Cleanup & Remediation

Federal judge declines to certify class action in COVID suit against UCOR

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A federal district judge in East Tennessee ruled this week that employees fired after refusing COVID-19 vaccinations by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site cleanup prime, cannot pursue their litigation as a class action suit.
“Given the number of individualized…

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Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

Organizational ‘culture’ challenges remain at DNFSB, Inspector General finds

A worker standing near a row of barrels marked with radioactive warning symbols in an industrial facility.

DOE takes comment on disposing of calcine storage bins as low-level waste

The interior of an industrial furnace used for melting glass at high temperatures.

Hanford to start testing second low-activity-waste melter in December

Two professionals reviewing and signing a contract document together in an office setting.

North Wind appoints Driggs as new CEO

A lawyer with a gavel mediating a signed agreement between two parties in a law office.

NRDC curbs its nuclear watchdog role amid reported belt-tightening

A lawyer with a gavel mediating a signed agreement between two parties in a law office.

Man arrested in South Carolina after after-hours breach of Oconee nuclear plant grounds

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

Federal judge in Idaho considers whether to toss county suit over INL waste storage

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

Hundreds of feral hogs killed; eaten by vultures at Savannah River Site

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

Hawley wants EPA urgency on West Lake Landfill cleanup

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

Amentum manager, 55, dies in auto accident in Washington state

A tunnel boring machine operating inside an underground rock-salt mine tunnel.

Wrap Up: Cleanup office explores AI; WIPP’s new permit takes effect; GAO planning H Canyon report; Centrus delivers first HALEU

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