Vol. 8, No. 157 Lawmakers urge ‘swift’ consideration of Holtec’s federal loan application for Palisades
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Plutonium Pit Production
NDAA would bar plutonium-cleanup expansion until LANL can make 30 pits per year
The Los Alamos National Laboratory would be barred from expanding equipment needed to dispose of surplus plutonium until the lab certifies it can produce at least 30 nuclear weapon cores annually, under a bill passed last week. The 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, which Congress passed Thursday, would prohibit expansion of the Advanced Recovery and […]
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Transuranic Waste
Idaho TRU shipments rise with full staffing, older drums draw attention
After its waste shipment rate declined briefly due to staffing, the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory is again sending about 12 shipments most weeks to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, according to a recent report. After bosses at the Idaho National Laboratory cut the number of weekly shipments during October to […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Status hearing set Jan. 5 in suit against EPA over Oak Ridge landfill
A federal court wants to know more, by Jan. 5, about a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by a citizens group seeking access to some U.S. Environmental Protection Agency documents about a radioactive waste landfill at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee. U.S. District Court Judge Ana Reyes ordered a status […]