Vol. 10, No. 108 Trump taps Brandon Williams as his NNSA administrator
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Trump’s DOE nominee says U.S. uranium enrichment and pits ‘collapsed to nearly nothing’
WASHINGTON — Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump’s (R) pick for secretary of energy, said he would make it a priority to enrich uranium domestically Wednesday at his confirmation hearing. “We have lost our ability to enrich uranium in this country, to construct plutonium pits, and to do so many critical things that are key to […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Energy nominee Wright vows to back Hanford cleanup
Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of energy, pledged Wednesday to support ample Department of Energy funding “to clean up the mess” left at the Hanford Site in Washington state. “I cannot overstate how critical I think it is to finish the job to finish the cleanup at Hanford,” a fracking company chief […]
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Recommissioning & Restarts
Enviros drop lawsuit over federal bailout of Diablo Canyon
Friends of the Earth on Wednesday withdrew a federal lawsuit seeking to stop payment of $1.1 billion federal bailout of California’s last nuclear power plant, court papers show. The group dropped the suit, filed in April, after Diablo Canyon Owner Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) revealed Jan. 6 that its plans to extend the […]
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP shipments decline for 2024, according to annual data
The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., received fewer shipments of defense-related transuranic waste during 2024 than in 2023, a decline that bosses at the underground disposal site hinted at during the fall. With annual results counted, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) finished 2024 with 470 shipments down from 489 […]
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News & Analysis
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