Vol. 17, No. 43

Commercial Decommissioning

Judges question environmentalists’ legal recourse in fight about Diablo Canyon Unit 1 vessel

Federal judges on Monday worried that the owner of California’s last nuclear power plant has not checked the condition of a reactor core for more than a decade but questioned whether environmentalists had grounds to force such a check. “Your argument from practicality and so on is really disturbing,” Marsha Berzon, a senior judge in […]
  • Budget & Policy

    Election digest: civilian nuclear power

    Most lawmakers with constituencies near civilian nuclear power plants that are awaiting, undergoing, or returning from decommissioning won reelection easily on Tuesday, according to data published by the Associated Press. Yet even after Donald Trump (R) decisively… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]

  • Recommissioning & Restarts

    NRC shouldn’t give local man hearing over Palisades restart, Holtec says

    A former employee at the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan should not be allowed to block federal regulatory relief needed to restart the plant, Holtec International said this week. In a Monday regulatory filing with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    Stop ‘partisan work’ at NRC, House Energy and Commerce chair writes

    The chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other agencies to cease “partisan work” until a new Congress and President arrive in January. “As a traditional part of the peaceful transfer of power, the NRC… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as […]

  • International

    Round up: Japan interim storage; Fukushima sample; German repository search; more

    Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority this week authorized operation of an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in Mutsu City in the Aomori prefecture, one of the northernmost points of the largest Japanese island, Honshu, the English-language publication… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]

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