Vol. 17, No. 45 
Biden’s nominee to fill out NRC squeaks to Senate floor on party line vote
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
DOE spent fuel official says industry should back independent waste agency
A bill that would create a nuclear waste agency outside the Department of Energy has “good bones” and could be a rallying point for the nuclear industry, a federal official said Wednesday. The bill, filed Sept. 24 by Reps. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) and August Pfleuger… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be […]
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Budget & Policy
Trump plans to nominate fossil exec, nuclear-startup board member to head DOE
Multiple national news organizations reported last week that President-elect Donald Trump intends to nominate Chris Wright, CEO and founder of Liberty Energy, a Denver-based oilfield services company, to be the next secretary of energy. According to his Liberty… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Feds will pay $145M to ex-Yankee operators in latest lawsuit over spent fuel
The federal government will pay $145 million for failing to remove spent nuclear fuel from three shuttered New England power plants over five years, court papers filed this week show. The payment, jointly agreed to last week by the plant operators and federal officials,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
NY law prohibiting radwaste in Hudson River is about property, not safety, state tells court
With less than a month left to brief the court, attorneys for New York said the state’s ban on discharging irradiated water from shuttered nuclear plants does not violate federal law. For that reason, attorneys for the state said in a Nov. 8 court filing, the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
BW chief says regs ‘fetish’ a pain for nuclear
“Regulatory impedance” is among the challenges facing the new nuclear renaissance, the chief executive officer of BWX Technologies, Lynchburg, Va., said Monday at a professional conference. “For whatever reason, western nations, developed economies, develop… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. Email or […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
Texas should consider ‘recycling,’ state-chartered group says in advanced reactor report
In the only mention of high-level waste in a 72-page report a year in the marking, a state-chartered group on Monday said Texas should consider building a “nuclear recycling facility.” “Texas should contemplate and discuss a state position on the development… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NGA document lays out radwaste definitions, disposal paths
t’s not exactly radioactive waste definitions for dummies, but a National Governors Association task force has produced a document to help state and federal agencies stay on the same page when discussing cleanup of government nuclear weapons testing and production. “The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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News & Analysis
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