Vol. 6, No. 62

Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Passes Senate, Nuke Plant Credits Intact

A $1-trillion infrastructure bill with tax credits for financially-struggling nuclear power plants passed the Senate on a widely bipartisan vote Tuesday.  The infrastructure package cleared the Senate in 69-30 and now heads to the House, whose members were scheduled to return to Washington on Aug. 23 to vote on the measure. If the bill becomes […]
  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    Idaho Weighs DOE Request on Deadline Extension for IWTU

    The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality is taking comments between now and Sept. 1 on its conditional approval of a Department of Energy request to push the startup of the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit to September 2022. In March, an executive with contractor Fluor Idaho told the Waste Management Symposia that the site might start […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    Carlsbad Tech Services Handover Should be Complete Sept. 1

    Navarro Research & Engineering should take over Sept. 1 as the new Technical Assistance contractor at the Department of Energy’s Carlsbad Field Office in New Mexico, an agency spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. The Oak Ridge, Tenn.,-based company, which beat out five other bidders for the potential five-year, $72-million small business set-aside, received its notice to proceed […]

  • Advanced Nuclear & SMRs

    Orano Unveils New Leadership Team for DOE Cleanup, Advanced Nuclear

    Bethesda, Md.,-based Orano has a new management team and several new board of directors for its Federal Services Business unit that does business with the Department of Energy, the company said early Wednesday. Orano Federal Services President Dorothy Davidson said in a press release that the new management team will include: Joe Faldowskim, chief operations […]

  • National Laboratories

    Personnel: Wallin Moving Up at Livermore, Harrell Moving Out at Sandia

    Bradley Wallin will lead Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s nuclear weapons programs, settling a succession that began when Kim Budil was promoted to lab director earlier this year, the design lab announced Monday. Separately, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced that Jeff Harrell, the federal manager for the agency’s Sandia Field Office, retired in July. […]

  • Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad

    Air Force Launched Midnight-Hour Minuteman III Test With JTA

    The Air Force on Wednesday morning launched a non-nuclear Minuteman III missile, carrying what the service called a “high-fidelity joint test assembly,” from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Air Force announced the early-morning launch in a press release. Supporting the test launch from the west coast were Air Force personnel from the 341st […]

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