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DOE Could Miss 2036 Targets for Hanford Waste Treatment Plant
Key components of the $17 billion Waste Treatment Plant at the Hanford Site in Washington state might miss the current deadline to begin operation, the U.S. Energy Department acknowledged this week. The Energy Department “cannot project with certainty” when the High-Level Waste Vitrification Facility and the Pretreatment Facility will be completed, Brian Vance, manager for both DOE offices at Hanford, wrote in a Wednesday “notice of serious risk” to Maia Bellon, director of the Washington state Department of Ecology. The notice is being filed in “an abundance of caution” due to a variety of factors, including some unspecified “technical issues” at the Pretreatment Facility and DOE’s short-term priority of treating…		 Upcoming Events

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Senate Races to Complete FY20 Budget Bills
With just a handful of business days until the fiscal 2020 budget year begins, the Senate Appropriations Committee is rushing to approve its spending bills. The full panel has scheduled markups for 10 a.m. Thursday of its defense; energy and…
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SRS Contractor Wants Some Evidence Excluded in Discrimination Trial
As a discrimination case filed against Savannah River Site’s liquid waste contractor approaches trial next month, the company is petitioning a federal judge to bar evidence from being presented regarding four white employees on the basis that their jobs are…
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Yucca Mountain Advocate Shimkus to Leave Congress
Longtime Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), perhaps the loudest voice on Capitol Hill in favor of building a nuclear waste repository under Yucca Mountain in Nevada, on Aug. 30 announced he would not seek re-election in 2020. Shimkus will until his…
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First B61-12, W88 Alt-370 Units Face 16-18 Month Delay
ARLINGTON, Va. — It could take 18 months longer than thought to finish a pair of crucial nuclear weapon refurbishments, a senior National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) official said here Wednesday. The first production units of the B61-12 gravity bomb…
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