The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board earlier this month closed out a recommendation from 2002 on design, implementation and maintenance of administrative controls, according to an Oct. 17 letter posted last week from DNFSB Chairman Peter Winokur. The original recommendation raised issue with the “lack of rigor and quality assurance” for some administrative controls. In late August, the Department sent a letter to the DNFSB asking it to close out the recommendation, noting that DOE has “performed a series of line management and independent oversight reviews to verify proper [specific administrative controls] implementation,” among other actions. After reviewing the letter, DNFSB has decided to close the recommendation, Winokur wrote.
DNFSB CLOSES OUT RECOMMENDATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROLS
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 […]