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Idaho Waste Treatment Unit Could Start Operation This Fall
The Department of Energy’s long-awaited Integrated Waste Treatment Unit at the Idaho National Laboratory could start operating in mid-fall, perhaps October, a Fluor Idaho executive told the online Waste Management Symposia Monday. The facility is now in the final weeks of an extended maintenance period that will precede a 50-day test run and eventual approval from the state and federal governments to start hot commissioning, Fluor Idaho President Fred Hughes and Joel Case, an assistant manager in DOE’s Idaho field office, said. That commissioning should start this fall will initially use a mixture of 10% radioactive waste and 90% simulant before advancing to a 50/50 mix, the officials said. That’s…		 Upcoming Events

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Plutonium pits and command and control are the top nuclear priorities for Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) in the next federal budget cycle, the head of the House Armed Services Committee said Friday. The Joe Biden administration has yet to roll…
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DOE Tapping Alternative Source to Bolster Uranium D&D Fund
Due to a shortfall in the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund, the Department of Energy is drawing upon other money in fiscal 2021 to help pay for cleanup of the government’s shuttered uranium enrichment plants. The Uranium Enrichment Decontamination…
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Nevada Dems Reintroduce Bill to Kill Yucca Mountain
Members of Nevada’s congressional delegation plan to reintroduce a bill that would put an end to the Yucca Mountain permanent nuclear waste repository, they said this week. The new legislation would be more or less the same as bills introduced…
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Watts Bar 2 Tritium Production Less Than Expected in 2021; Reactor Has ‘Degraded Steam Generator’
The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar Unit 2 reactor, which began producing tritium for nuclear weapons on Nov. 19, will irradiate a bit more than half as many tritium-producing rods as hoped in fiscal year 2021, the National Nuclear Security…
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