The final funding level in the Energy Department’s fiscal 2018 omnibus for the Portsmouth Site is roughly $448 million. The overall fiscal 2019 DOE budget request for Portsmouth is about $415 million. Totals cited in a Tuesday Weapons Complex Morning Briefing article omitted certain line items for the site.
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Wrap up: EM removes uranium mill tailings near Moab; SRPPF new gloveboxes; Holtec pauses fuel loading at Palisades
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has removed 17 million tons of uranium mill tailings from the banks of the Colorado River near Moab, Utah, the agency said in a newsletter this week. Since 2009, crews have transported the tailings by rail to an engineered disposal cell about 30 miles away in Crescent […]