Vol. 5, No. 30 DOE Headquarters in Washington to Partially Reopen Next Week
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Cleanup & Remediation
COVID-19 Infections Rise to 23 at Savannah River Site
The Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina as of Tuesday had confirmed 23 cases of COVID-19 among its workforce. That is up from 22 reported at the end of last week. Sixteen of those employees have recovered and returned to work, a spokeswoman for the DOE’s SRS operations said by email. Savannah River […]
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Naval Nuclear Propulsion
COVID-19 Cramped Columbia Sub Missile Tube Work, Navy Says
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, vendors to Columbia-class prime General Dynamics Electric Boat might be a few months late delivering missile tubes for the next-generation ballistic missile submarine, the Navy’s program executive officer said Monday. “[T]hat did hit us hard on the missile tubes, to the extent of probably a couple months delay in the […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
Nevada, NNSA Get Another Month to Settle Plutonium Suit
State and federal lawyers are dotting “i’s” and crossing “t’s” on a settlement that would end the lawsuit over the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) 2018 shipment of weapon-usable plutonium to Nevada. In an order posted Friday, Judge Miranda Du of U.S. District Court for Nevada gave the parties until June 29 to tweak the […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wildfire Near Hanford Brought Under Control, Callbacks Not Stopped
A weekend wildfire on Gable Mountain in Washington state, near the Energy Department’s Hanford Site , been brought under control, officials said Monday. The fire was ignited Saturday night by a lightning strike and burned about 9,000 acres before being contained by 8 p.m. local time Sunday night, said Reneé Brooks, spokeswoman for contractor Mission […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
NNSA Authorizes Construction of New Y-12 Calciner Needed for UPF Startup
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) last week gave the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee the all-clear to start building a key piece of equipment needed to move uranium secondary-stage work out of the aging Building 9212 and into the under-construction Uranium Processing Facility. The new calciner, to be built in 9212, reached its […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
New Savannah River Lab Documents Posted to Procurement Website
Energy Department documents addressing issues from research needs to employee benefits at the Savannah River National Laboratory have been added to a federal procurement website. The DOE Office of Environmental Management in April published a draft request for proposals (RFP) for the potential 10-year, $3.8 billion stand-alone lab contract. Comments on that draft RFP were […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NRC Holds Tight to Nuclear Waste Fund Balance
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission in April spent just $84 of its remaining balance from the federal fund intended to pay for a radioactive waste repository. As has been the case each month for more than a year, the agency used the money for unspecified “program planning and support.” The expenditure left it with a Nuclear […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
National Academies Wants Experts for Studies on Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Waste
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is accepting nominations for experts to a new panel that will write reports on the nuclear fuel cycle and waste issues linked to advanced nuclear reactors. Nominations are due by June 11, according to the National Academies. The experts will “evaluate and assess (1) the merits and viability […]