Vol. 7, No. 32

High-Level & Tank Waste

IWTU demonstration run resumes at Idaho National Lab

After working out various kinks since late December, the Department of Energy has resumed its demonstration run of the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit at the Idaho National Laboratory, a spokesperson said Wednesday. Following a successful heat-up, waste simulant processing resumed on May 23, a DOE spokesperson said in an email. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety […]
  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    NRC staff to recommend rules change, or not, for special nuclear material security after summer

    In early fall, Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will recommend whether the civilian nuclear energy regulator should overhaul federal rules about securing special nuclear material, an agency official said during a public meeting on Wednesday. Staff were due to turn in their notation vote paper to the commission by September, said Marshall Kohen, a technical assistant […]

  • Advanced Nuclear & SMRs

    NuScale defends SMR design after waste report

    The company behind an advanced reactor design insisted Wednesday that its technology was misrepresented by a scathing university report published earlier this week. NuScale’s small modular reactor (SMR) design “does not create waste and material streams that are novel to the nuclear power industry,” a spokesperson for the company told Exchange Monitor in a statement […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Washington Gov. Inslee visiting Hanford Site Thursday

    Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) planned to visit the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site Thursday and will be joined by officials from the Washington state Department of Ecology, according to an advisory issued through the governor’s office Wednesday. Ecology Director Laura Watson and the state’s agency’s nuclear waste program manager David Bowen will join Inslee […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Newhouse facing ex-stock car racer, other GOP challengers in open primary

    Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash), whose 4th Congressional district in Washington state includes the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, is facing multiple fellow Republicans, one of them a former NASCAR driver and another backed by former President Donald Trump, in an August primary, according to Ballotpedia.org. Jerrod Sessler is the best-funded of the four Republican challengers […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    State dept. arms control official to address annual meeting of disarmament group

    The Arms Control Association’s annual meeting was scheduled to begin in Washington Thursday morning, with addresses from U.S. and U.N. officials planned throughout the proceedings, the disarmament-advocating group said. The Washington-based non-government group was scheduled to hold the meeting at the National Press Club in Washington, a few blocks from the White House, beginning at […]

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