Delivery dates for next round of nukes get hazier in latest annual NNSA progress report
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Recommissioning & Restarts
NRC board to hear enviros’ case for renewing Diablo Canyon fuel storage license
A Nuclear Regulatory Commission board in May plans to decide whether a citizen’s group can contest a utility’s plan to renew a license for storing the spent fuel of California’s last nuclear power plant, the commission said Monday. An NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board planned to hear arguments on May 24 from the San […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Second Hanford-area contractor busted for COVID loan fraud
An indictment was filed last Thursday against a Hanford subcontractor accused of stealing $1.313 million in COVID relief money from the federal government. Filed in U.S. District Court in Eastern Washington, the indictment charged Wilson Stevenson III, 44, owner of BNL Technical Services, with 11 counts of fraud. The fraud charges carry maximum sentences of […]
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP catches long-running mislabeling of small tranche of waste from Los Alamos
The Los Alamos National Laboratory over 16 years sent almost 50 containers of incorrectly labeled radioactive waste to the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the site’s prime contractor recently told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The lab assigned the containers codes that indicated they should have been able to generate less combustible hydrogen during […]