Nuclear News Roundup July 30, 2016

State regulators have approved a proposal by Georgia Power to spend up to $99 million on site investigation and licensing costs for a nuclear power plant at a new site at Stewart County in the south-west of the state. world-nuclear-news.org

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday it was sending an Augmented Inspection Team (AIT) to the Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel Plant in Columbia, S.C., to look into why an air scrubber had built up an unexpected amount of uranium-bearing material. nuclearstreet.com

A large wildfire was burning toward the Hanford nuclear reservation Sunday after spreading from Grant and Yakima counties into Benton County overnight Saturday. tri-cityherald.com

The Savannah River Site Citizens Advisory Board is not in favor of accepting spent nuclear fuel from Germany. chronicle.augusta.com