Vol. 6, No. 19

Cleanup & Remediation

Final Cost of West Valley Cleanup Could Hit $10B, GAO Says

Remaining cleanup costs at the West Valley Demonstration Project site in New York could run anywhere from $1.4 billion to $10.6 billion depending on how much contamination is dug up and shipped off-site, the Government Accountability Office said in its report last week on waste disposal at the site. As of February 2020, the Department […]
  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Hanford Site Sees More Positive Tests

    Management at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state has confirmed nine new cases of COVID-19 since Friday. Bosses at the former plutonium production facility were informed of the latest batch of positive cases, seven, on Monday, according to an advisory posted on a DOE website run by the site services contractor. The […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Ohio AG Seeking to Block Bailout Payments to Nuke Plant Operator

    The Ohio Attorney General’s office is seeking an injunction against FirstEnergy Corp. and Energy Harbor from being guaranteed an income of $102 million annually — a guarantee stashed away in the fine print of the scandal-plagued nuclear bailout legislation, Ohio House Bill 6.  Signed into law in 2020, House Bill 6 provides a $150 million […]

  • Decommissioning

    NRC Tosses Watchdog Petition for Public Hearing on Three Mile Island Sale

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission denied a nuclear watchdog’s request for a hearing regarding the sale of Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant’s Unit 2 reactor, according to a memorandum published by the agency Friday. The watchdog, Three Mile Island Alert, Inc., wanted the NRC to take a closer look at the transfer of the Three Mile […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Orano Set to Double Production of Dry-Storage Canisters This Year, Says Company

    Nuclear services company Orano projects it will double its output of dry-storage canisters, relative to 2020, after consolidating its heavy manufacturing in the United States, the company said in a statement.  In 2020, Orano fulfilled all of its customer contracts for its NUTECH horizontal modular storage system (NUHOMS) dry-storage canisters while operating at two-thirds manufacturing […]

  • National Laboratories

    LANL Gets Another Partial Snow Day

    Adding another hash mark to the record of winter disruptions on the hill, the Los Alamos National Laboratory opened late today, advising essential personnel needed for national security work inside the fence to wait out some heavy snow before reporting in. That means the roughly 20% of Los Alamos’ workforce still on site amid ongoing […]

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