Vol. 6, No. 14 WIPP Expects to Dispose of More Waste in Coming Year
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Interim Storage Not Off the Table for House Environment Subcommittee, Rep. Tonko Says
The chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s environmental subcommittee did not rule out interim nuclear waste storage sites as a part of the Biden administration’s climate agenda during a press conference Tuesday. Rep. Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.), who heads up the Environment and Climate Change subcommittee, told Weapons Complex Morning Briefing during the virtual […]
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Budget & Policy
DNFSB, DOE Still Working on Info Sharing Memorandum Related to Trump Admin Order
As of Tuesday, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board and the Department of Energy are still tinkering with a draft memorandum of understanding about sharing information at nuclear-weapon sites while a Donald Trump administration order limiting DOE interactions with the board remains in effect. That’s according to a spokesperson for the independent federal board, which […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Environmental Group Petitions NRC Over ISP Interim Storage Site
Another environmental group asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to delay the licensing of Interim Storage Partners’ proposed consolidated interim storage facility in west Texas, according to a Wednesday morning appeals court filing. In the filing, anti-nuclear group Beyond Nuclear petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reverse the licensing proceedings […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Couple Changes on New EM Org Chart
The DOE Office of Environmental Management released a new organizational chart on Monday, on which William (Ike) White is labelled as acting assistant secretary for environmental management. As recently as Jan. 20, White was still listed as a senior adviser for DOE environmental management (EM). The retooled org tree also lists John Jones as acting […]
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Defense & Military
Ex-NNSA Admin Part of Pentagon Advisory Board Purge
The former head of the National Nuclear Security Administration is one of the hundreds of people who will be caught up in the Joe Biden administration’s purge of Pentagon advisory boards this month. Ex-Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty got a spot on the Defense Policy Board during the eleventh hour of the Donald Trump administration, shortly after […]