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The licence issued for the construction and operation of a consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) for used nuclear fuel in Texas has been cancelled by a US appeals court. The court ruled that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) does not have the authority to license a private storage facility away from nuclear reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 31 August 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Court-annuls-licence-for-Texas-used-fuel-store
A metal cask for the storage of used nuclear fuel, jointly developed by Doosan Enerbility of South Korea and NAC International of the USA, has received design certification from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 20 January 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-approval-for-metal-storage-cask
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved the transfer of the licences for the Palisades nuclear power plant from Entergy Nuclear Operations Inc to Holtec International following the plant's retirement next year. Holtec plans to take control of the Michigan plant and begin its decommissioning with a month of its retirement.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 16 December 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Licence-transfer-expands-Holtec-decommissioning-fl
Accelerated Decommissioning Partners and Duke Energy on 1 October completed a transaction to start decontamination and dismantlement of the Crystal River nuclear power plant in Florida in 2020 instead of 2067.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 07 October 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsduke-energy-completes-transaction-enabling-start-of-dd-at-crystal-river-8166290
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the transfer of the nuclear plant’s licence from Duke Energy to Accelerated Decommissioning Partners on 1 April and the Florida Public Service Commission approved the transaction on 18 August.
At the time, Duke Energy said it can have the nuclear segment of the decommissioning done by 2027 at a cost that has been locked in at $540m.
Under a contract reached in May 2019, Duke Energy remains the licensed owner of the plant and retains ownership and control of the trust fund that pays for decommissioning. Duke Energy will continue to have access to the site and will pay Accelerated Decommissioning Partners only for work completed.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 06 October 2020
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/duke-energy-confirms-decommissioning-to-begin-50-years-sooner-than-planned-10-1-2020
Ukraine's nuclear power plant operator Energoatom last week completed functional testing of Holtec International's HI-TRAC and HI-STAR 190 containers at unit 3 of the Rovno nuclear power plant during the VVER-1000 reactor's scheduled maintenance outage.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 28 August 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Energoatom-tests-Holtec-used-fuel-casks-at-Rovno-p
Ukraine's nuclear power plant operator Energoatom last week completed functional testing of Holtec International's HI-TRAC and HI-STAR 190 containers at unit 3 of the Rovno nuclear power plant during the VVER-1000 reactor's scheduled maintenance outage.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Monday, 12 August 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Energoatom-tests-Holtec-used-fuel-casks-at-Rovno-p
US utility Duke Energy on 30 May announced plans to decommission the single-unit Crystal River nuclear plant in Florida by 2027.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 03 June 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsaccelerated-decommissioning-planned-for-crystal-river-7240380
US Sandia National Laboratories announced on 18 July that researchers had built a scaled test assembly that mimics a dry cask storage container for used nuclear fuel. This will be used to study how nuclear fuel temperatures change during storage and how the peak fuel temperatures affect the integrity of the metal cladding surrounding the fuel.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 20 July 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssandia-labs-tests-used-fuel-casks-6258757
US power company Entergy said on 8 November, it had reached an agreement with dismantling and remediation firm NorthStar Group Services to sell the closed Vermont Yankee NPP and transfer the plant's licences to subsidiaries of NorthStar. Vermont Yankee is a single-unit 604MWe boiling water reactor which was shut down in December 2014 for economic reasons, although safety regulators had granted a licence for the unit to operate until 2032.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 15 November 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-entergy-sells-vermont-yankee-npp-to-northstar-5669453