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Parties Anticipate Legal Fight Over Energy Dept. HLW Reinterpretation
A legal fight is considered likely over the Energy Department’s new interpretation of what material should be treated high-level radioactive waste, sources suggested this week. Not all waste resulting from reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel should be considered high-level, the DOE reaffirmed Wednesday. Going forward, the key question will be “how radioactive it is,” Undersecretary of Energy for Science Paul Dabbar told the House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus Wednesday evening in Washington, D.C. Under its new interpretation, DOE says some lower-risk reprocessing waste can be deemed non-HLW and be disposed of according to its radiological traits rather than its point of origin. That could speed up disposal of some waste, the…		 Upcoming Events

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House NDAA, Like House Appropriations Act, Would Cut NNSA, Fund EM in 2020
The House Armed Services Committee fell in line with their counterparts on the Appropriations Committee on Monday, proposing to authorize a 2020 defense-nuclear budget that nixes the Donald Trump administration’s proposal to cut legacy weapons cleanup to fund looming nuclear-weapon…
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Washington State Officials Pan Waste Policy
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee along with state Attorney General Bob Ferguson voiced their opposition Thursday to the Energy Department’s decision to reinterpret the definition of high-level radioactive waste at the Hanford Site and elsewhere in the weapons complex. Washington currently…
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Final Nuke Waste Strategy Could be Years Away, Observers Say
Despite another burst of activity in Congress, it could be years or even decades more before the United States settles on a final strategy for disposal of its growing stockpile of nuclear waste, according to issue watchers. Lawmakers on Capitol…
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HASC Subcommittee Moves To Constrict DOE Plans For Nuclear Weapon Cores
Democrats on the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee on Tuesday used their majority on the panel to kill a GOP amendment that would have kept the Department of Energy’s plan to produce plutonium pits in South Carolina off the…
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