Vol. 9, No. 61 Huff to leave Department of Energy May 3
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP shipments dip from March 2023 as outage shortens availability
The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, coming out of a maintenance outage, received 23 shipments of transuranic waste during the last half of March, according to online data. Because of the extended maintenance outage, which kept the underground salt mine offline all of February, shipment only resumed March 15. The […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Boston Government hires strategy officer from Leidos
Tennessee-based Boston Government Services said Monday it has hired a Leidos executive, Darrell Graddy, as chief strategy officer. Graddy spent eight years in Leidos involved in business development and project management and also spent 30 years in management roles at Lockheed Martin, Boston Government Services said in the press release. According to the release, Graddy […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Former DOE cleanup boss to review Los Alamos hexavalent chromium project
Inés Triay, one-time head of the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup branch, will discuss the hexavalent chromium plume at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico this week. Triay, currently interim dean of the College of Engineering and Computing at Florida International University, is leading an expert review team on the longstanding chromium plume […]
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International
Canadian municipality close to approving ballot question about deep geologic repository
A Canadian municipality this week planned another step towards letting its citizens choose whether to host a deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel. On Tuesday, the seven-member Council of the Corporation of the Municipality of South Bruce was scheduled to vote on the last procedural step needed to approve a ballot question about the […]