Vol. 4, No. 237 Energy Dept. Waste Shipments to NNSS Violated Site’s Acceptance Criteria, Nev. Gov. Says
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE Cleanup Corporate Services Chief Apparently on the Move
Another member of the brain trust for former assistant energy secretary for environmental management Anne Marie White is rumored to be on the move. The head of corporate services at the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management (EM), Paul Bosco, is apparently leaving his current post to take another position at the agency, two industry […]
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Stockpile Stewardship
Z Machine Back Online After Massive Generator Failures in June
The Z Pulsed Power Facility at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., was slated to come back online Wednesday after a serious accident in June knocked the facility out of commission for three weeks, a senior laboratory employee said this week. The June 17 accident, which shook Sandia’s high-energy density physics lab longer and […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Centrus Starts Work on New Enrichment Cascade Under Letter Contract From DOE
Centrus Energy Corp. has started work on a next-generation uranium enrichment cascade that could give the company a leg up in the competition to build the next domestic enrichment facility for national defense, according to a document published Wednesday by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In a June 27 letter to the federal regulator, the […]
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Non-Proliferation
Former NNSA Leadership Duo Urges New START Extension
WASHINGTON — The Barack Obama administration’s National Nuclear Security Administration leadership duo whipped the Donald Trump administration here Tuesday to immediately extend the New START nuclear arms control treaty with Russia and forget, for now, about modifying the pact. The bilateral treaty, which limits Moscow and Washington to 1,550 deployed strategic nuclear warheads and 700 […]
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Decommissioning
NRC Completes Follow-Up Inspection of SONGS Used-Fuel Incident
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week that Southern California Edison (SCE) has taken significant steps to address the failures that led to a mishap last year in the transfer of used fuel at its San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). However, the agency also cited the utility for five minor violations of safety […]
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International
Sellafield Ltd. Chief Executive to Exit in January
The head of the government-owned company that manages the United Kingdom’s Sellafield nuclear site is scheduled to step down in January 2020. Paul Foster has served as chief executive officer at Sellafield Ltd. since 2016, and has been at the site since 2000, according to an announcement Thursday. Sellafield Ltd. manages nuclear fuel reprocessing and […]