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NNSA Starts Review of Dilute-and-Dispose Plan for WIPP
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) this week revealed new details about its proposed dilute-and-dispose plan to eliminate 34 metric tons of weapon-usable plutonium — including that the agency is close to beginning a yearlong environmental review of its new approach. The agency will release its draft dilute-and-dispose supplemental environmental impact statement “in the very near future,” Paloma Richard, NEPA document manager in the NNSA’s Office of Material Disposition, told a National Academies panel in Washington, D.C. The agency plans to publish the final version of the document “towards the end” of 2020, after at least three public meeting, Richard said. The NNSA will host the meetings near the Los Alamos National Laboratory…		 Upcoming Events

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ETTP Cleanup Nears Completion in Fiscal 2020, Energy Dept. Says
Assistant Energy Secretary for Environmental Management Anne Marie White says 90% of remediation at the East Tennessee Technology Park at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee should be finished in the upcoming federal budget year. The ETTP site enriched uranium…
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EPA Recertification Sought for WIPP Through 2024
The Department of Energy is seeking another five-year certification from the Environmental Protection Agency for its Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. The WIPP Land Withdrawal Act requires EPA recertification every five years to ensure the site’s compliance with…
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Holtec Aims to Buy Another Retiring Nuclear Plant
By John Stang Holtec International said Tuesday it aims to buy a fourth nuclear power plant that nearing retirement, the Indian Point Energy Center in upstate New York. The announcement came less than a month after the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory…
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Congressionally Mandated Study Finds NNSA Pit Plan ‘Potentially Achievable’
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) plan to produce the fissile nuclear-weapon cores known as plutonium pits in two states is “potentially achievable,” according to a new study the agency publicized, but did not release, this week. Congress last year…
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