Vol. 7, No. 12 
Parsons Expects SWPF Back Up Soon; Prepares for Plant Handover
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Budget & Policy
Feds Cite Half-Billion in DOE COVID-19 Leave Costs as Reason for Contractor Vax Mandate
In addition to claiming more than 800,000 American lives, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused “massive economic disruptions in the public and private sector,” which bolsters the case for requiring most employees of federal contractors to be vaccinated, U.S. government attorneys said in a brief filed with the Eleventh U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta. The […]
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Transuranic Waste
SRS Moving Closer to First Shipments of Downblended Plutonium to WIPP
The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina should be ready to start shipping certain transuranic waste from downblended plutonium to its underground disposal site in New Mexico by the end of the summer, an agency official told the Savannah River Site Citizens Advisory Board Tuesday. The Savannah River Site (SRS) goal is […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Holtec to Absorb Decom Joint Venture for Palisades Job After Environmentalist Objections
After an environmental group’s complaints, the company in charge of decommissioning a Michigan nuclear plant said in a Tuesday regulatory filing that it plans to switch the contractor for the job. Comprehensive Decommissioning International (CDI), part-owned by SNC-Lavalin and responsible for dismantling Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, will no longer be the project’s general contractor, Holtec […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Former CA Attorney Sues NRC for San Onofre Spent Fuel Mishap Docs
A lawsuit filed in federal court last week aims to force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to turn over more records related to a 2018 spent-fuel handling mishap at a California nuclear power plant under decommissioning, according to court records. The suit, filed Jan. 20 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California […]
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Budget & Policy
Cooper, Chair of Armed Services Panel With Nuke Jurisdiction, to Leave Congress
After state lawmakers broke up his district, Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), the chair of the Armed Forces panel that writes the first drafts of nuclear-weapon policy each year, will retire from Congress when his term ends in January 2023, he said Tuesday. “There’s no way, at least for me in this election cycle, but there […]