Publications: Nuclear Energy & Radwaste Monitor

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 8/28/2015 A group of environmental activist organizations plans to sue the Environmental Protection Agency should the agency refuse to introduce stronger disposal regulations on fracking waste, including Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (TENORM). The group, led by Environmental Integrity Project and the Natural Resources Defense Council, alleged this week […]

NRC Releases Draft Yucca Supplemental EIS Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 8/28/2015 Assembling core management and technical teams and providing new information to the license application would take priority in any effort to relaunch the Yucca Mountain license review, the Bipartisan Policy Center said in a report this week. The BPC outlined a 14-step process […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 8/28/2015 Industry and staff both agreed that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would be better served to allow the state of Texas to regulate the disposal of Greater-Than-Class C radioactive waste than have the NRC oversee it, they said during a Aug. 13 commission briefing on GTCC disposal. Waste Control Specialists […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 8/28/2015 The Army Corps of Engineers’ Kansas City District earlier this month awarded seven contracts totaling $90 million for its Architect-Engineer (A-E) Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (HTRW) Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) in the Corps’ Northwestern Region. The companies chosen are: AECOM Technical Services, ARCADIS U.S., CDM Federal […]

Brian Bradley RW Monitor 8/28/2015 Although Centrus lost $30.5 million during the first six months of 2015, including $15.1 million in the second quarter, the reopening of nuclear power plants in Japan in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster provides hope for future profits. “To be sure, there’s still a long road ahead, but […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 8/28/2014 Congress was out and Washington was empty, but that didn’t stop news from breaking during our annual publication break. As chronicled in the Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, here are a few stories that we’ve been following… Protest Emerges in Luckey Contract Navarro Research and Engineering on Aug. 17 filed […]

RW Monitor 8/28/2015 IN THE NRC The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has reopened the public comment period for the proposed 10.CFR.61 rulemaking, according to a notice in the Federal Register this week. Following the release of the proposed rule in March, the NRC conducted a 120-day public comment period that ended on July 24, but the […]

As is our annual practice, RadWaste Monitor is taking a summer publication break and will not publish for the next two weeks. The next regular issue will be on your desk Aug. 22. Subscribers to the Weapons Complex Morning Briefing service will receive editions twice-a-week on a Tuesday/Thursday basis during the break. In addition, we […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 8/7/2015 The Canadian Nuclear Laboratories late last week awarded an $86.8 million contract to a joint venture of Amec Foster Wheeler and CB&I to construct the Port Granby long-term waste management facility, the companies announced. The contract calls for the excavation of legacy low-level radioactive waste from the Port Hope […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 8/7/2015 Amid reports of disagreement between the nuclear industry and senior senators on the path forward on management of U.S. nuclear waste, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee canceled the Aug. 4 hearing to discuss the bipartisan “Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2015.” No official reason was given for […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 8/7/2015 Perma-Fix Medical does not expect to submit its techneticum-99m production technology for approval by the Food and Drug Administration this year, Lou Centofanti, CEO of parent company Perma-Fix Environmental Services, said this week, but management does anticipate completing the final scale-up of the production technology to a six-curie limit […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 8/7/2015 US Ecology announced this week it has agreed to sell New Jersey-based Allstate Power-Vac Inc. to a private investor group for $58 million. Allstate specializes in industrial cleaning and maintenance for utilities, refineries, chemical plants, and paper mills, along with refinery services such as tank cleaning and temporary storage. […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 8/7/2015 The Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced on Sunday the successful removal of the “the largest and most complex piece of rubble” from the damaged Unit 3 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi site, enabling the clearing of remaining rubble and the rest of the 514 spent fuel assemblies in […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 7/31/2015 Portage has won the $100 million remediation contract for the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) site in Luckey, Ohio, the Army Corps of Engineers’ Buffalo District announced this week. The contract for environmental remediation services and ancillary construction to support the cleanup is worth up to $100 […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 7/31/2015 Holtec International plans next month to submit a letter of intent to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission regarding its proposal to construct a spent nuclear fuel consolidated interim storage facility in southeastern New Mexico, Holtec Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Pierre Oneid said Wednesday during a Nuclear Energy Insider […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 7/31/2015 House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) on Tuesday remained noncommittal regarding a time frame for moving forward a legislative solution to address nuclear waste storage. Speaking at the National Journal’s “Conversation with the Chair” series in Washington, D.C., Upton said he remained “hopeful” that some legislation […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 7/31/2015 The Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission this week unanimously approved the final rules to its update on importing and exporting waste. According to Compact Rules Committee Chair Linda Morris, the final rules have some slight changes from the proposed rules, mainly in the definition of terms. “We did […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 7/31/2015 Perma-Fix Medical S.A. said this week it had finalized the $1 million investment agreement from Digirad Corp. in the company’s technetium-99m production technology. The agreement includes the $1 million investment from Digirad, a nuclear imaging services business, in exchange for 5.4 percent of the outstanding common shares of Perma-Fix […]

RW Monitor 7/31/2015 IN THE INDUSTRY The California Public Utilities Commission approved late last week the use of close to $400 million from Southern California Edison’s San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s decommissioning trust fund. Those funds, according to local reports, will help cover the costs that incurred while shutting down the plant in the last […]

An article appearing in the July 23 edition of RW Monitor incorrectly connected a possible part 61 rule update involving TRU waste to the current part 61 update focused on Site Specific Assessment (SSA) rulemaking, begun in 2009 to address disposal of large quantities of depleted uranium. Each Part 61 rule update if enacted would […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 7/24/2015 The Department of Energy is aiming for a fall 2016 start date for a demonstration project on the use of deep boreholes for the disposal of high-level nuclear waste, a DOE official said last month during a meeting of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB). Deputy Assistant Secretary […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 7/24/2015 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff recommended this week that the commission enable Texas to license and regulate the disposal of Greater Than Class C (GTCC) waste, while the NRC staff would add another wrinkle to the 10.CFR.Part 61 update by adding TRU waste disposal to the rulemaking. The recommendation […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 7/24/2015 Nevada Sens. Harry Reid (D) and Dean Heller (R), both strong opponents of the Yucca Mountain waste storage facility plan, this week introduced legislation that would require state consent before any Nuclear Waste Fund money could be spent on the transport of spent nuclear fuel to a potential repository. […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 7/24/2015 Members of Missouri’s congressional delegation are calling on the Department of Energy to reconsider its rejection of the West Lake landfill cleanup for the Army Corps of Engineers’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program after a potential new waste stream emerged this week that would link the landfill to […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 7/24/2015 The Michigan Sierra Club this week endorsed calls for a referendum during the November 2016 state election that could ban the state’s acceptance of Technologically Enhanced, Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (TENORM) from fracking. The environmental group is calling for a vote to end the disposal of TENORM material in […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 7/24/2015 A federal claims judge last week awarded Entergy Nuclear Palisades $20.6 million for damages caused by the Department of Energy’s failure to dispose of spent nuclear fuel from a company power plant, as outlined in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA). Entergy is seeking $36.4 million for the government’s […]

RW Monitor 7/24/2015 IN THE INDUSTRY AREVA TN’s EOS (Extended Optimized Storage) System license application could receive Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval as early as 2016, the company announced this week. The new EOS system is an evolution of AREVA’s NUHOMS extended spent nuclear fuel storage containers, holding up to 89 BWR fuel assemblies. The company […]