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Potential two-year COVID delay to UPF, Splitting Pantex, Y-12, among top issues for NNSA
KNOXVILLE, TENN – Revitalizing decaying buildings, decoupling future contracts for two nuclear weapons plants and assessing the financial toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Uranium Processing Facility are among the National Nuclear Security Administration’s key concerns nowadays, officials said here Wednesday. The pandemic has had a ripple effect across the economy and the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) “is not immune to that,” Teresa Robbins, manager of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) production office said during the Energy Technology & Environmental Business Association conference. The NNSA is calculating an updated cost impact on UPF, Robbins said in response to a question from Exchange Monitor. Critical decision-4 on the UPF was…		 Upcoming Events

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DOE asks Idaho for extra six months to start Idaho Integrated Waste Unit ops
The Department of Energy is asking state regulators for another six months to start operating a plant to treat high-level radioactive sodium-bearing waste at the Idaho National Laboratory. In a Sept. 29 letter, DOE asked the Idaho Department of Environmental…
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Savannah River Site to be transferred to NNSA control by 2025, DOE confirms
The National Nuclear Security Administration will take over the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., by 2025, and the transition has started, the Department of Energy confirmed Tuesday. The former plutonium production site is currently the responsibility of DOE’s Office…
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Second round of nuclear credits open to all plant operators, DOE says in draft guidance
As it prepares a second round of funding under a program aimed at propping up the aging U.S. nuclear fleet, the Department of Energy said in draft guidelines last week that the upcoming bailouts need not be limited to plants…
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Work on competition for new nuke production contracts starting in 2023-24, NNSA says
The National Nuclear Security Administration planned to start work on a competition for a pair of new contracts to manage its main nuclear-weapon sites in 2023 and 2024, the agency said this week. In the meantime, Oct. 1 marked the…
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