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Completion of DOE’s Phased Onsite Return Delayed 1 Month
With a spike in COVID-19 cases, top management at the Department of Energy plans to go “the extra mile” by stretching out its phased return to onsite work for employees and contractors by an additional month, according to a Thursday email. “We are delaying our increased return to the workplace schedule by one month,” Tarak Shah, chief of staff to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, said in a “Team DOE” email Thursday viewed by Weapons Complex Monitor. A DOE spokesperson also confirmed, in a Friday email, the return onsite schedule is being pushed back by a month. While most ‘site critical” staff are already on site ahead of the original… |
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Tank-side Cesium Removal at Hanford Tracking January Startup
The Tank-Side Cesium Removal project at the Hanford Site in Washington state, a key cog in the Department of Energy’s plan to begin bulk solidification of liquid radioactive waste there next year, could start up in January, according to a… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
Early Stumbles for IWTU Included Backwards Valve Labeling, Logistical Snarl
Preparations for a 50-day test-run of a crucial liquid-waste treatment system at the Department of Energy’s Idaho site were cut short Christmas Eve because someone installed an open/closed indicator on the unit’s plumbing backwards, according to the site. The Integrated… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
DOE Info Request on Civil Nuke Credits Program Weeks Away, Agency Says
The Department of Energy is planning to soon take some initial steps to nail down a process for allocating several billion dollars in federal funds to economically-troubled nuclear power plants, an agency spokesperson said this week. A Request for Information… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
Big Spike in Cases Across NNSA Enterprise During Omicron Surge; HQ Office Returns Pushed Back at DOE
With the omicron variant of COVID-19 driving a national spike in cases, the National Nuclear Security Administration reported a record number of active infections across the nuclear security enterprise on Friday. There were 1,265 active cases across the enterprise as… |
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