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NRC commissioners could move to take control of post-COVID telework policy by Halloween
Most Nuclear Regulatory Commission commissioners are open to taking control of the agency’s telework rules, teeing up yet another shift in remote-work policy at an agency that has struggled to settle on one. The issue is now “a voting matter” for the commissioners, who “agreed that October 31 was the date in order to prompt a timely decision on this,” NRC Chairman Chris Hanson said in a Sept. 12 all-hands meeting, according to an official transcript of the gathering at commission headquarters in Rockville, Md. For employees paid every two weeks, NRC allows the equivalent of four days of remote work a week, up from three days a week proposed… |
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New Mexico nuclear skeptics turn attention to enforcing WIPP permit fine print
A citizens group involved with talks that led to a new draft operating permit for the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., plans to keep an eye on how the New Mexico Environment Department enforces the… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
Plutonium down-blending picks up at Savannah River Site, DOE says
The Department of Energy has so far delivered 12 shipments of down blended plutonium to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, according to a public waste database. The most recent… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
Defense policy bill with nuclear energy reforms headed to final negotiations on Hill
The annual must-pass defense policy bill that sets spending limits for nationals ecurity programs is headed for its final debate in Congress after the House this week voted for a conference with the Senate. But in a twist this year,… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
Possible suitors for Pantex M&O pact emerge
Jacobs Solutions, Huntington Ingalls, BWX Technologies and others are among those seeking the National Nuclear Security Administration’s decade-spanning, $30-billion contract to manage the agency’s nuclear-weapons service center in Texas. Pantex and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn.,… |
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