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FEATURED UNLOCKED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
No Future for Yucca Mountain in Senate, Heller Says
The U.S. Senate will continue to reject the Department of Energy’s requests for funding to resume work on the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) told Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Wednesday. In a tense exchange during a Senate commerce committee hearing on national infrastructure, Heller asked Perry to confirm he had a role in DOE’s $120 million request in both the 2018 and 2019 fiscal years to pay for licensing Yucca Mountain. Perry affirmed that, as energy secretary, he did. Senate appropriators stripped out the Yucca funding in their fiscal 2018 DOE funding bill, which never got a floor vote for the budget… |
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DOE Reviews Finds Additional Quality Assurance Issues at Hanford Waste Plant
A Department of Energy review has found more quality assurance issues at the Waste Treatment Plant being built at the Hanford Site in Washington state. Quality records “needed to demonstrate that the important-to-safety structural steel could perform its safety function… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
DOE Seeking Revisions to SRS Liquid Waste Proposals; Details Within 30 Days
The U.S. Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management is promising by to soon spell out steps for “final” revisions to bid proposals for the liquid waste management contract at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. At least one industry… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
Omnibus Budget Coming, but Yucca Funding Unlikely, Simpson Says
WASHINGTON — The head House appropriator for the Department of Energy still does not see much hope for any funding for the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in the 2018 spending bill that could be published Monday. The energy… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
Decision on Moving Pit Production Due in Early May, NNSA Chief Says
WASHINGTON — The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will decide in early May whether it wants to build nuclear-warhead cores known as plutonium pits at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., the agency’s new administrator said here Wednesday in… |
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