Vol. 8, No. 35 Feds still working on moving stranded Los Alamos waste out of Texas, DOE boss says
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
DOE interim storage news imminent, official says
News about the Department of Energy’s $26-million program to define consent-based siting of nuclear waste could drop next week, the agency’s top nuclear-energy official hinted Wednesday. DOE is putting together what it calls a consent-based siting consortia to help the agency decide not which spots could be suitable for a federally operated interim storage site […]
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Budget & Policy
Cardin hits Hanson on Hill about NRC morale
WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has a morale problem and needs to do something about it, a senator representing the state where agency headquarters is located said in a hearing Wednesday. “It needs to be first acknowledged that you have a problem,” Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) told Christopher Hanson, the NRC chair. “You then […]
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Defense & Military
Air Force initiates test firing of unarmed Minuteman III from Navy E-6 aircraft
The Air Force and Navy on Wednesday morning used an airborne control center to test-fire an unarmed Minuteman III missile, the services said. The test gave the services a look at the Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS), an aircraft that can launch intercontinental ballistic missiles if ground-based communication with nuclear silos is disabled. A joint […]