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Ceram has won a contract to evaluate alternative technologies for dealing with the decommissioning of waste stored in the First Generation of Magnox Storage Pond (FGMSP). The contract is with Sellafield Ltd - the company responsible for decommissioning the Sellafield nuclear site and processing waste...

Chinese company Changsha Boiler Plant Co Ltd (CBP) has initiated construction on a plasma furnace that will become China's first reactor to process radioactive nuclear power plant waste, according to China Daily. Construction began Tuesday at the company's headquarters in Changsha, said Huang...

French regulators have confirmed that no radiation was released and no employees received excessive doses following an explosion at a nuclear waste treatment plant in France that killed one worker and injured four others Monday. France's Autorite de Surete Nucleaire (ASN) reported that the resulting...

While the House of Representatives is embroiled in a dispute over the 2011 budget, the Energy and Commerce Committee also is investigating a controversial budget move made two years ago – the abandonment of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. Late last week, committee chairman Rep. Fred...

On Tuesday, the Nuclear Energy Institute joined 16 utilities in suing the federal government to suspend a one-cent-per-kilowatt-hour nuclear power surcharge earmarked for the now-defunct Yucca Mountain waste repository. Companies and ratepayers have paid the surcharge since 1982, and the corollary...

French energy group Areva has entered tentative talks with the Tennessee Valley Authority that could pave the way for TVA’s nuclear plants to use fuel made from retired weapons. On Friday, the company announced it signed a letter of intent with TVA to initiate discussions on the use of fuel...

The Department of Energy on Friday issued a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) on low-level radioactive waste disposal, with public meetings set for April and May in cities near potential waste sites in Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Nevada, New Mexico and South Carolina. The EIS addresses...

Areva will shuffle the CEOs at three of its subsidiaries, the French energy group announced Wednesday, with Transnuclear Inc. chief operating officer Bob Grubb stepping in as acting president and CEO at that company starting March 1. Grubb holds a master's in science in civil engineering...

Attorneys general from New York, Connecticut and Vermont announced Tuesday that they plan to sue the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over a recent ruling on waste storage at nuclear plants. Specifically, they object to an NRC rule issued in late December that allows plants to keep spent fuel on...

- Edited By Tom Lamar- EnergySolutions Inc. is making a deal with a Sweden-based competitor, Studsvik, to dispose of solid nuclear waste in Utah. The Deseret News of Salt Lake City reported Tuesday that EnergySolutions signed a contract in December with Studsvik Inc. That's a U.S. subsidiary...

- Edited By Chris Reed - A Texas judge has temporarily halted plans for Waste Control Specialists WCS to begin allowing radioactive waste to be disposed at their facility. State District Judge Jon Wisser sided with environmentalists as he signed a temporary restraining order yesterday against the...

"While scientific and technical analyses are essential, they will not, and arguably should not, carry the day unless they address, substantively and procedurally, the issues that concern the public." Source: Washington State University A renewed federal effort to fix the nation's...

The Skull Valley Goshute Indian Tribe and a group of utility companies may revisit their plan to develop a commercial spent fuel storage facility in Utah's west desert, a federal judge ruled. - By Linton Levy - Judge David M. Ebel vacated decisions by the U.S. Department of Interior that had...

My views on the approach this Administration has chosen to take when it comes to terminating Yucca Mountain and setting the mission of the Blue Ribbon Commission are well known. The Commission was formed so that the Obama Administration could put off decisions about nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel...

“Today’s decision affirms what I have been saying all along - Yucca Mountain remains the legally designated national repository for spent nuclear fuel and high level defense waste, and the Department of Energy has no authority to withdraw the license application. Only Congress can change...

The Portsmouth facility, and a sister plant under construction in Paducah, Kentucky, will convert 700,000 metric tons of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) into uranium oxide (UO2), the most benign waste form with the safest disposition options, and aqueous hydrogen fluoride (HF), which can be sold...

This was a bipartisan amendment aimed at ensuring that defense nuclear wastes are not stranded in our states indefinitely and are instead safely stored in the scientifically-proven national repository at Yucca Mountain - Edited by April Murelio - Congressman Doc Hastings (R-WA) and Congressman...

In the area of nuclear energy, the Nuclear Modeling staff specializes in developing and applying computational methods and software for simulating radiation in order to support the design and safety of nuclear facilities, improve reactor core designs and nuclear fuel performance, and ensure the safety...

The Obama administration wants to withdraw its application to build Yucca Mountain. While the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering the proposal. Washington state and South Carolina are suing to prevent the government from killing the project - By Stephen Heiser - Two Washington state congressmen...

The contract includes performance goals to accelerate the cleanup of nuclear waste left over from the production of nuclear weapons and related research, including protective clothing, tools and other contaminated material. WIPP is the world’s first underground repository certified for the safe...

Opening Statement As Prepared for U.S. Senator George V. Voinovich (R-OH); Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Hearing on NRC Oversight - Edited By April Murelio - Thank You, Mr Chairman. Chairman Carper, thank you for holding this hearing. I would like to...

Ratepayers have been paying for a nuclear materials storage solution for years and it is about time we acted. Because the government has been unable to live up to its responsibilities in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, taxpayers are on the hook for billions of dollars in liability costs – cost that...

The name of the game in cleaning up nuclear waste is to concentrate the dangerous isotopes as efficiently as possible," Kanatzidis said. "That's where this new material does its job - By Louise Lerner - Like a Venus flytrap, a newly discovered chemical material is a picky eater—it...

Utilities contend that the DOE has collected over $33 billion since 1983, never came for nuclear waste and has no federal waste management plan - By Stephen Heiser - The Nuclear Energy Institute and over a dozen utilities companies have filed suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...

Company Reports Solid Performance of Diverse Portfolio; nuclear work includes steam generators and waste handling - Edited by Stephen Heiser - Bechtel Corporation announced 2009 revenue of $30.8 billion; new work booked of $20.3 billion; and backlog revenue of $82.1 billion. Revenue and new work...