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Budget Cuts Not Happening for DOE Cleanup: House Appropriators
House appropriators told the head of the Energy Department's nuclear cleanup office on Wednesday that the budget cut proposed for fiscal 2021 will not stand, especially not at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The script is familiar by now, written at the beginning of the Donald Trump administration’s first term and played out already this year in a series of hearings with Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette: Appropriations committees in both chambers of Congress are unhappy that DOE's Office of Environmental Management (EM) must tighten its belt as the National Nuclear Security Administration ramps up spending on U.S. nuclear-weapons modernization. “[M]y work here and the work of my colleagues ...…		 Upcoming Events

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Hanford Building Disinfected; DOE Limits Travel to ‘Mission-Critical’ Trips
An office building used by one of the main contractors for the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state has been disinfected after an employee was tested for the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), according to a weekend posting…
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Tank Waste Facilities in Idaho, South Carolina to Begin Operations This Year
PHOENIX — By the end of 2020, the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management expects to start operation of facilities in Idaho and South Carolina that will convert radioactive tank waste into stable forms for eventual disposal, agency officials said…
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NRC Might Merge Two Waste Disposal Rulemakings
PHOENIX – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering merging two long-running efforts to update federal regulations on disposal of radioactive waste, a senior official said here Monday. Agency staff is currently determining the paths forward for both a potential rulemaking…
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Planned Los Alamos Pit Plant Could Surge to 80 a Year, NNSA Says
Confirming what appeared intuitively obvious, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said Tuesday the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico will have to manufacture 80 nuclear-weapon cores a year by itself in 2030, if a planned facility at the Savannah…
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