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Hanford’s pre-treated waste might not meet vit plant criteria
A storage tank spoiled a batch of liquid radioactive waste at the Hanford Site that was thought to be clean enough for disposal, according to a contractor memo seen by the Exchange Monitor. The waste from Hanford’s tank farm, part of a less-radioactive tranche that is supposed to be solidified starting in 2025 by the Bechtel National-built Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, had been scrubbed by the Tank Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) outside the plant and piped into a nearby tank, designated AP-106, for storage. But recent sampling of TSCR-treated waste stored in AP-106 revealed higher levels of radioactive contamination than is allowed in the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant…
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And then there were 2 board members at DNFSB
With long-timer Jessie Hill Roberson’s Wednesday retirement from the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the federal government’s independent safety watchdog for nuclear-weapon sites is down to two members. Chair Joyce Connery and Vice Chair Thomas Summers are the only two…
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Small, woman-owned Virginia biz claims $208M Hanford occupational health contract
The Department of Energy has chosen a Virginia-based small business for a new occupational healthcare contract, worth up to $208 million over seven years, at the Hanford Site in Washington state. Hampton, Va.-based Inomedic Health Applications, a disadvantaged and woman-owned…
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Expenses of Palisades restart detailed in FOIA trove shared by antinukers
The most expensive item needed to restart the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan is a new steam generator that will cost half a billion dollars, according to a federal grant application from Holtec International obtained by an antinuclear group and…
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NNSA kicks can on facility crucial to disposing of old warhead cores
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s drive to make new nuclear-weapon cores has delayed disposal of old ones, according to an agency statement emailed to the Exchange Monitor on Tuesday. Amid the expansion of the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s PF-4 Plutonium Facility and…
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