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Bechtel’s Salado formally takes control of WIPP
Effective Saturday Feb. 4, Bechtel’s Salado Isolation Mining Contractors took over operation of the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. Salado Isolation Mining Contractors (SIMCO), which also includes New Mexico-based subcontractor Los Alamos Technical Associates, said in a Friday evening press release it was about to officially take over as prime contractor from Amentum-led Nuclear Waste Partnership. The new contractor got the green light at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) after DOE accepted the company’s ‘Declaration of Readiness’ for operations, which ends the transition period that began in November. This included “onboarding” 1,100 employees, most of them coming from the incumbent, as well as doing…		 Upcoming Events

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Workers at Pilgrim decom site exposed to ‘unplanned’ rad dose, NRC says in violation notice
A recent inspection at a shuttered Massachusetts nuclear power plant revealed that multiple contract workers at the site were inadvertently exposed to radiation during decommissioning work, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a letter to the company in charge of…
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N3B Los Alamos planning to cut radioactive metal pipes down to size
The Department of Energy’s legacy cleanup contractor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico should finish its “readiness assessment” by the end of March for slicing up corrugated metal pipes, a spokesperson said Thursday. After that, a required…
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NRC commissioner says Holtec must start ‘from scratch,’ to power up Palisades; Holtec disagrees
ROCKVILLE, MD. — A company seeking federal funds to restart a shuttered Michigan nuclear power plant is in for a heavy lift, one of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s newest members said during an exclusive interview this week. “When you have…
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Longtime government hands leading NNSA takeover of Savannah River
Two long standing government bosses, Jeffrey Allison and Randall Hendrickson, lead a joint team working out details of transferring responsibility for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina to the agency’s nuclear weapons branch from the nuclear…
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