Energy Solutions of Oak Ridge, TN has applied to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to import up to 1000 tons of radioactive waste from Eckert and Ziegler Nuclitec, a German company that specializes in the collection, processing, and disposal of these materials from hospitals, research, and technical facilities world wide.
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1000 Tons of German radioactive waste to be burned in Oak Ridge incinerator
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Energy Solutions rethinks on waste imports
Monday, July 19, 2010Energy Solutions is adopting a new international business strategy whereby, rather than importing foreign radioactive waste for processing and disposal at its US facility, it will help overseas customers dispose of such waste in their own country.
The company - which has faced strong opposition to its plan to import waste from decommissioned nuclear facilities in Italy for processing and recycling at its facility in Clive, Utah - said that under the new strategy, no internationally generated radioactive waste would be disposed of at the site.
EnergySolutions to Continue Magnox Cleanup
Wednesday, December 10, 2008Today, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) in the United Kingdom announced that the competition for the new contract for the cleanup of the Magnox reactor sites will commence in 2011. Award of the contract is expected by the end of 2012. EnergySolutions will continue to lead this important cleanup project during this time period and it will bid on the new contract.
The NDA stated that it would select a single operator for Magnox North Limited, Magnox South Limited and Research Sites Restoration Limited.
Company celebrates bittersweet birthday
Sunday, November 16, 2008EnergySolutions Inc. celebrated its first year Friday as a publicly traded company.
But the party couldn't have been very festive. The nuclear-waste company's stock price traded close to its 52-week low at $3.96, a drop of less than 1 percent.
UK's nuclear agency hopes to extend life at Oldbury plant
Thursday, November 6, 2008The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has formally advised the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate - the country's nuclear safety regulator - that it plans to extend the operating life at Oldbury nuclear power station, the NDA said Wednesday.
EnergySolutions not true to its word
Wednesday, October 29, 2008Remember that "The Simpsons" episode where Homer gains so much weight he plugs the cooling tower? Hilarious stuff. Laugh out loud funny.
This joke EnergySolutions is playing on all of us - nuclear regulators, the governor and Utah residents? Not so funny.
No Italian nuclear waste coming to Utah, for now
Tuesday, October 7, 2008Nuclear waste from Italy won't be rolling into Utah anytime soon.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday it is postponing a decision on whether low-level radioactive waste from Italy can be buried in Tooele County. In order to grant a license, federal regulators must be sure that the waste has somewhere suitable to go, and they won't have that assurance unless a federal court ruling clears the way, the NRC said.
Reactor’s final de-fuelling misson begins
Wednesday, August 27, 2008MAGNOX North’s Chapelcross site has begun the next phase in its life with the start of final de-fuelling of Reactor 1.
The first fuel element was removed from the reactor core on August 18, beginning the active commissioning of the newly upgraded fuel route.
Senators join effort to block EnergySolutions' nuke waste imports plan
Wednesday, July 2, 2008America's landfills for low-level nuclear waste should be conserved for America's waste, according to a new, bipartisan bill to be introduced next week in the U.S. Senate.
The bill targets efforts by Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions to use its Tooele County landfill for contaminated cleanup waste from Italy's defunct nuclear reactors and maybe other foreign waste in the future. And it echoes a bill proposed in the House of Representatives by U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, and two colleagues.
Energy firm offers deal to start nuclear clean-up
Sunday, June 1, 2008Energysolutions and its partner Toshiba propose taking ownership of Magnox sites and building new reactors on them
