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DOE, Nevada at Last Settle Up Over Unauthorized Waste Shipments From Y-12
In a long-awaited legal settlement over six years of mislabeled, radioactive waste shipments to Nevada, the Department of Energy agreed to tighten waste-inspection standards at nuclear weapon sites and overhaul its solid waste permit with the state by early next year, Carson City’s top environmental official said this week. DOE will also have to revise the Nevada National Security Site’s (NNSS) waste acceptance criteria to include the settlement’s prescribed “waste management improvements,” according to the text of the agreement provided Tuesday to Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor by the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP). The 55-page settlement, with its five appendices, aims to prevent the DOE from again shipping mislabeled radioactive…		 Upcoming Events

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New Mexico “Cannot Accept” Proposed Interim Storage Site, Lawmakers Tell Granholm
New Mexico is very unhappy about the possibility of a commercial interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel within its borders, a cadre of officials told the Secretary of Energy last week. The Land of Enchantment “has not and will…
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EPA Taking Second Look at Planned New Landfill for Oak Ridge
As part of President Joe Biden’s executive order to review policies issued by the Donald Trump White House, the Environmental Protection Agency is taking another look at its December 2020 approval of plans for a new landfill at the Department…
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Layoff of Oyster Creek Rad Techs Violates Union Deal, Labor Rep Says; Case in Arbitration
Planned layoffs at a shuttered New Jersey nuclear plant run afoul of a collective bargaining agreement, a union representative said this week amid ongoing arbitration talks about the future of some 40 unionized radiation protection technicians at the site. Holtec…
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NNSA Los Alamos Shipments to WIPP Resume
Shipments of transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant from National Nuclear Security Administration operations at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico were set to resume this week after being on hold since an ignition scare in…
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