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DOE Cleanup Chief Hopes to Move Past ‘Plateau,’ Focus on Completion
HENDERSON, Nev. -- The head of the Energy Department’s nuclear cleanup office fears remediation efforts have reached a “plateau” and need a push to advance toward closure of remaining sites. Toward that, the office is developing strategic plans both for its full operations and for specific properties over the coming decade. “The analogy that comes to mind is losing weight,” Assistant Energy Secretary for Environmental Management Anne Marie White said Tuesday during the keynote speech at the ExchangeMonitor’s RadWaste Summit. “It comes off quick in the beginning and then you hit a plateau.” Established in 1989, the Office of Environmental Management has completed remediation of more than 90 DOE properties… |
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Major Players Participate in Industry Discussion on Hanford Plateau Contract
More than 40 companies signed up to attend an industry session last month to learn more about a contract for further cleanup of the Central Plateau at the Hanford Site in Washington state. There were more 90 registered participants representing… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
Contractors, DOE Hope 2019 Funding Doesn’t Get Derailed
HENDERSON, Nev. -- Department of Energy officials and industry executives expressed hope Wednesday that no last-minute snags hold up passage of a fiscal 2019 budget with healthy funding for the agency’s nuclear weapons and cleanup operations. “Who wants to do… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
Compromise Energy Budget Likely to Zero Out Yucca Mountain, Insiders Say
HENDERSON, Nev. -- There is little chance the appropriations bill covering the Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission will provide any funding in fiscal 2019 for licensing the long-planned Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository in Nevada, issue observers said Wednesday.… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
Top HASC Dem Says U.S. Wants to Buy Too Many New ICBMs
The United States does not need as many intercontinental ballistic missiles as the Air Force plans to build, and Congress should take another look at a low-yield warhead lawmakers just approved, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee… |
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