Vol. 5, No. 50 Ex-CFO Has Until End of Month to Prove Allegations of Financial Misconduct Against MSTS
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Cleanup & Remediation
Top Hanford Fed Expects 3 Crumbling Structures to be Stabilized in January
The Department of Energy’s manager for the Hanford Site in Washington state expects the stabilization of three crumbling underground waste structures near the Plutonium Finishing Plant to be shored up by the end of January. “We expect to complete that project by the end of January,” Hanford’s site manager Brian Vance told a meeting of […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC Rejects Nuclear Energy Institute Plea to Keep Force-on-Force Inspections on Hold
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission rejected a plea from the Nuclear Energy Institute to continue with its current policy of temporarily halting force-on-force inspections — simulated terrorist attacks on nuclear power plants — into 2021 last week. The policy, a guidance called IP 92707, was issued early in the pandemic and allowed the assessment of individual […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Meeting on LANL Stormwater Scheduled for This Week
The Department of Energy and its legacy cleanup contractor for the Los Alamos National Laboratory will discuss 2021 plans for improved stormwater runoff around the lab during a public meeting Wednesday evening. It is the second of two required semiannual meetings by DOE’s Office of Environmental Management at the federal complex and remediation contractor, Newport […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Host Community Forms Palisades Oversight Panel
A Palisades Community Advisory Panel has been formed in the Michigan-based Palisades nuclear plant host community. The plant is located in Covert Township, which had a population of just under 3,000 residents in the 2010 census and sits on the coast of Lake Michigan some 70 miles south of Grand Rapids. The township is located […]