Vol. 7, No. 28 Defense nuclear budgets up all round in full-year omnibus spending bill
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Decommissioning
In reversal, Holtec to again seek federal bailout for shuttered Palisades plant
The company in charge of decommissioning a shuttered Michigan nuclear power plant said Monday that it would make another attempt to restart the facility via a federal bailout scheme. Although it had previously tamped down the possibility that it could participate in the second round of the Department of Energy’s civil nuclear credits program, a […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Comments about Pilgrim discharge ‘misconstrued,’ Holtec tells EPA; no unauthorized releases planned
Responding to a scathing letter from the government’s environmental regulator, the company in charge of decommissioning a Massachusetts nuclear power plant insisted Monday that it was not planning to discharge irradiated wastewater from the facility in violation of a federal permit. In a Monday letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Holtec International sought to […]
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Stockpile Stewardship
Livermore subcritical experiment series should now finish in early FY24, lab says
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Nimble series of subcritical experiments in Nevada should wrap up in fiscal year 2024, about a year later than the California nuclear-weapons lab once planned. The Nimble series “is scheduled to be complete later in FY23 & early FY24” a lab spokesperson wrote in an email on Monday, referring to government […]
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Budget & Policy
DNFSB quorum could become issue in 2023
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board could be left without a quorum within 10 months if President Joe Biden fails to nominate and win Senate approval of at least one individual before the term ends for a long-serving member. It increasingly appears 2022 will draw to a close without the White House nominating anyone to […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Hanford, other DOE nuclear sites brace for frigid weather
The Hanford Site in Washington state and other Department of Energy nuclear facilities in the northern United States could see single-digit temperatures and cold winds in the days leading up to Christmas, according to forecasts from the National Weather Service. For example, the Richland, Wash., area, where Hanford is located, could see a Wednesday night […]