Vol. 9, No. 23

International

U.K. Nuclear Official Promises More Transparent Waste Disposal Site Selection

MANCHESTER, England — Transparency will be the focus as the U.K. government tries to avoid failing for a third time to build a geologic disposal facility (GDF) for high-level radioactive waste, an official with the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said Tuesday. “There’s quite a lot of trust that needs to be built in the communities, […]
  • Commercial Decommissioning

    Exelon to Close Clinton, Quad Cities Nuclear Plants

    Utility Exelon said Thursday it will close its Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear power plants respectively in 2017 and 2018, citing uncertainty surrounding a controversial energy plan it pushed for in the Illinois General Assembly this cycle. The state legislature, which wrapped up its spring legislative session on Tuesday, failed to send a budget to Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner […]

  • International

    U.K. Won’t Define Consent on Nuclear Waste Storage

    MANCHESTER, England – Like the United States, the United Kingdom is holding off on defining the term “community consent” in its most prominent nuclear waste storage project, the geological disposal facility (GDF). “Standing here right now, I don’t have in front of me a formula which addresses those issues,” Ivan Stone, stakeholder engagement and communications […]

  • International

    Allowing Interim to Become Permanent Storage Not an Option in Germany

    MANCHESTER, England — While Germany is looking at extending interim storage of national nuclear waste by as much as 80 years, allowing interim to become permanent storage is not an option. That’s according to German engineer Holger Volzke, who spoke here Wednesday at the conclusion of the 2016 Nuclear Decommissioning Conference Europe. Volzke is a division […]

  • International

    Decommissioning Cost Hike at Sellafield Intolerable: Exec

    MANCHESTER, England — Stakeholders leading the cleanup at the Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing and decommissioning site in Cumbria, England, cannot tolerate decommissioning cost spikes, like the 25 percent increase experienced at the site in 2005, an executive for Sellafield partner EDF Energy said Wednesday. “(The 2005 hike) is not something that we can tolerate with the funding decommissioning […]

  • International

    Wrap Up: U.K. Underestimates Nuclear Threats, Report Says

    INTERNATIONAL U.K. authorities underestimate the risks of attack on nuclear facilities and transports, a local government adviser concluded in a report Sunday. The Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) in what it called a “carefully researched and considered analysis of the U.K. and international nuclear security,” urged government, nuclear regulators, and industry to address issues associated with information […]

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