Vol. 9, No. 16 Outage ends, IWTU to start heating up next month, DOE says
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Recommissioning & Restarts
NRC begins environmental review of Diablo Canyon life extension; seeks public comment
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission started an environmental review of Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s plan to keep California’s last nuclear power plant open until 2030, the agency announced Wednesday. The commission plans an online public meeting about the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
In public meeting, compliance exec pries NRC about rationale for proposed GTCC, low-level waste rule
Industry will wait at least until May before seeing the rationale Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff used to justify parts of a coming rule to expand disposal options for Greater-Than-Class-C radioactive waste, officials said Tuesday in an online public meeting. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as […]
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National Laboratories
Ninth Circuit sides with DOE Sandia contractor, finds scientist not fired
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled a longtime scientist and manager at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories was not effectively fired by the prime contractor when given only 24 hours to decide whether to retire. A three-judge… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
State Hanford regulator takes new Washington Ecology post
David Bowen, the top state regulator assigned to the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, has accepted a new job within the Washington Department of Ecology, the state agency said Tuesday. Bowen, who has been with Ecology since 2016 and led the Nuclear Waste… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Doomsday Clock stands at 90 seconds to midnight despite nuclear threats, ongoing wars
Despite all-out war in Ukraine, renewed nuclear tensions between Russia, China and the U.S., climate change and a host of other alarming global concerns, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists this year kept its Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds before midnight. A metaphorical… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]