Vol. 8, No. 108 West Valley cleanup draft RFP feedback due in early October
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Recommissioning & Restarts
Holtec says Palisades could restart in August 2025; NRC pushback on environmental review
The shuttered Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan could restart in about two years, plant owner Holtec International told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a public meeting Tuesday. The date will depend among other things on whether Holtec, Jupiter, Fla., can get a billion-dollar loan from the Department of Energy, but it may also depend […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Not so fast, EPA tells DOE, Hanford contractor on 324 cleanup plans
The Environmental Protection Agency said in a recent letter it has not agreed to change cleanup plans for Building 324 and the contaminated soil under it at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “does not concur on any activities towards placing the 324 Building in a […]
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National Laboratories
Los Alamos is earthquake-sound, seismic analysis shows
Los Alamos National Laboratory’s PF-4 Plutonium Processing Facility is structurally sound enough to withstand potential seismic events, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board found in a recent study of the building. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) has worked with the Department of Energy on the seismic safety of PF-4 and Los Alamos since […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Top DOE cleanup boss White travels to Japan, speaks to Fukushima conference
William “Ike” White, senior adviser and acting head of the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, spoke Monday to an international forum in Japan on Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the nuclear cleanup office said Tuesday. The 7th annual international forum on Fukushima cleanup sponsored by Japan’s Nuclear Damage Compensation and […]