Publications: Nuclear Energy & Radwaste Monitor

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/20/2015 EnergySolutions announced this week that it had acquired MHF Services, an integrated packaging, transportation and logistics provider of radioactive, hazardous and non-hazardous materials. MHF Services will operate as its own subsidiary under the EnergySolutions banner, the company said. Terms of the deal were not provided. “We are pleased that […]

Todd Jacobson RW Monitor 3/20/2015 Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), chairman of the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, said this week that he is in favor of a waiver that would allow research quantities of spent nuclear fuel into Idaho, and he urged Department of Energy cleanup officials to settle differences with Idaho officials over […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/20/2015 While Waste Control Specialists experienced a better fourth quarter and 2014 than the same periods in 2013, the company still had a net loss for 2014, WCS parent company Valhi announced late last week. Both sales and disposal volume were up in the second half of 2014, due mainly […]

Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 3/20/2015 Uranium enrichment company Centrus Energy Corporation reported a net income of $297.8 million for 2014, a big boost compared to the net loss of $158.9 million the company experienced in 2013, according to financial results released this week. Revenue from low enriched uranium sales declined 65 percent last year after […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/20/2015 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking public comment on its proposed draft list of prioritized low-level radioactive waste (LLW) tasks based upon updates to its 2007 strategic assessment, according to a posting in the Federal Register late last week. The NRC released a strategic assessment list for high-priority LLW […]

RW Monitor 3/20/2015 IN THE INDUSTRY Perma-Fix Environmental Services CEO Lou Centofanti has been appointed to serve on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee, Perma-Fix announced this week. The CINTAC is composed of industry representatives from the civil nuclear industry, and it meets periodically throughout the year to discuss the most […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/13/2015 As this week marked four years after the disaster at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear site, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reported this week that 750 tons of rainwater containing Strontium-90 may have seeped into the ground at the cleanup site. Following heavy rains at the site, water accumulated in […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/13/2015 Kurion’s newly appointed President Jacques Besnainou, a former AREVA official, said this week he hopes to grow the company’s work in the Department of Energy. Besnainou believes his experience working in the Department of Energy cleanup complex will prove valuable. “If you look at AREVA, I was the chairman […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/13/2015 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission officially will move forward with the supplemental Environmental Impact Statement needed for the Yucca Mountain license review, according to the Staff Requirements Memoranda released this week. NRC Chair Steven Burns had said last month the NRC would complete the EIS in the Department of Energy’s […]

RW Monitor 3/13/2015 ExchangeMonitor Publications and Forums was acquired this week by Access Intelligence, LLC, a business-to-business media and information company headquartered in Rockville, Md., serving the chemical, defense, satellite, aviation, cable, telecommunications, media and public relations markets. The acquisition comes roughly three months after Ed Helminski, the founder of ExchangeMonitor Publications and Forums, passed […]

Kenneth Fletcher and Todd Jacobson RW Monitor 3/13/2015 The appointment of former Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Poneman as the new President and CEO of uranium enrichment firm Centrus Energy Corp. is causing concerns among some on Capitol Hill. During Poneman’s tenure at DOE, the Department played a big role in plans by the company, […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/13/2015 A state would be required to issue an official proclamation of consent for building a repository for spent nuclear fuel under legislation introduced this week by members of the Nevada Congressional delegation. Sens. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Dean Heller (R-Nev.), as well as Reps. Joe Heck (R-Nev.) and Dina […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/13/2015 The Tennessee Division of Occupational Safety and Health (TOSHA) has fined EnergySolutions $6,450 for violations related to the worker fatality at its Erwin facility, according to a March 2 report released this week. The report determined that EnergySolutions committed two “serious” violations related to the Oct. 14 death. “It […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/13/2015 Two former Idaho governors last week threatened the Department of Energy with litigation should it move forward with planned shipments of commercial spent nuclear fuel to the Idaho National Laboratory for research purposes. Former Govs. Cecil Andrus (D) and Phil Batt (R), both of whom worked to establish the […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/13/2015 The Department of Energy denied rumors this week that there it had ever received a proposal from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) about a possible use of the Yucca Mountain site for research, sending a letter March 7 from DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary […]

RW Monitor 3/13/2015 IN DOE The Department of Energy late last week extended the response time an extra month for its solicitation for a contractor to assist in the movement of spent nuclear fuel from research reactors to an unidentified national laboratory. The new response date will be April 13, compared to the original March […]

Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 3/6/2015 Former Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Poneman has been named president and chief executive officer of uranium enrichment firm Centrus Energy Corp. Poneman, who left his DOE post in October 2014 after being the longest serving deputy secretary, is known for his DOE work on nonproliferation and nuclear energy policy, […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/6/2015 EnergySolutions is pursuing a plan that would open its Barnwell, S.C. disposal facility to receiving waste from outside the Atlantic Compact, EnergySolutions spokesman Mark Walker confirmed this week. According to a proposal that still needs state legislative approval, the facility would accept out-of-compact Class B and C waste, while […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/6/2015 Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said funding for a pilot interim storage facility would be included in the Senate’s upcoming Fiscal Year 2016 appropriation bill, during remarks made this week at a Nuclear Regulatory Commission budget hearing. Both he and subcommittee Ranking Member Diane […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/6/2015 Canadian Nuclear Partners CEO Pierre Tremblay is departing the company, but Ontario Power Generation, CNP’s parent company, reaffirmed this week that it would remain in the bidding process for the Chalk River Government-owned, Contractor-operated contact. Tremblay had served 38 years with the company. “Yes, I can confirm that Pierre […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/6/2015 Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) ripped the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel Rule this week for allowing the indefinite storage of spent fuel on-site at reactors. The NRC issued last August its revised Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/6/2015 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week approved the emergency planning exemption requests for both the San Onofre Generating Station (SONGS) and Vermont Yankee Station. The NRC Staff had previously recommended both reactors receive the requested exemptions due to the decreased risk of an emergency at a defueled and shutdown reactor. […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/6/2015 Following a $5.4 billion loss for 2014, AREVA this week announced plans to cut costs and re-focus the company on core business. The plan calls for AREVA to refocus on core nuclear processes, re-forge the partnership with EDF, and strengthen the development of its presence in China in an […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/6/2015 The Department of Energy issued a Request for Proposals this week for low-level and mixed-low level waste treatment services for its Office of Environmental Management cleanup program. The current set of Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity-type contracts for waste treatment services ends in June 2015. The RFP could result in the […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/6/2015 A federal court late last week awarded the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) an additional $22.5 million in its spent nuclear fuel case against the Department of Energy. These damages come in addition to the $53.1 million the Federal Court of Claims awarded SMUD back in June for costs […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 2/27/2015 Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz anticipates that Congressional action would be needed before the Department of Energy could begin storing waste at the proposed Waste Control Specialists spent fuel/high-level waste interim storage facility, he told reporters after a hearing this week before the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 2/27/2015 While the Army Corps of Engineers prepares to finalize the Request for Proposal for the Shallow Land Disposal Area in Armstrong County, Pa., potential bidders have raised concerns this week over the lack of indemnification for the contract. Without indemnification, many major companies may stay away from lucrative cleanup […]