Vol. 4, No. 25 Oregon, Wash. State Oppose New DOE Interpretation for High-Level Waste
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Plutonium Pit Production
Appeals Court Permanently Lifts Injunction Against Closing MFFF
A federal appeals court on Tuesday permanently lifted a legal ban against closing the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) in South Carolina, cutting down the state’s argument that such a move amounted to creating an illegal, permanent plutonium repository. The decision was a legal formality, as the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE to Issue Hanford Tank Solicitation by February
The Department of Energy said Monday it plans to release a final request for proposals (RFP) for the Tank Closure Contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state within 45 days. The final RFP will be posted at www.fedconnect.net As DOE said last week, the closure contract that results from the solicitation will replace the […]
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Transuranic Waste
Ex-EPA Official Tapped to Lead New Mexico Environment Department
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) said Monday she has selected a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official as secretary of the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED). James Kenney until recently was a senior policy adviser for oil and natural gas at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C. He will have an official start date, […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DNFSB Plans Hearing on Idaho National Lab Drum Breach
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board plans to hold a public hearing by May to discuss an April 2018 accident at the Energy Department’s Idaho National Laboratory in which four drums of radioactive sludge overheated and blew off their lids. Three of the four DNFSB members voted on Dec. 12 to hold a hearing in […]
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Decommissioning
NRC Review of Pilgrim License Transfer to Take 9-12 Months
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission expects to take nine months to a year to complete its review of the request from Entergy and Holtec International to transfer the federal license for the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Massachusetts. The two corporations in November submitted the request to transfer the plant’s operations license and license for […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Federal Shutdown Spurs New Location for Hearing on Spent Fuel Storage License
The partial shutdown of the federal government appears likely to force relocation of oral arguments on requests to intervene in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission license application for a planned spent nuclear fuel storage site in New Mexico. The NRC has received its full-year funding for the current fiscal 2019, but federal courts are expected to […]