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Startup of Hanford vit plant could slip into 2024, budget official says
The Hanford Site in Washington may not be able to make its first canister of glass from low-level radioactive tank waste until 2024, a year later than the Department of Energy hoped, an agency official said Thursday at a public meeting in New Orleans. “We originally had hoped to have hot commission by December” of 2023, for the Direct Feed Low Activity Waste facility at the Waste Immobilization and Treatment Plant, Steve Trischman, head of budget and planning for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, told members of DOE’s Environmental Management Advisory Board during a webcast meeting. “It looks like that may move a little bit into [20]24.”  Trischman’s remark is…		 Upcoming Events

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DOE spent fuel chief Brinton charged with felony theft in Minnesota
The state of Minnesota has charged the Department of Energy’s recently-hired head of spent nuclear fuel management with felony theft, court documents show. According to a criminal complaint filed Oct. 27 in Minnesota’s 4th Judicial District Court, Sam Brinton, who…
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Idaho waste treatment unit inching toward radioactive ops
The long-delayed Integrated Waste Treatment Unit at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory should start heating up before New Year’s and begin its cleanup mission in January, state and federal agencies said Wednesday. The Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU),…
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RadWaste Monitor
Second round of federal nuclear credits opening ‘soon,’ Huff says
WASHINGTON — The head of the Department of Energy’s nuclear power office said this week that the agency was preparing to roll out its second round of bailouts for economically-troubled nuclear power plants. Applications for the next funding cycle of…
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Perfect storm of labor, material, pandemic drove delays to Uranium Processing Facility NNSA administrator says
Materials shortages and labor productivity drove a two-year delay to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s next factory for nuclear-weapon secondary stages, the head of agency said Thursday. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the difficulties it created sourcing…
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