Tag: Nuclear Waste

May 11, 2023

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted Holtec International a license to build and operate a consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) for spent nuclear fuel in southeastern New Mexico, despite the state’s opposition. Granted on May 9 after an eight-year […]

November 28, 2022

The United States only nuclear waste repository has begun utilizing a newly mined disposal area in Southern New Mexico. Officials from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant say the new first of the waste containers to be sent to the new […]

October 24, 2022

On Friday the Biden Administration announced it will be funding projects to recycle nuclear waste from power plants. A portion of this funding will be going to through reprocessing, which is not a commonly practiced technology in the United States […]

August 18, 2022

Working in the United States Department of Energy for 30 years, Ed McGinnis has seen firsthand the U.S. government’s failed effort to build a nuclear waste repository in Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The project would have been the nation’s most significant […]

July 27, 2022

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, based on research from Stanford University and the University of British Columbia, addressed the problem of nuclear waste from small modular reactors (SMRs). The study said that […]

July 21, 2022

Decommissioning a nuclear waste plant is often a very lengthy and laborious task. A company called Ramco has partnered with Magnox and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to help mediate this problem by taking in the equipment no longer in use […]

July 13, 2022

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected a Bechtel company to manage and operate the nation’s only deep underground repository for nuclear waste: the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Tularosa Basin Range Services LLC, doing business as […]

February 3, 2022

Handing a muted victory to proponents of nuclear and gas, the European Commission (EC) on Feb. 2 adopted a measure that labels some nuclear and gas energy activity as climate-friendly investments. However, it set out strict, potentially limiting technical screening […]

November 18, 2020

Critical Applications Alliance, a Carlsbad-based joint venture between Texas-based Christensen Building Group and Kilgore Industries, is suing Nuclear Waste Partnership who manages and operates the U.S. Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeast New Mexico for breach of […]

March 29, 2018

Waste Control Specialists (WCS) and Orano USA intend to revive licensing of a consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) in Andrews County, Texas, where spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from reactors across the country can be stored until a permanent repository is […]

September 4, 2017

A final Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Low-Level Waste/Mixed Low-Level Waste (LLW/MLLW) Disposal procurement has been issued by the US government’s Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC). The DOE explained that the effort will require […]