The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is taking public comment on its draft supplemental environmental impact statement for renewing the operating licenses of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, the agency said in a press release.
The environmental review is one of the steps the NRC has to complete before approving plant owner Pacific Gas and Electric’s (PG&E) application to extend Diablo Canyon’s federal license. The utility applied for a 20-year extension but the state of California has so far only cleared a five-year extension.
NRC staff have said they could finish reviewing PG&E’s application in August 2025 or so.
Amentum, Chantilly, Va., was awarded a contract to dismantle parts of a nuclear reactor in Lithuania, the company wrote this week in a press release.
The seven-year deal is worth about $6 million, Amentum said in the release,
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission published a new rule for licensing advanced nuclear reactors and is seeking public comment, the agency announced this week.
The public comment period on the “Risk-Informed, Technology-Inclusive Regulatory Framework for Commercial Nuclear Plants” rulemaking opened Oct. 31 and runs through Dec. 30, NRC said in a Federal Register notice.