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FEATURED UNLOCKED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
Management of DOE Cleanup Office, Industry Consolidation, Procurement Issues Linger Into 2020
Twelve months ago, Anne Marie White was eagerly anticipating her first full year at the helm of the U.S. Department of Energy’s $7 billion-plus Office of Environmental Management. But her tenure as Energy Department assistant secretary for environmental management turned out to be closer to the end rather than the beginning. After being sworn into the job in late March 2018, White was forced to resign effective in June 2019. The former nuclear environmental consultant apparently had strained relations with her immediate boss, Undersecretary of Energy for Science Paul Dabbar. The rift evidently came to a head about White’s handling of public concerns about radioactive contamination at a middle school… |
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Idaho Shipments to WIPP Paused Briefly in November Due to Problem Drum
The U.S. Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico briefly held up some shipments of transuranic waste from the Idaho National Laboratory in November after discovery of a hole in one drum, according to the Defense Nuclear Facilities… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
Concerns Loom Over SRS Salt Waste Processing Facility’s Operational Readiness
The Department of Energy has “serious concerns” over the lack of corrective actions its contractor is taking to prepare the multi-million-dollar Salt Waste Processing Facility for startup at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C. Specifically, the federal agency noted… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
Holtec Projects $2.3 Billion Price Tag for Indian Point Decommissioning
Holtec International believes it can complete decommissioning of the three nuclear reactors at the Indian Point Energy Center in upstate New York in 15 years at a cost of $2.3 billion, according to a new filing with the U.S. Nuclear… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
NNSA Choice on Next-Gen Enrichment Tech Pushed Into 2020
The National Nuclear Security Administration will postpone by months its decision about which of two technologies will power the next U.S. defense-uranium enrichment facility. “NNSA recently notified Congress that it intends to complete its Analysis of Alternatives for supply of… |
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