SCOTUS EPA ruling means NRC can’t license temp storage of spent nuclear fuel, Texas says from Benjamin S. Weiss bit.ly/3IBwFah “Under the major questions doctrine, that is the end of the matter.”

.Bechtel Corporation National will be taking over as the management and operations contractor for DOE WIPP, DOE DOE Environmental Management announced today: bit.ly/3Ro2x5X

Acting boss of DOE nuke cleanup and GAO official will testify: Hearings | Hearings & Legislation | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology science.house.gov/hearings/nucle…

🚨 IT'S A DATE: The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday officially scheduled oral arguments in Texas AG Ken Paxton's suit against NRC for Aug. 29. It'll be the first in-person legal test of interim storage opponents' arguments, including Paxton's recent SCOTUS invocation.

🚨NEW: A judge in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during oral arguments Mon. that she did not see how the agency could claim "this overarching de novo authority" to license private interim storage, according to an audio recording. #txpol

Livermore lab director Budil arrested for driving under the influence, speeding bit.ly/3fruzin

🚨EXCLUSIVE: I got to chat Thu. with @sbrinton, the newly-minted head of spent fuel at Office of Nuclear Energy | US Department of Energy, in one of their first media appearances since taking on the role. We talked about how DOE is defining consent in its interim storage search. Full convo TK. exchangemonitor.com/search-for-spe…

"I love the topic of nuclear waste management ... it is the definition of a wicked problem. It is a problem that isn’t going to be solved by a silver bullet ... It’s going to take time and effort." My full interview with @sbrinton: exchangemonitor.com/unlikely-allie…

Savannah River Site to be transferred to NNSA control by 2025, DOE confirms bit.ly/3fKwGhp

Potential two-year COVID delay to UPF, splitting Pantex, Y-12, among top issues for NNSA bit.ly/3CypIVY

Secretary Jennifer Granholm to me just now: The federal government "has a role to play" in nuclear waste storage despite commercial efforts to do the same. Applauds Finland's "bottom-up" approach to siting their recently-finished geologic repository in Onkalo.

.Secretary Jennifer Granholm on the timeline of DOE’s interim storage effort, earlier: “It obviously has to be demonstrated — and it can be demonstrated — that the [host] community doesn’t have to worry about safety. Those conversations, and the education associated with that, takes some time.”

A top story from this week's RadWaste Monitor: a Mass state senator whose gambit in a recently-passed spending bill to block proposed wastewater discharges from the shuttered Pilgrim nuke plant was blocked by Gov. Baker said she'd try to override the veto. exchangemonitor.com/sponsor-of-mas…

🚨NEW: EM Publications has confirmed that Sam Brinton, deputy asst. secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at Office of Nuclear Energy | US Department of Energy, was charged Oct. 27 in Minnesota with felony theft. The charge carries a max sentence of 5yrs, $10k in fines. exchangemonitor.com/doe-spent-fuel…

Editorial: Sam Brinton’s credibility is now an issue 🔓 bit.ly/3ixTjY0

Waste has been Emplaced! 🚮 We have finally begun emplacing defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in Panel 8 of #WIPP. Read more about the waste emplacement here: wipp.energy.gov/wipp_news_2022…

NEW: Via public records request, I’ve been able to confirm reporting today that a warrant has been issued for DOE deputy asst. secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition Sam Brinton for another luggage theft, this time at Las Vegas’s Harry Reid airport. (cc: EM Publications)

DOE spent fuel lead Brinton accused of second luggage theft. bit.ly/3iQ9kc2 by Benjamin S. Weiss, confirming today's reports with warrant from Las Vegas Metro PD.