Vol. 9, No. 22 Working date: 30 pits a year by 2028, LANL director says
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National Laboratories
Post COVID, recruiting okay, retention still challenging at nuke labs, directors say
WASHINGTON — A tech-industry downturn and a federal permission to boost worker compensation helped with hiring at U.S. nuclear-weapons labs, but hanging on to recruits is still tough, the lab directors said here Wednesday. “We’re actually in quite a good place right now,” Kimberly Budil, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, […]
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Recommissioning & Restarts
NRC needs a year to finish paperwork for Palisades restart, staff say
Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff need until January 2025 to amend Holtec International’s license for the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan, which the company wants to restart that August, commission staff said last week. “With respect to your requested completion schedule of January 31, 2025, the NRC staff believes that it will complete the safety […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Congresswoman Coldwater Creek contamination district investigated for campaign fund misuse
Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) on Wednesday confirmed that the Department of Justice is investigating her congressional campaign for allegedly spending campaign funds on a personal security detail. Bush, a progressive lawmaker who has advocated for cleaning up Manhattan Project-era radioactive contamination near her St. Louis-area district and compensating residents affected by it, confirmed the investigation […]