PHOENIX —A trio of managers from branches of the Department of Energy at the Idaho National Laboratory planned to travel to Washington, D.C., later this month to brief congressional staffers on sitewide spent nuclear fuel management at the lab.
Connie Flohr, who is retiring from DOE next month, said at the Waste Management Symposia conference she will be part of a team to brief Senate and House of Representatives staff March 28 on a new sitewide waste spent fuel management plan.
Flohr now holds the title of special adviser for the Idaho Cleanup Project after passing the DOE cleanup manager post to her former deputy Mark Brown, last week.
Flohr will be accompanied by DOE Office of Nuclear Energy manager at Idaho, Lance Lacroix, and Gil Pratt, a manager for the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program within DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration. All three were part of an Idaho National Laboratory panel discussion Wednesday at the conference.
Flohr said greater coordination between DOE entities in Idaho has been sought by congressional appropriators. Flohr also said the DOE’s Office of Environmental Management’s ongoing cleanup of old naval reactor facilities at the lab is an example of inter-office cooperation. The spent fuel plan referenced by Flohr is not yet available for public release, a DOE spokesperson said.
Demolition and decommissioning of S1W and A1W prototype nuclear submarine reactors began in August 2022
