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NRC Commissioner Won’t Recuse Himself from Yucca License Review
Newly installed Nuclear Regulatory Commission member David Wright has rejected Nevada’s request that he recuse himself from any decision on licensing a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in the state. Wright pushed back against the state’s contention that his actions and comments in recent years showed he supported building the disposal facility in Nevada and could not be impartial in ruling on the Department of Energy’s license application. In his 15-page decision, the former energy consultant said he had “carefully considered” Nevada’s motion, but found no basis to disqualify himself. “I decline to recuse myself from the Yucca Mountain licensing proceeding,” Wright wrote in the introduction to his decision,…		 Upcoming Events

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Washington State Issues First Operational Permit for WTP
The Washington state Department of Ecology has issued an operating permit for the analytical laboratory at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site. This permit, issued in the spring, is the state agency's…
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New Mexico Has Questions on Proposed WIPP Waste Counting Change
The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) wants to know more about the Energy Department’s proposal to change the way it counts the volume of transuranic waste emplaced at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. In a June 27 letter, called a…
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U.K. Nuclear Agency to Take Over Magnox Cleanup in 2019
The United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority said Monday it will next year formally take over management of the now privately operated contractor for cleanup of the nation’s retired Magnox reactors. The government announced in March 2017 that it would cancel…
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Triad Appears to Lock Up Los Alamos Contract, With No Protests Filed
Triad National Security appears set to take over the Los Alamos National Laboratory this fall, after no one protested the National Nuclear Security Administration’s June 8 award of its potentially 10-year management contract. Triad’s three main partners are Battelle Memorial Institute,…
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