Vol. 9, No. 16 
House FY17 Energy Bill Includes $170M for Yucca
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Commercial Decommissioning
Pilgrim to Shut Down in May 2019
The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station will cease operations on May 31, 2019, owner Entergy announced Thursday, meaning the company will refuel the Massachusetts plant next year. The company had previously said shutdown would occur sometime from 2017 to 2019. Entergy… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
House and Senate Funding Proposals Similar For NRC in FY17
House and Senate fiscal 2017 energy and water appropriations bills released this week include similar funding requests for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The House version calls for $936.1 million in NRC funding. The agency recovers about 90 percent of its… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Congressional Energy Bills Fund FUSRAP at $103M
House and Senate energy and water appropriations bills for fiscal 2017, released this week, both propose to fund the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Formerly Utilized Site Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) at $103 million, which is in line with the Obama administration’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Kurion Acquisition Finalized, Veolia Says
Environmental solutions provider Veolia on Thursday said it had completed the $350 million acquisition of nuclear waste cleanup technology developer Kurion. The buyout is part of Veolia’s plan to carve out a chunk of a massive global nuclear remediation market,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Decommissioning
Atkins Completes $318M Buyout of EnergySolutions’ PP&T Biz
British design and engineering consultant Atkins has acquired EnergySolutions’ projects, products, and technology (PP&T) segment for $318 million, the company announced Monday after securing regulatory authorization in North America. In a press a release,… 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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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC Approves $40 million in Workload Reductions
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday approved 150 staff recommendations for reducing the agency’s expenses and staffing workloads, which will reportedly result in about $40 million in savings over the next year. The reductions ranged in savings from… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Entergy Continues Water Shipments From Vermont Yankee
Power company Entergy has shipped to Tennessee about 64,000 gallons of contaminated water that had been stored in portable swimming pools and industrial bladders at the company’s shuttered Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, spokesman Marty Cohn said Monday. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Wrap Up: NRC, Int’l Isotopes to Meet Over Violations
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials are set to meet with representatives from International Isotopes Inc. on May 3 to discuss four apparent operational violations stemming from an incident in which a worker was accidentally exposed to radiation at the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]