Vol. 6, No. 22 DOE to Clarify Definition of End State Contracting Model in 2021
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE Lays Out Ambitious 10-Year Goals for Nuclear Cleanup
Within 10 years, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management hopes to have its vitrification plant humming at the Hanford Site in Washington state, with 40% of the tanks closed at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and also be about done with legacy cleanup at the Moab Site in Utah as well […]
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Budget & Policy
HASC Chair Wants ‘More Conservative’ Approach With Defense, Nuclear Spending
The chair of the House Armed Services Committee quoted chapter-and-verse from his bible of nuclear weapon policies in a Tuesday chat with the D.C.-based Reagan Institute, during which he advocated for trimming the defense budget by preventing particular crises rather than gearing up to win an all-out war. “I think that we can have a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Six More Test Positive at Hanford So Far This Week
Managers at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state have confirmed six more positive cases of COVID-19 since Saturday. The latest five were reported Tuesday in a note posted to a DOE website run by a Leidos-led Hanford support contractor. New cases at the former plutonium production complex have run in the low- […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Consistent Dry Storage Safety Standards Still Needed, Industry Tells NRC
There are “significant opportunities” for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to apply industry recommendations to its current approach to the safe dry storage of spent nuclear fuel, a trade group representative said at an agency workshop Tuesday. “It’s our intent to use and consider risk principles in assessing safety margins for dry storage, for the uniform […]