It’s “too late for the Energy Department,” a former commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission wrote this week in an essay for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. “I don’t think any state would ever trust the Energy Department to build and operate a nuclear waste repository.”
Former NRC commissioner Victor Gilinsky recounted the saga of Yucca Mountain from his point of view in the essay for the dovish nuclear watchdog.
Diablo Canyon Power Plant operator Paul Terek placed 21st in the decathlon in the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Following these olympics, Terek suffered a career-ending knee injury while training in the high jump, he told his employer recently, near the start of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. His time as an olympic athlete was “a feeling of all those years and work and sacrifice being realized.”
When asked to draw any parallels between working at the power plant and competing in the Olympic decathlon, Terek said both require juggling a lot at once and it has been a transferable skill he learned when competing. Terek graduated from Michigan State with a degree in mechanical engineering, according to PG&E. He was hired in 2011 as a nuclear reactor and biw works as a reactor operator.
Governor Soichiro Miyashita was poised to sign off on a safety agreement with Aomori Prefecture the city and facility operator Recyclable Fuel Storage Co., Tokyo, Japan, for Japan’s first non-power plant storage facility in the coastal town of Mutsu, The Asahi Shimbum newspaper reported.
The plant was to receive its first waste shipment in March 2025, the newspaper reported.
Stanley York, former chair and executive director of the Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission and treasurer and chair of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Forum, died July 21.
York served two terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1967 and 1969. He held various state office and commission positions for five governors between the years of 1970 and 1997.
His highest level of education obtained was from the University of Wisconsin Law School where he received his Juris Doctorate in 1987, according to an obituary posted online.