The NRC is considering a request from Constellation Energy Generation, LLC to approve the release of 172.2 acres of land to DeWitt County, Illinois for a new marina, according to a regulatory filing posted online.
A previous licensee for Clinton Power Station, Unit 1, AmerGen Energy Company, LLC had executed a Quit Claim Deed for the 172.7 acres of land in September 2003 without obtaining approval in accordance with NRC guidelines, according to the filing. The plant’s NRC operating license runs through April 17, 2027.
BMX Technologies has started what it thinks will be a roughly 18-month process to evaluate locations for a new TRISO nuclear fuel production facility in Wyoming, the Lynchburg, Va., company announced this week in a press release.
TRISO fuel is “ideal for advanced reactor designs requiring different fuel configurations and enrichments,” BWXT wrote in its press release.
Tony Robinson will be the new chief executive officer of Framatome Inc., the French company’s North American business, effective August 5, 2024, the company announced this week in a press release.
Robinson has been in the nuclear industry for over 35 years, and with the company for 25 holding various senior executive positions, according to the release. He will replace Kathy William, who retired. Framatome designs nuclear power plants manufactures plant components.
Reps. Michael Levin (D-Calif.) and August Pfluger (R-Texas) chided the Department of Energy for failing to dispose of spent nuclear fuel from power plants in an amendment they co-sponsored to the bill containing the Department of Energy’s 2025 budget.
The amendment “[i[ncreases and decreases funding for the Office of Nuclear Energy to express concern about the cost to taxpayers of the federal government failing to fulfill its contractual obligations to dispose of spent nuclear fuel beginning in 1998, and to emphasize the importance of a durable and integrated federal solution to manage our spent nuclear fuel.”
Kebaowek First Nation challenged in court Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ project to permanently dispose of more than 35 million cubic feet of low-level radioactive waste in a shallow mound less than one mile from the Ottawa River, Canada’s National Observer reported last week.
The project was approved by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in January 2024. Kebaowek First Nation argued in court that Canadian Nuclear Laboratories did not secure the nation’s free, prior and informed consent during the licensing process, which is necessary under Canadian law, according to the National Observer.
The Council on Foreign Relations is welcoming back former Centrus Energy Corp. CEO Daniel Poneman as senior fellow. He returns years after a brief stint at the council that lasted only from the fall of 2009 to the summer of 2009, when he became deputy secretary of energy.
Poneman retired this year as CEO of Centrus. He was deputy secretary of energy and chief operating officer of DOE from 2009 to 2014. In 2015, he joined Centrus, which had just rebranded from U.S. Enrichment Corp. after a bankruptcy filing.
Former U.S. Ecology board member John Sahlberg died July 4 of cancer, according to an obituary for the Boise, Idaho, resident.
“The family man, fisherman, and attorney was 71 years old,” the obit reads.
