Fraud, corruption trial underway for former SNC-Lavalin executive Sami Bebawi

As reported by the Canadian Press.

Canadian firm SNC-Lavalin has partnered with U.S.-based Holtec International to form the consortium Comprehensive Decommissioning International.

Holtec itself also has bribery conviction, and additional bribery allegation, skeletons in its closet.

Despite this, Holtec has already secured the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's rubber-stamp, to take ownership of the shutdown atomic reactors at Oyster Creek, New Jersey and Pilgrim, Massachusetts, for decommissioning and high-level radioactive waste management.

Holtec is also scheming to take over the Indian Point, New York reactors, as well as Palisades, Michigan, once those nuclear power plants shut down in the years ahead (Big Rock Point, an already decommissioned but still contaminated site also in Michigan, along with its irradiated nuclear fuel, would be lumped in the deal along with Palisades).

Holtec has also applied for a construction and operating permit to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to transport 173,600 metric tons of commercial irradiated nuclear fuel to New Mexico for so-called consolidated interim storage.

Rep. Greg Walden, top Republican on powerful House panel, says he will retire

As reported by the Washington Post.

Walden (R-OR) is Ranking Republican on the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee. The politically powerful committee has jurisdiction over commercial irradiated nuclear fuel policy, such as the Yucca Mountain dump targeted at Western Shoshone Indian land in Nevada, and Consolidated Interim Storage Facilities (currently targeted at the Permian Basin in New Mexico and Texas).

Walden has long led the advocacy for such dangerously bad nuclear power industry schemes.

Update on November 1, 2019 by admin

Politico has also reported on this story:

• Politico - Greg Walden to retire in latest sign of GOP doubts about retaking House - By John Bresnahan, Melanie Zanona and Ally Mutnick

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Who will be the ultimate bearer of the nation’s nuclear waste?

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See the article here.

It reports:

Though New Mexico will resist, and may prevail. “Folks in New Mexico are not going to take it,” said Albuquerque resident Don Hancock, who is the director of the Nuclear Waste Safety program at the Southwest Research and Information Center, an advocacy group focused on environmental and social justice. “We’ll stop this.”

SRIC is an Alliance for Nuclear Accountability member group, as is Beyond Nuclear.

Re: ISP/WCS, TX: MOTION OF INTERVENOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COALITION FOR LEAVE TO FILE LATE-FILED CONTENTION, AND CONTENTION 17

MOTION OF INTERVENOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COALITION FOR LEAVE TO FILE LATE-FILED CONTENTION, AND CONTENTION 17

Filed by Toledo, Ohio attorney Terry Lodge, on behalf of SEED Coalition of Texas.

Robert Alvarez serves as expert witness. See his expert witness declaration, here. See his CV here.

The contention is based on revelations contained in a U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board report, published in September 23, 2019.

Re: Holtec/ELEA, NM: SIERRA CLUB’S MOTION TO FILE A NEW LATE-FILED CONTENTION

1. SIERRA CLUB’S MOTION TO FILE A NEW LATE-FILED CONTENTION

Filed by Wally Taylor, attorney of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on behalf of the Rio Grand Chapter of the Sierra Club.

Robert Alvarez serves as expert witness. See his expert witness declaration, here. See his CV here.

The contention is based on revelations contained in a U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board report, published in September 23, 2019.