Vol. 5, No. 83

Budget & Policy

Budgets to Stay at 2020 Levels at Least One More Week, Under Another Stopgap

The Department of Energy and other federal agencies will operate under their 2021 budgets for at least another week beyond Friday , if a short-term continuing resolution slated for a House vote on Wednesday becomes law. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) announced the impending vote on Twitter Monday afternoon. The current stopgap bill, passed […]
  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Fluor Idaho Elects to Pay $580K Penalty Over 2018 Drum Breach

    After reviewing its options, cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho has decided to pay the $580,700 civil penalty issued by the Department of Energy over an April 2018 explosion at the Idaho National Laboratory where four 55-gallon drums overheated and blew off their lids spewing radioactive sludge. “Fluor Idaho chose not to contest the findings” in the […]

  • Commercial Decommissioning

    NRC to Hold Palisades License Transfer Meeting Today

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a meeting today to discuss the transfer of the Michigan-based Palisades nuclear plant license from Entergy Corp. to Holtec Intl. for decommissioning.  Palisades is scheduled to shut down on May 31, 2022: a couple years later than the original shutdown date of 2018. The companies agreed to the sale […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Little Chance of Deviating From Obama, Trump Nuclear Posture Reviews, HASC Chair Says

    Even in a government where Democrats will control the White House and at least one chamber of Congress, political consensus appears to favor continuing the nuclear modernization program the Barack Obama administration started in 2016, the head of the House Armed Services Committee said Monday. “Any effort to change that is running into very strong […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    North Wind Gets 6 More Months as Carlsbad Tech Assistance Contractor

    The Department of Energy has picked up a six-month option keeping North Wind Portage on the job as the technical assistance contractor at the Carlsbad Field Office in New Mexico until June 2021. The basic contract and associated task orders were extended six months from Dec. 4, last Friday, to June 3, 2021, a spokesperson […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Yucca Mountain Agency Gets New Director

    Dr. Fred Dilger, a staunch Yucca Mountain critic, has been named Executive Director of Nevada’s Agency for Nuclear Projects by Gov. Steve Sisolak.  “Dr. Dilger has been at the forefront in our State’s efforts in nuclear waste policy and in halting the Yucca Mountain Project,” Sisolak tweeted Monday evening.  Nevada’s Agency for Nuclear Projects/Nuclear Waste […]

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