Vol. 8, No. 151 Illinois partially repeals ban on nuclear power, removes spent fuel from list of high level waste
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Texas tells court not to re-hear case that killed commercial interim storage
Texas on Monday told a federal court not to convene all of its judges to rehear a case that this summer effectively killed commercial interim storage of spent nuclear fuel in the U.S. In a 24 page brief filed with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Ken Paxton,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex […]
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Reindustrialization & Redevelopment
RFI issued for clean energy at Nevada National Security Site
The Department of Energy on Thursday issued a request for information from entities interested in leasing land at the Nevada National Security Site for solar or other carbon-free power projects. The Nevada National Security Site has about 2,400 acres of desert… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
Glovebox Fire shuts portion of LANL plutonium lab for nearly two weeks
On Nov.6 the Los Alamos Fire Department responded to the highly-secure Plutonium Facility at the national laboratory for a report of a fire inside a glovebox used to manipulate radioactive material. It took until Nov. 16 to reopen the room where the fire occurred,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
EPA gets until Friday to answer Oak Ridge Freedom of Information suit
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has given the U.S. government until this Friday, Dec. 15, to answer a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by an environmental group over documents concerning a low-level radioactive waste landfill at the Department of Energy’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]