Vol. 9, No. 43 
Private Nuclear Waste Storage Companies Plug Away, Regardless of Election Outcome
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Southern Co. Withdraws Potential Alabama Borehole Site
As a result of public opposition, Southern Co. has withdrawn a property in Alabama from a list of potential sites for the Energy Department’s deep borehole nuclear waste storage field test. The projected $35 million, five-year field test would produce data on the feasibility of storing DOE-managed nuclear waste in 16,000-foot boreholes drilled into crystalline rock […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
U.S. Needs Yucca and Interim Storage: Alexander
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) last week voiced support for consolidated interim storage of nuclear waste, while maintaining that Yucca Mountain needs to be part of the long-term solution. Alexander, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Energy and Water Development Subcommittee, along with panel Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), introduced in the fiscal 2017 Senate energy and water budget […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Edison Earnings Remain Flat for 3Q
Edison International recorded net income of $419 million, or $1.29 per share, for the third quarter of 2016, compared to $421 million, also $1.29 per share, in the same period for 2015, the California utility announced Tuesday in its latest earning report. Based in Rosemead, Calif., Edison International is the parent company of Southern California […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Perma-Fix Northwest Fined $36,400
The Washington state Department of Ecology has fined Perma-Fix Northwest $36,400 for the improper handling of some mixed dangerous and radioactive waste apparently left by the last owner of the company’s plant in Richland. Perma-Fix purchased the facility from Pacific EcoSolutions in 2007. The plant treats, size reduces, and packages low-level radioactive and mixed waste […]
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International
Canada Begins Relocating Low-Level Waste at Port Granby
A Canadian federal cleanup program on Tuesday began moving 450,000 cubic meters of low-level radioactive waste away from the shoreline of Lake Ontario. Roughly 35 truckloads of waste were moved on the first day from an existing storage facility to the new Port Granby Project Long-Term Waste Management Facility, an engineered above-ground mound roughly 700 meters […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC Identifies Apparent Violation at BWXT Facility
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified an apparent regulatory violation at the BWXT Nuclear Operations Group (NOG) Inc. facility in Lynchburg, Va. The incident occurred June 9 at BWXT’s Mount Athos Road manufacturing facility near Lynchburg, where the company found that an in-plant water line connection to a uranium recycling process had not been properly reviewed […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Wrap-Up: NRC Records September Waste Fund Gain in Yucca Report
U.S. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recorded a net gain of $5,230 to the Nuclear Waste Fund tied to expenses for licensing activities on the suspended Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, according to an Oct. 26 report to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and other lawmakers. NRC spokesman Dave McIntyre […]