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FEATURED UNLOCKED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
NNSA COVID Count Again Sets Record; Cases Spike in Host Regions Appears to Relent
For the second week in a row, the National Nuclear Security Administration broke its record for new confirmed COVID-19 cases in a week, reflecting the disease’s rapid spread among the general population. Nationally, the U.S. is setting new daily case records almost daily, according to data tracked by the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. At the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) labs, plants and sites this week, federal employees and contractors combined for 309 new cases, with 184 recoveries making for 125 active cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The NNSA has cumulatively tracked 2,277 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the first confirmed U.S. case in January.… |
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Compromise NDAA Also a Compromise on DOE, Pentagon Control Over Civilian Nuke Budget
A version of the fiery interagency and inter-branch tug of war that produced this year’s controversial civilian nuclear weapons budget would be essentially legalized, if a compromise 2021 defense authorization bill unveiled Thursday becomes law. The unified 2021 National Defense… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
Perma-Fix Calls Hanford Watchdog Report Misleading
An environmental advocacy group’s report that questions safety compliance at the Perma-Fix Northwest waste treatment facility located just outside the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site is “very misleading,” a company spokesman said this week. The report last week by Hanford… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
Fluor Idaho Plans Response to Contest $580K Penalty for Drum Blast
Cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho expects to file a formal response this month to the Department of Energy’s proposed $580,700 civil penalty over an April 2018 accident at the Idaho National Laboratory where four drums of radioactive sludge overheated and blew… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
NRC Approves Three Mile Island Unit 2 License Transfer for Decommissioning
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday greenlighted the transfer of Three Mile Island’s Unit 2 license to EnergySolutions subsidiary TMI-2 Solutions from FirstEnergy Companies for decommissioning. Three Mile Island’s Unit 2, located 10 miles from Pennsylvania’s capital city of Harrisburg,… |
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