Publications: Nuclear Energy & Radwaste Monitor

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 5/9/2014 Government agencies have increased their overall efforts to address uranium mine contamination on the Navajo Reservation, but more still needs to be done, according to a Government Accountability Office report released this week. The extent of contamination and total scope of work still remains unknown, and federal funding for […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 5/9/2014 After experiencing a better than expected first quarter in 2014, U.S. Ecology has upped its expected EBITA for the year by $4-8 million to an estimated $74-78 million, the company said in its first quarter results released this week. According to U.S. Ecology, net income for the first quarter […]

Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 5/9/2014 The National Nuclear Security Administration is transferring $56.65 million from other programs to an effort to preserve the American Centrifuge technology under a new contract being managed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The ORNL subcontract, awarded to USEC, is worth $33.7 million through the end of this fiscal year, and […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 5/9/2014 As Dominion’s Kewaunee Power Station reaches its one year anniversary of ceasing operations this week, the plant has begun preparations to enter into SAFESTOR mode, according to Dominion spokesman Mark Kanz. Dominion announced that it would be shutting Kewaunee down in 2012 due to economic reasons, and it ceased […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 5/9/2014 The Environmental Protection Agency will test the baseball fields adjacent to the West Lake Landfill near St. Louis for contamination, an EPA spokesman said this week. The EPA has faced mounting community pressure, highlighted by a recent letter from the Missouri Attorney General, to test the site after a […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 5/9/2014 A group of senators called on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission late last week to stop granting exemptions to security and emergency response requirements at shutdown reactor sites.  The senators, made up of Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), said […]

RW Monitor 5/9/2014 IN EPA The Environmental Protection Agency announced this week that it has added the Wolff-Alport Chemical Company site in the Ridgewood section of Queens, N.Y., to the federal Superfund list. The soil at the site and nearby sewers were contaminated by radioactive material from the previous activities of the former Wolff-Alport Chemical […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/14/2014 A federal court this week awarded Duke Energy the repayment of costs incurred for the storage of spent nuclear fuel due to the Department of Energy’s failure to live up to its contract to manage the spent fuel, as required by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. The Federal Court […]

The following interview with WCS President Rod Baltzer was performed last week by RW Monitor Reporter Jeremy L. Dillon on the sidelines of the 2014 Waste Management Symposium in Phoenix, Ariz. WCS appears to have really made some changes this year with the recent announcement of receiving approval for exempt waste bulk disposal in its […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/14/2014 The Department of Energy has found no significant environmental impact to conducting transient testing of nuclear fuels and materials at the Idaho National Laboratory. The results clear the way for DOE to resume its work with the Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) reactor, which according to DOE, “involves placing […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/14/2014 IN NRC The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced this week that Renee Simpson has taken over as the director of the Office of Congressional Affairs. Simpson previously served on the House Appropriations and Senate Intelligence committees in senior staff positions, as well as in positions with the offices of Legislative […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/14/2014 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is still considering its options on how to move forward with the supplemental environmental impact statement required for the Yucca Mountain licensing review after the Department of Energy recently said it would not complete it, NRC Chair Allison Macfarlane said this week. “We’re still considering […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]