It was a banner week for nuclear waste disposal reports. Even as the U.S. Department of Energy published a new consent-based siting strategy, the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Waste Services, a government group, published a 23-page roadmap about its efforts to build waste repositories.
The U.K. government created Nuclear Waste Services in 2022, folding existing waste management programs at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in with a groups responsible for low-level and geologic disposal facilities.
An attorney blasted Holtec and its CEO, Krishna Singh, in a scathing op-ed published April 23 in the Albuquerque Journal, writing that the company’s record at the power plants it is decommissioning merited extra scrutiny for Holtec broadly and Singh specifically.
Holtec, which has a large stable of nuclear decommissioning projects, has proposed building an interim storage site for spent nuclear fuel in southeast New Mexico. The company has faced organized hostility and opposition in New Mexico, where the state legislature and governor this year banned storage of spent fuel in the state.
William Wilson, who worked with the U.S. Geological Survey to determine whether Nevada’s Yucca Mountain was a safe location for a deep geologic repository for radioactive waste, died April 18 in Chapel Hill, N.C.
The cause was complications associated with Parkinson’s disease, according to an obituary published by a funeral home in Raleigh. Wilson was 88 and is survived by his wife, according to the obituary.
