Vol. 6, No. 69 House’s Draft DOE Budget for 2022 Shifts Money to Hanford, Blocks Some Weapons Programs
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Budget & Policy
NNSA Administrator Nominee Among Defense Appointees Held Up in Senate
President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration is one of many political appointees for key national defense posts whose confirmation votes have been blocked in the Senate, multiple people have told Weapons Complex Morning Briefing. Some of these people told the Monitor this week that Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) had held […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
License Decision for ISP Interim Storage Due This Fall, Hanson Tells Congress
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission could grant licenses to a pair of proposed commercial interim storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel in the next six months, the commission’s chairman told Congress Wednesday. The NRC should make its final call on Interim Storage Partners’ proposed site in west Texas should in September, Christopher Hanson, the NRC chair, […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Host County to Meet Thursday to Discuss Proposed Interim Storage Site
The Texas county slated to host a proposed interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel was scheduled to discuss the issue in a meeting Thursday and, according to one stakeholder, potentially resolve it. The Andrews County, Texas Commissioners’ Court will convene at 3:00 p.m. Central time “for a discussion and possible resolution” regarding Interim Storage […]
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Transuranic Waste
Carlsbad Boss Briefs New Mexico Panel on Los Alamos Shipments to WIPP
Despite a shortfall so far compared with the agency’s goals for 2021, disposing of transuranic waste from the Los Alamos National Laboratory continues to be a high priority for the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a federal manager told the New Mexico Legislature’s Radioactive & Hazardous Materials Committee Wednesday. The federal agency had […]
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Vitrification & Grout
SWPF Hits 1-Million Gallon Mark at Savannah River
Since starting up in October, the Salt Waste Processing Facility at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina has processed 1 million gallons of radioactive tank waste, plant builder Parson wrote this week in press release. The 140,000-square-foot Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) is the center of DOE plans to empty 36 […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
EM, State Officials to Discuss Tank Waste Thursday With National Academies Panel
Senior officials from the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, and the states of Oregon and Washington, were scheduled to discuss radioactive tank waste at the Hanford Site in Washington today during a virtual meeting of a National Academies panel. The Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board of the National Academies was slated to hear […]
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Budget & Policy
Federal Return to Work Plans Due Monday
With COVID-19 vaccines now widely available in the U.S., federal agencies including the Department of Energy are supposed to set plans by Monday to return personnel to offices. The White House Office of Management and Budget gave federal agencies until July 19 to “finalize their phased plans for reentry and post-reentry,” according to a June […]