Vol. 6, No. 60

High-Level & Tank Waste

DOE Says Billions in Savings Possible by Reclassifying High-Level Waste

Lowering the hazard classification of some defense-nuclear waste could save the Department of Energy more than $200 billion in disposal costs, the agency told Congress in a report three years in the making. Most of the potential savings, between roughly $70 billion and $200 billion, would come from reclassifying low-activity waste at the Hanford West […]
  • Cleanup & Remediation

    New Year Sees More Positive COVID Tests at Hanford

    On Monday, 14 workers at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state informed management they have tested positive for COVID-19. That is according to a bulletin posted on a DOE Hanford operations website run by the Leidos-led Mission Support Alliance. The latest batch of positive tests brings the total number of COVID-19 cases […]

  • National Laboratories

    Sandia Splits Deterrence Division, Brings in Ex-Raytheon Exec to Top New Units

    The Sandia National Laboratories split its Nuclear Deterrence division into two new organizations and brought in a former Raytheon executive to oversee them, the Albuquerque, N.M.-based labs network announced this week. Sandia rolled out the changes internally in November, a labs spokesperson wrote in an email to Weapons Complex Morning Briefing. A major cog in […]

  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    NRC Chair Svinicki Resigning Before Inauguration

    Kristine Svinicki will retire from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Jan. 21, more than a year before her five-year term is up, after serving under three presidents and leading the nuclear-power-plant regulator as chair since 2017. Svinicki, first nominated to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2007 by then-President George W. Bush, has been commissioner since […]

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