Vol. 7, No. 55

Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle

House to vote Friday on big spending bill with nuclear tax credit, HALEU funding

The House was scheduled to vote Friday on a $370 billion energy, climate and tax bill that included tax credits for nuclear power plants, a budget increase for DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy and more than half a billion dollars for advanced nuclear reactor fuel. A schedule maintained by the office of House Majority Leader […]
  • Cleanup & Remediation

    APTIM-North Wind construction contract at Oak Ridge could be extended

    An APTIM-North Wind joint venture that ran into bad luck and bedrock while building the Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee may have its contract extended beyond the current Dec. 5 expiration, a Department of Energy spokesperson said recently. “The Mercury Treatment Facility is scheduled to be operational in […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    New Mexico group presses for a WIPP end date, more transparency

    A New Mexico citizens group that is a frequent critic of the Department of Energy wants a firm end date for closure of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant  near Carlsbad, N.M., and greater transparency surrounding the federal transuranic waste program. In addition, Don Hancock, nuclear waste program director at Southwest Research and Information Center, told […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    SRS not dropping high COVID precautions yet

    The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina will maintain precautions for “high” community rates for transmission of COVID-19, a DOE spokesperson said Monday. Savannah River DOE managers made the decision after learning the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control failed to update its COVID case numbers last week with the […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    This week

    Here are some events related to defense and civilian nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking this week August 01-26 – United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. 10th Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Review Conference. United Nations Headquarters, New York. 08: Second quarter earnings call, BWX Technologies,  5:00 p.m. EDT with a webcast […]

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