Vol. 8, No. 13 Savannah River manager to take over NNSA Production Office at Pantex in May
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Commercial Decommissioning
Holtec happy to help study planned Pilgrim wastewater discharge; won’t fund inquiry
Holtec Decommissioning International will participate in but not pay for an independent study of discharging wastewater from the shuttered Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Massachusetts into Cape Cod bay, the company told the state’s junior U.S. senator Friday. “We believe your independent panel will confirm the scientific facts to inform the public,” the company wrote […]
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Contracts & Procurement
AECL seeks pre-qualified bidders to compete for new Canadian Nuclear Labs biz
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited is proceeding with previously-announced plans to seek bidders seeking to run Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, the federal Crown corporation said Friday. Canadian National Energy Alliance, an SNC-Lavalin-led team with Jacobs and Fluor as minority partners, currently runs daily operations of Canada’s national labs under a 10-year contract set to expire in […]
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Non-Proliferation
NNSA and Defense Department efforts to secure nuclear material overlap, GAO finds
Some parallel efforts by the National Nuclear Security Administration and Defense Department to secure nuclear materials around the globe may be redundant if their individual mission goals are not more clearly defined, the Government Accountability Office found in a new report. The GAO looked into 23 separate NNSA and DoD programs and found that “some […]
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International
Timeline for Sellafield silo slips due to equipment woes, U.K. agency says
With the exception of a couple of projects at Europe’s largest and most complex nuclear site, the United Kingdom’s short-term cleanup goals for radioactive waste cleanup remain largely on target, the country’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority said in its mid-2023 fiscal year report, published Friday. Timelines for certain cleanup projects at Sellafield Limited, a Nuclear Decommissioning […]