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EPA, Washington State Satisfied With Hanford Groundwater Sampling During Pandemic
Even with the Department of Energy missing its groundwater sampling targets for 2020, officials with both the Washington state Department of Ecology and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are satisfied with catchup efforts, officials said Friday. “Under the circumstances, we think what USDOE doing is OK,” Washington Ecology spokesman Randy Bradbury said in an email, citing information from a state hydrologist. “They are going to miss only a small percentage of the samples and some of the samples,” due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he said. The Department of Energy is doing enough sampling to meet Resource Conservation and Recovery Act standards for the year, Bradbury said. The spokesman said DOE… |
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City of Oak Ridge Riled Over NNSA’s Pre-Holiday Uranium Contract Announcement
Local officials with the City of Oak Ridge slammed the National Nuclear Security Administration’s decision to shift some national security work to BWX Technologies Subsidiary Nuclear Fuel Services, Erwin, Tenn., from the Y-12 National Security Complex. The semi-autonomous Department of… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
Amid ‘COVID-19 Fatigue,’ New Cases Nearly Double; Reported Death at WIPP
As is the case nationally, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take a heavy toll on the 16 nuclear cleanup properties overseen by the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, including a death at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant that,… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
Pro-Nuclear Bill Senate Bill Has Reporting Requirement for Waste Inventory
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a bill that would require the Department of Energy secretary to present an annual report on the U.S. inventory of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. Starting in January 2022, the American… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
Nuke Abolition Losing Message on Election Day, House Armed Services Chair Tells Disarmament Advocates
The chair of the House Armed Services Committee had bitter medicine in a big spoon for disarmament advocates Wednesday: getting rid of nuclear weapons is a losing message that may have cost Democrats a chance to slow down procurement of… |
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