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COVID-19 Could Delay Savannah River Site Waste Facility Startup
The Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina might have to revisit the schedule for operation of the Salt Waste Processing Facility due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a spokesperson said Thursday. Eight cases of infection by the novel coronavirus 2019 have been confirmed at Savannah River. That is more than half of the 14 known cases across the DOE Office of Environmental Management complex of 16 nuclear cleanup sites, a federal source said Friday. That includes the first confirmed case at the Hanford Site in Washington state. Less than two months ago, before the term “COVID-19” became fully imprinted in the public lexicon, Energy Department contractor Parsons expected by…		 Upcoming Events

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DOE Nuclear Cleanup Office Takes Lead on Newly Discovered Waste Near LANL
The Energy Department assured the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) on Thursday it would oversee remediation of recently discovered radioactive waste on former federal land near the site of a planned housing complex in Los Alamos County. Top brass for…
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Pandemic Could Mean Another Delay in Hanford Tank Contract
With the Energy Department temporarily doing only minimal physical work at the Hanford Site in Washington state due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is apt to further delay award of a potential 10-year, $15 billion contract for tank waste management…
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Rad-Waste Companies Feeling the Pinch During Pandemic
Companies in the radioactive waste processing and disposal industry acknowledged this week they are feeling the pinch from the COVID-19 pandemic, but emphasized that they remain fully open for business. At least one industry mainstay confirmed that it has sought…
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Los Alamos, Livermore Want to Bring More Workers Back On Site
With the United States probing the possibility of thawing the social freeze from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories plan to start slowly ramping up on-site work this month. Los Alamos has…
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