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Major Yucca Bill Passes House on Bipartisan Vote; Heller Vows Swift Death in Senate
In a vote more than a decade in the making, the House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would smooth the way for the Department of Energy to build a permanent nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nye County, Nev. The Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2018 (H.R. 3053), shepherded through the House by Yucca crusader Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), cleared the lower chamber in a 340- 72 vote, with 119 Democrats and all but five Republicans supporting the measure. Sixteen lawmakers, an even mix of Democrats and Republicans, sat out the vote. By a margin almost as large, 332-80, House members shot down a proposed…		 Upcoming Events

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DOE Plans Alternate Cost Analysis Method for Hanford Services RFP
The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management plans to try a newly minted alternate method to analyze costs when it issues the final request for proposals (RFP) for the potential $4 billion Hanford Mission Essential Services Contract (HMESC) later this…
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Parsons' New SRS Waste Plant Baseline to Address Schedule, Work Concerns
A new project baseline for the Savannah River Site’s Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) is expected in the next few months, according to the Department of Energy and contractor Parsons. The new baseline, which DOE requested in a March 7 notice of…
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House Appropriations Subcommittee Passes 2019 Energy Bill; Full Committee Markup Wednesday
The House Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee on Monday approved a $44.7-billion energy funding bill for fiscal 2019, including extra money for the planned Yucca Mountain radioactive waste disposal repository in Nevada. A full committee markup is scheduled for…
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DOE to Split Production of Warhead Cores Between New Mexico and South Carolina
The Department of Energy said Thursday it will produce nuclear-warhead cores for the ongoing 30-year, $1 trillion modernization of the U.S. nuclear arsenal at two sites instead of one, and will convert a major nonproliferation facility into a weapons plant…
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