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BWXT team appeals court order blocking start of contested Hanford liquid-waste contract
The winner of a decade-long, $45-billion liquid-waste cleanup contract at the Hanford Site on Tuesday appealed a court order that blocked work on the deal at the behest of a losing bidder. Hanford Tank Waste Operations and Closure asked the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to overturn a June decision by the Court of Federal Claims that enjoined DOE from turning the Hanford Site’s liquid waste program in Washington state over to the new team, led by BWX Technologies with partners Amentum and Fluor. The appeals court had not docketed the winner’s case on Wednesday evening. Most of the proceedings in the Atkins team’s lawsuit have been sealed,…
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Department of Labor to host illness-compensation seminar for current, former nuclear weapons workers
The Department of Labor will host an informational session next week in Ohio for current and former nuclear weapons workers who may qualify for federal financial compensation for on-the-job illnesses, the agency said Tuesday. Labor will host the seven-hour session…
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Hanford practices early steps of waste solidification at treatment plant
Workers at the Hanford Site in Washington state last week practiced three early steps of solidifying liquid radioactive waste inside glass, a site contractor said Tuesday in a press release. Personnel poured glass beads called frit into a heated melter…
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Holtec headed to NRC headquarters for open meeting about proposed Palisades restart
Holtec International planned to meet with Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff Aug. 29 to discuss what the company says is the biggest regulatory hurdle to restarting the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station. The commission posted a notice of the meeting online Tuesday. Executives with…
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Automatically shut down because of low steam, Watts Bar reactor back up at 100 percent
The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 2 automatically shut down for a little less than a day-and-a-half last week because of low steam levels, the authority confirmed this week. The quasi governmental company confirmed the outage to…
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