Vol. 9, No. 42 
Interim Storage in Five Years With Congressional Approval: Moniz
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Groups Want NRC to Cancel WCS License Application Review
Four nongovernmental groups are calling on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to cancel its review of Waste Control Specialists’ application to build and operate a consolidated interim storage facility for nuclear waste in West Texas. Beyond Nuclear, the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Public Citizen, and the SEED Coalition co-authored a letter to the NRC on Wednesday, […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Alabama Emerges as Second Potential Borehole Site
A location in Dale County, Ala., has joined the list of potential sites for the Energy Department’s deep borehole nuclear waste storage field test, but has already drawn opposition from community members. Ohio-based Battelle Memorial Institute is proposing the Southern Co.-owned site in Alabama. The company has already obtained a letter of support from the Dale County […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Fort Calhoun Power Plant Closes After 43 Years
The Fort Calhoun Station permanently shut down Monday, ending a 43-year operational run for the Nebraska nuclear power plant, which now faces defueling and a $1.2 billion decommissioning. Located about 20 miles north of Omaha, Fort Calhoun is America’s smallest nuclear power plant. The Omaha Public Power District’s (OPPD) Board of Directors unanimously approved the […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Exelon Reports 22 Percent Income Drop For 3Q
Exelon Corp. on Wednesday reported $490 million in generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) net income for the third quarter of 2016, a 22 percent decrease from the $629 million reported in 2015. GAAP diluted earnings per share dropped from $0.69 to $0.53. On a non-GAAP basis, net income rose from $757 million to $841 million, […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Entergy Reports $388.2M Profit for 3Q
Power company Entergy on Tuesday reported a third-quarter profit of $388.2 million, a massive improvement from the $723 million loss reported in the same period of 2015. The New Orleans-based company owns and operates power plants that produce about 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, including nearly 10,000 megawatts of nuclear power. Entergy’s Wholesale Commodities […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Federal Court Awards Dairyland $73.5M for DOE Waste Failures
A federal court last week awarded the Dairyland Power Cooperative a $73.5 million settlement for the government’s breach of contract concerning nuclear waste retrieval at the La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor power plant in Genoa, Wis. About 74,000 metric tons of spent fuel is now stored at American nuclear sites, resulting from the Energy Department’s […]
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International
Divers Put to Work in U.K. Nuclear Cleanup Project
U.K. nuclear company Magnox Ltd. is using divers for underwater dismantlement of former spent nuclear fuel storage containers in retired cooling ponds at the shuttered Dungeness A nuclear power plant in Kent, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority said Tuesday. While it has been four years since the former nuclear power plant has contained any used fuel, the […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
NRC Denies State Appeal on Vermont Yankee Trust Fund Hearing
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday denied the state of Vermont’s request for a hearing concerning Entergy’s use of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant’s decommissioning trust fund, ruling that the utility can use money from the account for spent fuel management expenses. Vermont filed a hearing request in April with the NRC, challenging Entergy’s license […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Wrap-Up: Zion Decommissioning 88 Percent Complete
U.S. Decommissioning of the Zion Nuclear Power Station is now 88 percent complete and well ahead of its original 10-year project timeline, EnergySolutions announced Tuesday. The Illinois facility, which was retired in 1998, is now on schedule and within budget for completion of decommissioning in 2018, according to the company. Decommissioning, which was budgeted at […]