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NRC to stake out position on using decommissioning funds for equipment replacement
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission planned next week to formally declare its position on a major industry wish-list item: paying for maintenance of nuclear power plants with funds that are supposed to be reserved for tearing the plants down. During the virtual meeting scheduled for April 13, officials with the NRC’s Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards planned to “[n]otify stakeholders of the NRC’s position on the use of the decommissioning trust fund during operations for major radioactive components disposal.” The virtual meeting was scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time and run until 12 p.m. Eastern time. The NRC officials planned to take questions. Those interested in attending…		 Upcoming Events

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Hanford medical provider sold, HPM confirms
HPM Corp., the Kennewick, Wash.,-based company with a $152-million Department of Energy contract to provide employee medical services at the Hanford Site in Washington state is being sold to California-based WorkCare, the parties confirmed Wednesday. The Tri-City Herald newspaper reported…
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Retooled Capito bill has nuke liability-cap extension, DOE waste reporting, NRC reforms
A bipartisan group of 10 senators, led by Sen. Shelley Capito (R-WVa.), on Monday published the text of a nuclear policy bill that among other things would extend a cap on industry liability for catastrophic nuclear accidents. The bill would…
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NNSA Administrator wants “to scream from the mountaintop’ no future nuke testing
Though the National Nuclear Security Administration plans to dramatically ramp up plutonium pit production around the time a key arms control treaty expires in 2026, there are no plans to test fire any weapons, agency Administrator Jill Hruby said Monday…
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