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Grout use at Hanford intertwined with outcome of ‘holistic talks,’ officials say
Washington state regulators probably will not allow the Department of Energy to solidify the Hanford Site’s liquid tank waste with grout-like cement until and unless the parties agree to permit disposal methods for liquid waste other than immobilization in glass, officials told a National Academies of Sciences panel Thursday. “Ecology considers on-site grout disposal to be out of the question,” said Jay Decker, an engineer with Washington Ecology. There is, according to Decker, insufficient study into public environmental health and safety standards, when it comes to grouting — one of the methods DOE might choose to deal with liquid waste at Hanford that cannot be solidified by the planned Waste…		 Upcoming Events

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Weapons Complex Morning Briefing
IWTU timeline complicated by fits-and-starts, DOE says
While the Department of Energy is still gunning for a fall start of radiological operations, agency officials acknowledged this week they are not sure how long a final test run might take for the  Integrated Waste Treatment Unit at the…
Weapons Complex Monitor
NNSA’s FY23 budget request seeks no money for SLCM-N warhead, B83 alterations
The National Nuclear Security Administration seeks no funding for fiscal year 2023 for either a nuclear, sea-launched cruise-missile warhead or for previously planned alternations for the B83 gravity bomb, according to the agency’s full budget request for the year. The…
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Entergy unmoved by Michigan gov’s quest for Palisades nuke credits; shutdown proceeding
The company in charge of a Michigan nuclear plant scheduled to close this summer doesn’t have any plans to keep the facility running despite the state government’s aims to save it, a spokesperson said this week. Entergy, which currently owns…
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
NNSA makes early call to lock in Honeywell subsidiary to manage Sandia for five more years
Honeywell’s wholly owned subsidiary National Engineering and Technology Solutions of Sandia will be the prime contractor for the Sandia National Laboratories for another five years, the National Nuclear Security Administration announced this week. The semi-autonomous Department of Energy nuclear weapons…
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