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BWXT asks NRC for lighter punishment, no fines, over fatal fire in Lynchburg
ROCKVILLE, MD. — BWX Technologies executives appeared here before Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff Thursday seeking leniency for a fatal — and according to the company, preventable — workplace accident two years ago in Lynchburg, Va. On the morning of June 19, 2020, a BWX Technologies employee died in a flash fire in the Lynchburg plant’s supercompactor facility. The fuel for the deadly fire, sparked by exposed wires, was 25 gallons of isopropyl alcohol squeezed from a pair of 55-gallon drums that the powerful compactor had crushed into small pucks for disposal. The drums contained solvent soaked rags: a type of waste that for years was banned from the supercompactor after… |
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With pandemic fading, DOE cleanup office suspends COVID updates
The Department of Energy has suspended centralized collection of weekly COVID-19 summary information from its labs, plants, and nuclear cleanup sites, a spokesperson with the agency’s Office of Environmental Management said Monday. “Most DOE locations are at a low COVID-19… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
Key movement on Savannah River contract talks expected within months
ARLINGTON, VA — Talks about the contractual future of the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, ongoing for years between the Office of Environmental Management and the semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration, could bear fruit within three months, the head… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
In NRC filing, Nevada Gov. Sisolak aims to slay ‘zombie-like’ Yucca Mountain once and for all
In the state’s latest attempt to kill the project for good, Nevada this week asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to end the long-idled licensing review of the U.S.’s only congressionally-designated storage facility for spent nuclear fuel. Gov. Steve Sisolak’s (D)… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
NNSA removed former Savannah River plutonium from Nevada site, Senator says
The National Nuclear Security Administration removed a tranche of weapon useable plutonium from the Nevada National Security Site after a roughly three-year layover, Nevada’s senior U.S. Senator said Friday. The nuclear weapons agency moved the plutonium to the test site… |
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