Vol. 5, No. 83 NDAA With Nuke Waste, Weapons Policy Changes, Passes House With Veto Proof Margin
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Cleanup & Remediation
Amid ‘Holistic Discussions’ on Cleanup Milestones, Hanford Advisory Board to Hear from Site’s Top DOE Official
The advisory board to the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state meets today at 9 a.m. Pacific Time and will hear updates on Tri-Party Agreement cleanup plans. Brian Vance, manager of DOE’s Richland Operations Office and Office of River Protection at the former plutonium production facility, is among the speakers scheduled to address […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Portsmouth Infrastructure Service Bids Due Thursday
Bid proposals for the new Infrastructure Support Services Contract at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio are due by 4 p.m. Eastern Time Thursday. Portsmouth Mission Alliance, a team made up of an affiliate of Idaho-based North Wind Group and Swift & Staley, holds the current $117-million business that began in March 2016 […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Holtec Seeks to Soothe Anti-Nuker at Public Hearing About Palisades License Transfer Application
Concerns over Holtec’s ability to finance the decommissioning of the Palisades nuclear plant, currently owned by Entergy Corp., rang loud at a public meeting held Tuesday afternoon to discuss the two companies’ request to swap ownership of the plant. Holtec plans to submit the application in December. The plant is scheduled to operate into 2022. […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NextEra Application to Extend Point Beach Ops Into 2050s Now Available
NextEra Energy’s application to extend its license at the Point Beach Nuclear Plant Units 1 and 2 has been made publicly available on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission website. “The NRC staff is reviewing the application to determine if it has sufficient information to complete the agency’s extensive safety and environmental reviews,” the commission said in […]
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International
State Department, Slovenia, Sign MOU for Civilian Nuke Cooperation
The U.S. and Slovenia, still weighing construction of its second civilian nuclear reactor, signed a memorandum of understanding concerning strategic civilian nuclear cooperation, the State Department announced Tuesday. The memorandum will “strengthen and expand strategic ties between the United States and a partner country by providing a framework for cooperation on civil nuclear issues and […]
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Budget & Policy
CORRECTION
The story “Authorization Bill With Requested NNSA Budget, Partial Restoration for EM, Expected to Pass Congress This Week; Veto Threat Looms” (Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, Dec. 07, 2020) should have said that, under the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, if the Nuclear Weapons Council determines the secretary of energy’s proposed budget for the NNSA is […]