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Texas Legislature Pulls “Misleading” High Level Waste Ban From Floor in Parliamentary Fracas
A bill that would have banned storage of high level waste in Texas was yanked ahead of a scheduled floor vote in the state’s House of Representatives for being “substantially and materially misleading,” the state speaker of the House said. H.B. 2692, proposed in March by state Rep. Brooks Landgraf (R), got tossed back into committee not because of its proposal to ban high level waste storage, but because of apparent confusion over the changes it would have made to low-level waste-storage fees — both of which have ramifications for disposal site operator Waste Control Specialists (WCS) in Andrews County, Texas, part of Landgraf’s district. On Wednesday afternoon, a procedural…		 Upcoming Events

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Wilson Appears Ahead of Budget Hearings to Seek Increase for SRS Pit Budget
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), whose district includes the Savannah River Site, on Monday asked the House Appropriations Committee to provide a total of $695 million in fiscal year 2022 for plutonium pit production at the Aiken, S.C. site: some $255…
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BWXT Confirms Pursuit of Big DOE Management Pacts on Earnings Call
BWX Technologies is among the companies in the hunt for high-dollar Department of Energy contracts, president and CEO Rex Geveden said in a conference call this week with financial analysts. “We now have four large DOE proposals submitted and anticipate…
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Next Steps on Interim Storage Months Away, Granholm Says
The Department of Energy is working on a “strategic approach” for developing a federal interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, the Secretary of Energy told members of Congress this week. Jennifer Granholm, testifying Thursday on DOE’s 2022 budget request…
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Indy Evaluation of Los Alamos Pit Plant’s Costs Mostly Match Program Team’s Estimate
A program-independent review found the cost-floor for building the National Nuclear Security Administration’s planned, multibillion-dollar pit factory at the Los Alamos National Laboratory will be slightly higher than the official estimate, though the ceiling might be a little lower. The…
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