Vol. 4, No. 50 DOE Environmental Management Would Receive $7.5B Under Compromise 2020 Appropriations Bill
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Budget & Policy
Most NNSA Nuclear Weapons Programs Funded Above Request in Final 2020 Approps Package
The National Nuclear Security Administration would get all the money it needs, and more, in what’s left of fiscal year 2020, including some $710 million to start work on a controversial two-state plutonium pit complex that would bring a new nuclear-weapon… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Congress Blanks Yucca Mountain, Nuclear Waste Storage in FY20 Budget
Congress plans to provide no funding for nuclear waste storage or disposal in a massive fiscal 2020 appropriations bill rolled out Monday evening. House and Senate appropriators released two packages encompassing 12 separate spending bills for the budget year that… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Energy Dept. Poised to Release Draft RFP for Idaho Cleanup
A draft request for proposals for a new cleanup contract at the U.S. Energy Department’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) could be released by late December, according to a new procurement notice. The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management said in a Dec. 11 notice on a federal procurement website that the draft document should be […]
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Decommissioning
Pilgrim Decommissioning Completion Pushed Back Up To Three Years, Mass. AG Says
Holtec International has already added up to three years to its schedule for decommissioning the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Massachusetts, which could increase certain costs for the project by $102 million, according to the commonwealth Attorney General’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Pro2Serve Gets $2M Contract to Support Centrus’ New All-U.S. Enrichment Cascade
Professional Project Services has received a three-year contract potentially worth more than $2.3 million to support construction by Centrus Energy of a 16-machine uranium enrichment cascade at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site near Piketon, Ohio. Under… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NRC Board Rejects Latest Petition for Intervention in Texas Spent Fuel Licensing
An Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has rejected an advocacy organization’s petition to submit a late argument against licensing a spent nuclear fuel storage facility in West Texas. The Austin-based Sustainable… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Washington State Ecology Deputy Following Boss Into Retirement
Washington Department of Ecology Deputy Director Polly Zehm is retiring from state service at the end of January, just a month after her boss, agency spokesman Randy Bradbury said Monday. Zehm served more than 22 years with the agency, about eight of them as deputy… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Dim Prospects for Dust Devils, Hanford’s Hometown Ballclub
As the Department of Energy prepares to reshape the state of business at the Hanford’s Site by switching its industry affiliations at the former plutonium-production campus, Major League Baseball has proposed abandoning its affiliation with a hometown fixture… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]