Waste Control Specialists

The Energy Department’s Environmental Management Field Office at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is studying potential strategies for dealing with combustible radioactive waste held at a private facility in West Texas. Between 300 and 400 drums of waste from Los Alamos have been kept at Waste Control Specialists storage complex in Andrews […]

Acting Assistant Energy Secretary for Environmental Management James Owendoff said Wednesday not to expect a major formal “list” of objectives to be published from his recently completed 45-day review of the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup office. “There is not a list out there per se,” he said during DOE’s National Cleanup Workshop in Alexandria, […]

The Energy Department’s Environmental Management Field Office at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is studying potential strategies for dealing with combustible radioactive waste held at a private facility in West Texas. Between 300 and 400 drums of waste from Los Alamos have been kept at Waste Control Specialists storage complex in Andrews […]

The Energy Department’s Environmental Management (EM) Field Office at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico  is studying potential strategies for dealing with combustible waste stored at a private facility in West Texas. Between 300 and 400 drums of waste from Los Alamos have been held at Waste Control Specialists storage complex in Andrews County […]

It should not be long before the financially troubled Waste Control Specialists announces a new potential buyer, Charles Maguire, the director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s Radioactive Materials Division, told industry representatives recently. “I know some of you have expressed concerns … about WCS’s viability,” Maguire said on Sept. 6 at the ExchangeMonitor’s […]

Waste Control Specialists has withdrawn a request for an exemption from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to store select radioactive waste from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The exemption became unnecessary after all shipments of transuranic waste to Waste Control Specialists’ storage complex in West Texas were halted when a container of material from the Energy […]

Waste Control Specialists has withdrawn a request for an exemption from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to store select radioactive waste from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The exemption became unnecessary after all shipments of transuranic waste to Waste Control Specialists’ storage complex in West Texas were halted when a container of material from Los Alamos […]

The Department of Energy on Wednesday formally started the bidding process on one or multiple new contracts for disposal of federal low-level waste and mixed-low-level waste. Interested parties have until Sept. 22 to submit questions, to LLW_MLLWDisposal@emcbc.doe.gov. Bids are due by 3 p.m. Oct. 23 via FedConnect. “DOE intends, but is not required, to award one […]

By Wayne Barber While there is much consolidation happening in the nuclear services and waste management industry these days, Perma-Fix Environmental Solutions is not looking to buy other businesses, President and CEO Louis Centofanti said recently. Perma-Fix is always interested in what is developing with industry mergers and acquisitions, Centofanti said Aug. 9 during his […]

Holding company Valhi Inc. continues to seek new potential buyers for its Waste Control Specialists (WCS) subsidiary, but has not ruled out shutting down the business in the wake of its foiled acquisition by EnergySolutions. “We have in the past considered and evaluated various strategic alternatives with respect to our Waste Management Segment,” which consists […]

The Department of Energy on Wednesday formally started the bidding process for a new contract for disposal of low-level waste and mixed-low-level waste. Interested parties have until Sept. 22 to submit questions, to LLW_MLLWDisposal@emcbc.doe.gov. Bids are due by 3 p.m. Oct. 23 via FedConnect. “DOE intends, but is not required, to award one or more contracts […]

While there is much consolidation happening in the nuclear services and waste management industry these days, Perma-Fix Environmental Solutions is not looking to buy other businesses, President and CEO Louis Centofanti said last week. Perma-Fix is always interested in what is developing with industry mergers and acquisitions, Centofanti said Aug. 9 during his company’s quarterly […]

Holding company Valhi Inc. said Tuesday it continues to seek new potential buyers for its Waste Control Specialists (WCS) subsidiary, but has not ruled out shutting down the business in the wake of its foiled acquisition by EnergySolutions. “We have in the past considered and evaluated various strategic alternatives with respect to our Waste Management […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission as of Wednesday had not received word on whether Waste Control Specialists intends to move ahead with its suspended application for a spent nuclear fuel storage site in the wake of the company’s foiled merger with rival EnergySolutions. “We have not heard of any change from WCS,” NRC spokesman David McIntyre […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission as of Wednesday had not received word on whether Waste Control Specialists intends to move ahead with its suspended application for a spent nuclear fuel storage site in the wake of the company’s foiled merger with rival EnergySolutions. “We have not heard of any change from WCS,” NRC spokesman David McIntyre […]

After a federal judge blocked Dallas-based Waste Control Specialists’ takeover by EnergySolutions of Salt Lake City, the Texas company is still trying to figure out what to do with more than 100 potentially flammable containers of transuranic waste it is storing for the Energy Department. Asked what the canceled merger means for the company’s contract […]

The federal judge who blocked the merger of EnergySolutions and Waste Control Specialists accepted the U.S. government’s argument that the deal would drastically reduce competition in the market for disposal of low-level radioactive waste (LLRW), according to the court’s newly released opinion. Judge Sue L. Robinson, of U.S. District Court for Delaware, issued the order […]

A federal judge has set a Friday deadline for parties to file an agreed-upon redacted version of the opinion for her ruling blocking the merger of nuclear waste management providers Waste Control Specialists and EnergySolutions. Judge Sue Robinson, of U.S. District Court for Delaware, on June 21 found in favor of the Justice Department in […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission must bill $805.9 million to its licensees for operations in the current fiscal year, the large majority of its annual budget. The nuclear-industry regulator has a total budget authority of $940.1 million for fiscal 2017, under the omnibus appropriations budget passed in May, according to the NRC’s final fee rule, published […]

Valhi Inc. late Friday said it was walking away from the $367 million sale of its Waste Control Specialists subsidiary to EnergySolutions. The announcement came two days after a federal judge blocked the merger following a 10-day antitrust trial in April to May in which the Department of Justice argued that combining the two primary providers […]

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the planned $367 million buyout of Waste Control Specialists by radioactive waste management rival EnergySolutions, raising new questions about the financially troubled company’s plans for interim storage of U.S. commercial nuclear reactor fuel and its future in total. The merger announced in November 2015 would have brought WCS’ waste […]

Energy Secretary Rick Perry raised eyebrows this week by listing facilities in Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas as possible interim storage sites for U.S. nuclear waste, then a day later clarified that his agency has made no decisions on any potential locations. In successive budget hearings before House and Senate Appropriations committees, though, Perry left no […]

Energy Secretary Rick Perry raised eyebrows this week by listing facilities in Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas as possible interim storage sites for U.S. nuclear waste, then a day later clarified that his agency has made no decisions on any potential locations. In successive budget hearings before House and Senate Appropriations committees, though, Perry left no […]

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the planned $367 million buyout of Waste Control Specialists by radioactive waste management rival EnergySolutions. The merger announced in November 2015 would have brought WCS’ waste storage complex in West Texas into EnergySolutions’ broader portfolio of nuclear service offerings. But, in an antitrust lawsuit filed last November, the Justice Department […]

Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Tuesday suggested the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico and the Nevada National Security Site could be used for interim storage for nuclear waste. That would run up against existing law in the first instance and already faces vehement opposition in the second. In his first hearing on Capitol […]

Stakeholders have until July 14 to comment on a draft request for proposals from the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) for a new contract for disposal of low-level and mixed-low-level waste. Waste Control Specialists and EnergySolutions hold the current contracts for transport and disposition of DOE wasate, which also cover Section 11e.(2) byproduct […]

Disputes over several pieces of language did not stop the House Energy and Commerce environment subcommittee on Thursday from sending legislation to advance interim and permanent storage of U.S. nuclear waste to the full panel for consideration. Democrats offered three amendments to the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2017 during a markup session, but […]

Disputes over several pieces of language did not stop the House Energy and Commerce environment subcommittee on Thursday from sending legislation to advance interim and permanent storage of U.S. nuclear waste to the full panel for consideration. Democrats offered three amendments to the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2017 during a markup session, but […]

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said this week that workers have removed the reactor pressure vessel from the STURGIS barge, a key step in completion of dismantlement of the radiologically contaminated vessel. Work began in 2015 at the Port of Galveston in Texas to decommission and disassemble the onetime World War II Liberty Ship […]

As the United States wrestles with management of spent fuel from the nation’s nuclear reactors, Ukraine expects to consolidate its material two years from now, Holtec International announced last week. Ukraine’s consolidated interim storage facility is due to open in 2019 in the Exclusion Zone around the Chernobyl nuclear plant. It would hold spent fuel from […]