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Publications: RadWaste & Materials Monitor

  • Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.
    Cleanup & Remediation

    NRC IG REPORT QUESTIONS HANDLING OF SLDA FUSRAP SITE

    Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/14/2014 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is coming under criticism for its oversight and record keeping activities for the Army Corps of Engineers’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program’s Shallow Land Disposal Area, located in Parks Township, Pa, in an NRC Inspector General’s Office report released this week. The IG found […]

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    International

    Q&A: IRID’S KAZUHIRO SUZUKI

    The following interview with Kazuhiro Suzuki, Executive Director of Japan’s International Research Institute for Decommissioning, was conducted last week on the sidelines of the 2014 Waste Management Symposium by ExchangeMonitor Publications CEO Martin Schneider and RW Monitor Reporter Jeremy L. Dillon. To start, can you talk a little about what people can expect from your […]

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    International

    DUTCH MEDICAL ISOTOPE COMPANY WON’T MEET 2015 DEADLINE FOR SWITCH TO LEU USE

    Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/14/2014 A Dutch medical isotope company will not meet its goal of shifting to the use of low enriched uranium for the production of molybdenum-99 by the 2015 target date, according to a meeting held this week with White House officials. Mallinckrodt confirmed to White House officials that it would […]

  • Rows of yellow barrels marked with radioactive warning labels stored in an industrial warehouse.
    Commercial Low-Level Waste

    OFFICIALS RECOMMEND NEW LOOK AT EFFECTIVENESS OF LLRW FRAMEWORK

    Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/14/2014 Members of a panel made of up of government and industry officials recommended a gap analysis of the current regulatory framework for low-level radioactive waste during a Nuclear Regulatory Commission public meeting held last week to discuss the NRC’s strategic assessment of the  low-level radioactive waste regulatory program. The […]

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    International

    CHALK RIVER BIDDING TEAMS BEGIN TO EMERGE AS CANADA ANNOUNCES RFRE

    Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/14/2014 As the procurement to manage Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s nuclear laboratories moves to the next stage, at least three teams appear to have formed to go after the job, RW Monitor has learned. One team, led by B&W and including Battelle and the U.K. firm Cavendish Nuclear, publicly […]