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Hanford, SRS Report New COVID-19 Cases; Sites Slowly Get Back to Work
The Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state has confirmed two more cases of COVID-19 among its workforce since last Friday, which would bring its total to 15. In addition, DOE’s Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina has confirmed its 36th case as of Thursday. Twenty-three of those workers have recovered and returned to work. The notices from Savannah River and Hanford were posted within the past 48 hours on the websites for the respective DOE complexes. One of the two Hanford employees has not been on-site since June 5 and the office building where the person worked has been disinfected, according to a website update. The other individual… |
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House Armed Services Panel Seeks Study on DOE Nuclear Cleanup Leadership Turnover
A House Armed Services Committee panel is worried the top executive post at the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management is becoming too much of a revolving door. The strategic forces subcommittee on Sunday released its 56-page mark for the… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
GAO Rejects Two Protests Against Energy Dept. Legacy Management Contract
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied two protests filed over RSI EnTech’s roughly $191 million contract to provide support services for the Energy Department’s Office of Legacy Management, which the challengers called unrealistically cheap. The Energy Department previously said the… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
Low-Level Waste to Be Shipped On to Texas After Railcar Fire
Tons of low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) held in a railcar that caught fire earlier this month in Illinois will continue on toward final disposal in Texas, officials said this week. "The contents of the railcars are being repackaged into intermodals… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
Nevada Dems Oppose Nuke Testing, as NDAA Adds Funds for Test-Resumption Prep
After it leaked to the media that the Senate’s annual defense authorization act for fiscal 2021 had a sliver of funding for nuclear-explosive test readiness, the five Democrats of Nevada’s congressional delegation released a letter to the White House condemning… |
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