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November 21, 2013 Federal Court Suspends Nuclear Waste Fee Payments So long as the federal government has no viable alternative to Yucca Mountain as a repository for nuclear waste, nuclear power ratepayers should not be charged an annual fee to cover the cost of that disposal, the U.S. Court of Appeals… Read More »
NRC Directs Staff to Proceed with Yucca Mountain License Review The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Monday directed agency staff to complete the long-delayed safety evaluation report (SER) for the Department of Energy's (DOE's) license application to build the Yucca Mountain permanent waste repository. Reflecting the Obama administration’s opposition to… Read More » Public Utilities Commission Scrutinizes Xcel Cost Overruns The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) will hire a nuclear engineering consultant to investigate cost overruns associated with Xcel Energy’s Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant Life Cycle Management/Extended Power Uprate Project. The project, at an estimated cost of $320 million, was… Read More » 20,000 Nuclear Weapons Later, Megatons to Megawatts Program Complete U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced last week that the final shipment of low enriched uranium (LEU) derived from Russian nuclear weapons had departed from the port of St. Petersburg, Russia. “For two decades, one in ten light bulbs in… Read More » Basemat Milestone for Plant Vogtle Unit 4 Georgia Power has completed placement of the basemat structural concrete for the nuclear island at the Vogtle Unit 4 site, where it is the second of two units currently under construction. Georgia Power says that the basemat concrete placement was… Read More » TEPCO Begins Removing Fuel from Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) today began the delicate process of removing spent fuel from Unit 4 of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The six-unit site has two reactor groups, comprising Units 1–4 and Units 5 and 6. Unit… Read More » TVA to Retire More Coal Units, Banks on Nuclear Future The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will retire more than 3 GW at eight coal units in Alabama and Kentucky to address "challenging trends" that point to lower power demand, a slow economy, uncertainty in commodity pricing, and tougher air pollution rules.… Read More » NERC: Integrating Variable Energy Will Require Shift on System Planning, Operations Integrating large quantities of variable energy resources into the North American bulk power system will require fundamental electricity system planning and operational changes to ensure continued reliability, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) says in a new report that… Read More »
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