Vol. 8, No. 93

Cleanup & Remediation

Union approves Portsmouth labor extension prior to new remediation contractor

Members of United Steelworkers Local 1-689 employed in cleanup at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio voted Monday to extend their existing collective bargaining deal with Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth until March, a union official said. The extension includes a retroactive 2% raise, a $1,500 cash bonus and buys time until a new Amentum-led team […]
  • Commercial Low-Level Waste

    Waste Control Specialists to brief compact members about planned changes to west Texas site

    Waste Control Specialists was expected to provide an update next week in Andrews, Texas, about the company’s efforts to expand its existing low-level waste disposal site there, a tri-state waste-disposal commission announced Wednesday. The update from Waste Control Specialists, which operates a state-owned low-level waste disposal site at its Andrews County property, was scheduled as […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    WIPP receives 39 shipments in July; continues to beat 2022 pace

    The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico received 39 shipments of transuranic waste during July and is on pace for its biggest year since an accidental underground radiation release in 2014, according to a Department of Energy website. Along with 31 shipments from Idaho National Laboratory, there were five from the Los Alamos National […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    New trade group report details proposed changes to EPA standards for geologic repositories

    This week, a trade group for nuclear professionals released a 76-page report that recommends changes to the Environmental Protection Agency’s standards for nuclear-waste repositories.  Broadly, the new report from the Illinois-based American Nuclear Society (ANS) aims to make the standards set for the failed Yucca Mountain deep-geologic repository in Nevada the standard for all U.S. […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    NNSA’s Rose talks nuclear security with Asian allies

    Frank Rose, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s principal deputy administrator, recently spent a week in East Asia where he visited counterparts in Japan and South Korea. The trip, from July 18 to July 24 “aimed to strengthen bilateral ties, regional nuclear security, and enable discussions of how best to address challenges in the evolving geopolitical […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    New Mexico unveils new permit for DOE’s WIPP, sets hearing Sept. 22

    The New Mexico Environment Department plans a hybrid public meeting next month on the proposed new 10-year hazardous waste permit for the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad. The meeting, slated to start at 5 p.m. Mountain Time on Sept. 22, will be conducted both online via Webex and in-person at locations […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Ex-energy sec Brouillette to head electric company trade group

    Dan Brouillette, the second secretary of energy of the Donald Trump administration, will become president and CEO of the Edison Electric Institute, effective Oct. 1, the trade group for investor-owned electric companies said Wednesday. Edison Electric Institute (EEI) Chair Pedro Pizarro made the announcement in a press release, about five months after longtime EEI head […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    N.M. college receives $11.7M for WIPP training

    Southeast New Mexico College in Carlsbad is receiving $11.7 million in Department of Energy grant money over five years to develop employee training programs for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the agency said Monday. The college will collaborate with DOE and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), to provide training and education for current and […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Publication Notice

    Weapons Complex Morning Briefing will be published on Tuesday and Thursday only during the weeks of Aug. 14, 2023 and Aug. 23, 2023, as part of the Exchange Monitor’s annual August recess.

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