a Tuesday press release, will be used to increase the generation […]
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Decommissioning
Diablo Canyon license extension perfectly legal, PG&E tells NRC
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission can allow California’s last nuclear power reactor to operate with an expired license, the plant’s owner wrote in a recent regulatory filing Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) was rebuffing claims by a coalition of anti-nuclear groups who told the NRC the utility was asking the government to break the law in […]
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Decommissioning
Spent fuel milestone reached at Indian Point decom site, Holtec says
The company in charge of decommissioning a shuttered New York nuclear power plant has finished packing spent fuel from one of the facility’s three reactors into storage canisters, a senior official said last week. Holtec International wrapped up fuel loading operations at Indian Point Energy Center’s Unit 2 reactor Feb. 1, site vice president Rich […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
High labor costs, low revenue contributed to 2022 loss for Constellation Energy
Although its 2022 losses were less severe than a year ago, Constellation Energy, Baltimore, was still in the red thanks to higher operating costs and lower revenues, the utility said in earnings reports published last week. Net losses for Constellation, the company that spun off from Exelon’s generation business in February 2022 and which manages […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Wrap-up: Vegas paper likens Ohio train derailment to Yucca Mountain; 15,000 oppose Pilgrim wastewater discharge; IAEA recaps year of Ukraine nuclear threats
Happy Friday, nuke watchers! Your RadWaste reporter is Phoenix-bound for the annual Waste Management Symposium, and will have the new season of Netflix’s Formula One documentary prepped for the flight. Before that, though, here are a few more stories from around the civilian nuclear-power space we were tracking this week. A train derailment in Ohio […]