Vol. 17, No. 47 
Canada picks a site for a deep geologic repository
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Interim storage ban twisted law, ignored precedent, let Texas break rules, company tells SCOTUS
A 2023 ban on commercial interim storage was a judicial power grab that flouted the law and ignored the authority of other courts, according to a Monday Supreme Court brief. In its final brief before oral arguments scheduled for March, Interim Storage Partners (ISP) told the Supreme Court that the U.S. Fifth Circuit engaged in […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NRC license for DOE’s unbuilt Idaho Spent Fuel Facility lapses
In a sort of paperwork anti-milestone, the Department of Energy last week asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to terminate a materials license for an unbuilt nuclear fuel handling facility once planned for Butte County, Idaho. “The decision has been made that the facility will not be constructed and therefore the License should be terminated,” reads a […]
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Budget & Policy
Energy and Water approps chair says no ‘topline item agreed to’ for budget; has talked with Chris Wright
WASHINGTON — Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.), chair of the energy and water appropriations subcommittee in the House, told the Exchange Monitor he does not know when a vote on the federal budget would be. “I have not been privy to that,” Fleischmann said here Wednesday in the U.S. Capitol. “But I sure wish we could’ve come up […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
EnergySolutions exploring deployment of advanced reactors on company sites
EnergySolutions, Salt Lake City, will consider putting nuclear reactors under development at Terrestrial Energy, a Charlotte, N.C., on some of the Utah-based company’s sites, the companies said Wednesday. In a joint press release, the companies said they signed a memorandum of understanding “to collaborate on the siting and deployment of Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) plants […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Round up: Orano waste, MOX; NRC staff departures; more
Orano on Nov. 29 signed contracts to return radioactive waste to Japan from the company’s Orano La Hague plant in France. The waste came from reprocessing Japanese uranium fuel, Orano wrote in a press release. The two contracts helped boost Orano’s financial outlook for 2024, the company said. Orano separately this week said it […]