Vol. 7, No. 21

High-Level & Tank Waste

Savannah River Mission Completion Takes Over Liquid Waste Cleanup, Talks Staff Issues

A joint venture led by BWX Technologies, Savannah River Mission Completion, has taken over liquid waste operations now at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Savannah River Mission Completion (SRMC), which began its transition at the end of November, was to officially assume control of the waste management operations from Amentum-led […]
  • Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle

    DUF6 Work Resuming at Paducah Site, Portsmouth to Follow

    After being offline for nearly two years due to a combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and plant upgrades, the Department of Energy says conversion of depleted uranium hexafluoride to a more stable form is resuming at the Paducah Site in Kentucky. Likewise, depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion into uranium oxide at the Portsmouth Site in […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Idaho Cleanup Boss Expects Lab Landscape to Change Over 10 Years

    Over the next 10 years, virtually all of the legacy transuranic waste at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory will be shipped to New Mexico for underground disposal and the lab’s Radioactive Waste Management Complex will be closed, the president of Jacobs-led Idaho Environmental Coalition, said Thursday. In addition, the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit […]

  • Decommissioning

    Experts, Enviros Petition Whitmer to Keep Palisades Plant Open

    Hundreds of nuclear engineers and climate advocates in a letter earlier this month implored Michigan’s governor to step in and stop a nuclear power plant’s planned closure in the spring. “We seek your assistance in preventing the permanent and premature closure of the Palisades nuclear plant in May 2022, nine years before its operating license […]

  • Decommissioning

    NRC Chair Hanson Tours SONGS Dry Storage Pad

    Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman Christopher Hanson took a break from the East Coast in early February to tour San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, the California plant’s operator said in a press release last week. Hanson visited the Pendleton, Calif., San Onofre (SONGS) “earlier this month” and toured the site’s turbine building area, spent fuel storage […]

  • Budget & Policy

    This Week

    Here are some events related to defense and civilian matters that the Exchange Monitor staff is tracking this week. March 1 – Hearing, House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee. Witnesses include Sasha Baker, deputy under secretary of defense for policy and Adm. Charles Richard, commander, United States Strategic Command. Rayburn House Office Building Room 2118 and streaming […]

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