Vol. 17, No. 35 
NRC nominee defends career in confirmation hearing, agrees with controversial commission decision
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
DOE, Yankee operators finalizing settlement in standard contract lawsuit
The federal government this week told a court it is settling a 2021 lawsuit over the agency’s failure to take custody of spent nuclear fuel from shuttered New England power plants. It is the most recent, but not the first, lawsuit filed by Connecticut Yankee… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be […]
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Budget & Policy
Vote canned on House Speaker Johnson’s stopgap budget
WASHINGTON — House speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced Wednesday in Washington that he was pulling his stopgap six-month GOP spending bill that would extend federal agencies’ 2024 budgets from its scheduled House floor vote. For the Department of Energy’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
EnergySolutions forms consulting subsidiary
EnergySolutions created a new subsidiary, Management Consultants International, focused on regulatory issues in the nuclear and other industries, the company said this week in a press release. Recent hire Pierre Oneid, who came over from Holtec International around… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Round up: AI for the whole fuel cycle?; Ex INLers new gig; Centrus LEU deal with Korea; more
Artificial Intelligence “could touch every single part of the fuel cycle” one day, Luis Betancourt, an official with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week on a conference call with reporters. Betancourt, NRC’s chief of the accident analysis branch,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]