Vol. 6, No. 80

Decommissioning

NRC Chair Torches Colleague’s Categorization of Decom Rule as ‘Laissez Faire’ Regulation

In an interview Tuesday with the Exchange Monitor, the chair of the The Nuclear Regulatory Commission hit back against another commissioner’s charges that a long-awaited decommissioning rulemaking proved the agency’s regulatory capture. “[O]ne of the things that’s getting out there in the aether is that somehow the agency’s taken on kind of a laissez-faire approach […]
  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    DOE Can Site Interim Storage Facility Without NWPA Update, NE-1 Says

    The Department of Energy cannot build an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel before building a permanent repository, but it can canvass potential host communities for an interim site, the agency’s top nuclear energy official said Tuesday. “Congress provided funding for DOE to move forward with establishing an interim storage program using its existing […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    Hinderstein Confirmed as NNSA Nuclear Nonproliferation Head

    The Senate on Tuesday unanimously confirmed Corey Hinderstein to be deputy administrator for defense nuclear nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Security Administration. A think-tanker with a previous detail to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) under her belt, Hinderstein was on the Senate’s executive calendar for 40 days after clearing the Senate Armed Services […]

  • Warhead & Weapons Development

    Telephone Arguments Planned in Lawsuit to Stop Hanford Vaccination Firings

    A federal judge in Eastern Washington will hear oral arguments by telephone Dec. 17 on whether to issue a temporary restraining order that would put the brakes on potential firings by Department of Energy contractors of guards and other employees at the Hanford Site who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccination. U.S. District Judge Thomas […]

  • National Laboratories

    Oak Ridge Lab Plaintiffs Receive Extra Time on Response

    A lawsuit over the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s vaccine mandate will go on at least a little longer, now that a federal judge has allowed the plaintiffs until Dec. 22 to file a response to the lab prime contractor’s motion to dismiss the case. UT-Battelle, a team of the University of Tennessee and Battelle, is […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Fewer Than 20 USW Members Losing Jobs at Portsmouth Over Vax Mandate

    Out of perhaps 950-to-1,000 United Steelworkers members employed by various companies at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio between 10 and 15 are expected to be fired as a result of the COVID-19 vaccination mandate for federal contractors, a union official said Tuesday. It is always possible a couple of those heretofore […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Consulting Firm Receives 5-Year Contract for Continued Advisory Board Work

    A Lexington, Ky.-based small business, EHI Consultants, on Tuesday was issued a 5-year, $4.5-million contract to continue providing support services for certain advisory boards to the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management. The firm-fixed contract renewal for EHI to continue providing staff support for the citizen advisory boards at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio […]

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