Vol. 7, No. 7 High Court Agrees to Hear Feds Challenge to Hanford Worker Comp Law
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Parsons, DOE Work on Technical Safety Concerns at Savannah River SWPF
The Salt Waste Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site, offline since late October for a combination of an operational outage and technical safety concerns, could get back up by the end of this month, a Department of Energy spokesperson said Monday. In late… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Demo Run of Idaho Waste Treatment Unit Hits Logistical Snag
What was shaping up to be a productive trial run of the long-delayed Integrated Waste Unit was cut short just after New Year’s, about a third of the way through its planned duration, because of weather-related supply-chain issues, a state official said Monday. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged […]
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National Laboratories
LANL Vax Mandate One of Three Remaining at Major NNSA Sites
Three of the four major National Nuclear Security Administration nuclear-weapon sites still have active COVID-19 vaccine mandates in spite of a federal judge’s December order that barred enforcement of the government’s federal contractor mandate. The prime… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Budget & Policy
Lamborn is New Top Republican on House Armed Services Panel With Nuclear Jurisdiction
Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) is the new top Republican on the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee, which writes the first drafts of policies touching on defense nuclear programs at the Department of Energy, the panel’s GOP leadership said Monday. Lamborn… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
In Letter NWTRB Says ‘Legal Framework’ Needed to Site New Spent Fuel Repository
In the latest rallying cry for an issue now back-burnered for a decade, the federal government’s independent technical experts on nuclear waste called on the Department of Energy to help forge a “long-term political commitment” to site a nuclear waste repository. “Successful… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Brinton to Join DOE as Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition Deputy
Sam Brinton will join the Department of Energy’s nuclear energy office as the agency’s second-in-command of nuclear waste issues, the nuclear-waste policy expert and current global political director for Deep Isolation announced Monday. Brinton, who currently serves as global political affairs director at aspirant nuclear-waste services company Deep Isolation, will become the Office of Nuclear […]