Vol. 8, No. 25 Longtime government hands leading NNSA takeover of Savannah River
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Decommissioning
To restart shuttered Palisades plant, Holtec would need to start ‘from scratch,’ NRC commissioner Crowell says
Editor’s Note: A full interview with NRC Commissioner Bradley Crowell will be published in the Friday, February 7 issue of RadWaste Monitor. ROCKVILLE, MD. — A company seeking federal funds to restart a shuttered Michigan nuclear power plant is in for a heavy lift, one of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s newest top executives said during […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
DOE seeking consent-based siting czar
The Department of Energy is looking for someone to directly oversee the agency’s efforts to find a willing host for a federal interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, according to a press release Tuesday. DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy is seeking “highly qualified candidates” to become director of the agency’s Office of Integrated Waste […]
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Budget & Policy
Senate nuclear-weapons panel keeps leaders, has minimal roster changes in 118th Congress
Sens. Angus King (I-Maine) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) will continue as the chair and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee in the 118th Congress, the committee announced Tuesday. Among the subcommittee rank-and-file, there were only two changes. Democrats effectively expanded their Senate majority by one after November’s midterm elections, so the […]
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Naval Nuclear Propulsion
Lawmakers want report about LEU fuel feasibility for future attack sub
A group of four Democratic U.S. lawmakers want the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Navy for a report about using low-enriched uranium to fuel U.S. submarines. The three U.S. Representatives and one U.S. Senator made the request in a Jan. 27 letter to Jill Hruby, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Idaho cleanup contract helped boost Jacobs quarterly revenue for government work
The impact of the Department of Energy’s long-term cleanup contract at the Idaho National Laboratory helped lift revenue for Jacobs in the first quarter of fiscal 2023, an executive with the Dallas-based company said during a Tuesday earnings call. Critical Mission Solutions, the segment where Jacobs coordinates much of its government contracting work, took in […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Second protest for award of DOE National Training Center contract
Another small business protested the Department of Energy’s award of a new contract to manage the agency’s National Training Center in Albuquerque. Chenega Reliable Services, a San Antonio, Texas-based small business subsidiary of Chenega Corp., Anchorage, Alaska, lodged the protest with the Government Accountability Office on Feb. 3. Chenega is the second of two losing […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
‘NIMBY opportunism’ hampering private interim storage progress, think tank says
The president of a New Mexico-based conservative nonprofit organization in a recent op-ed railed on what he called “ignorance and hysteria” among the opposition to two proposed interim storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel in the southwest U.S. “[S]tate and federal politicians, working with anti-nuclear agitators, have been fiercely resistant” to proposed consolidated interim storage […]