Vol. 5, No. 42 House Appropriations Committee Advances DOE Budget on Party-Line Vote
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Budget & Policy
Savannah River Would Get Fatter Budget Under House Plan
Remediation of the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina would be funded at about $1.5 billion for fiscal 2021 under legislation passed out of the House Appropriations Committee on a 30-21 vote Monday. That amount would be about $83 million… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Congressman Faults Colleagues, White House for Blanking Yucca Mountain in Budget
Failure to provide funding for the Yucca Mountain geologic repository in Nevada signals a lack of leadership in Congress and at the White House toward finally resolving the decades-long impasse over disposal of the nation’s nuclear waste, Representative Dan Newhouse… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Two More COVID-19 Cases Reported at Hanford
Two more employees at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state have tested positive for COVID-19 since Friday. The most recent positive test for the coronavirus was reported Monday on a DOE Hanford website. The notice said the employee was last… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
No Missed Milestones During COVID Pandemic, NNSA Boss Says Again
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has not missed a single milestone in the six months since the first case of COVID-19 was recorded on U.S. shores and four months since the World Health Organization declared the disease a pandemic, the agency’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Groups Want Freeze on Spent-Fuel Storage Doc Comments During Pandemic
A coalition of 60 advocacy groups is calling on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to freeze the comment period on the draft environmental impact statement for a planned spent nuclear fuel storage facility in West Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic. The proceeding… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Small Plane Crashes on Hanford Property
A small plane crashed Sunday afternoon at the base of Rattlesnake Mountain on property owned by the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state. There were no injuries. The plane’s two occupants said they were flying to view the elk herd in the area,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must […]