Vol. 8, No. 40 
Los Alamos will have equipment to make 30 nuke cores by 2030, according to DOE memo
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
First interim storage funding awards by summer, DOE says
The Department of Energy expects to begin awarding funds from its multi-million dollar interim storage funding program by midyear, an agency spokesperson said Tuesday. Roughly $26 million is up for grabs in DOE’s interim storage funding opportunity announcement, aimed at bringing together communities and other stakeholders to hash out how the department should go about […]
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Vitrification & Grout
Feds find much glass from Hanford vit plant can be managed as low-level waste
In a Federal Register notice Tuesday, the Department of Energy said that glass logs produced from low-level radioactive tank waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state can be treated as low-level waste. DOE published that conclusion after consulting with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, tribes and other local stakeholders in the final “Waste Incidental to […]
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Decommissioning
Holtec to submit permit modification request for Pilgrim water discharge in Q1 ‘23; no releases meantime
The company in charge of decommissioning a shuttered Massachusetts nuclear power plant affirmed Monday night that it would not discharge radioactive water from the facility until it gets a required federal permits modification later this year. Holtec International “will fully comply” with the terms of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station’s National current Pollutant Discharge Elimination System […]
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Transuranic Waste
DOE works with Carlsbad, N.M., on electric vehicle charging stations
The Department of Energy’s Carlsbad Field Office in New Mexico is working with Carlsbad city officials to secure federal money for electric vehicle charging stations in the community, a spokesperson said in a Tuesday email. The local Carlsbad Current Argus newspaper reported last week the city and DOE’s Carlsbad field office management have agreed to […]