Vol. 9, No. 35

Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

Boyle Confident DOE Will Find Borehole Test Site

LAS VEGAS — A senior Energy Department official said Wednesday there’s no doubt the agency will find an agreeable site for its deep-borehole nuclear waste storage field test, despite failing to secure two separate locations over several months this year in North Dakota and South Dakota. Following his appearance at the ExchangeMonitor’s 2016 RadWaste Summit here, DOE […]
  • Decommissioning

    West Lake Could Be Added to FUSRAP in 2017: Official

    LAS VEGAS — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could add the Environmental Protection Agency’s West Lake Landfill Superfund site to its Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program under the next administration, FUSRAP National Program Manager Nicki Fatherly said Thursday. Lawmakers have been calling for FUSRAP to replace EPA at the troubled Missouri landfill, where […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Reid Lambasts NEI for Consent-Based Siting Comments

    Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday lambasted the Nuclear Energy Institute for “impeding” the Energy Department’s consent-based siting program for nuclear waste storage, and for ignoring Nevada’s opposition to the canceled plan for a geologic waste repository at Yucca Mountain. During the recently closed comment period on the consent-based siting initiative, NEI, the nuclear industry’s legislative and […]

  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    Pilgrim Plant Shuts Down Unexpectedly

    Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station was still shut down Thursday following a malfunction two days earlier in which excessive water levels were recorded in the plant’s reactor vessel, the latest failure for the Massachusetts facility. Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Neil Sheehan said by email Tuesday the reactor shut down because of a high water level “resulting from […]

  • Decommissioning

    West Lake Sampling Turns Up No RIM

    Sampling of a stormwater area at Missouri’s West Lake Landfill in June did not turn up any radiologically impacted material (RIM), the Environmental Protection Agency reported Wednesday. The landfill, which is adjacent to the Bridgeton Landfill, where an underground fire has been burning since 2010, contains waste from the former uranium production facility at Mallinckrodt […]

  • Commercial Decommissioning

    Wrap Up: SONGS Panel to Meet Sept. 15

    The San Onofre Community Engagement Panel will meet Sept. 15 to discuss the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station decommissioning. The regular quarterly meeting is set from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the QLN Conference Center, 1938 Avenida Del Oro, Oceanside, according to Thursday’s announcement. The 18-member panel consists of government officials, scientists, and environmental […]

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