Vol. 4, No. 179

Transuranic Waste

Energy Department Envisions Prompter Waste Disposal Under HLW Reinterpretation

Not all waste resulting from reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel should be considered high-level radioactive waste (HLW), the Energy Department reaffirmed Wednesday. Under its new interpretation, DOE says some lower-risk reprocessing waste can be deemed non-HLW and be disposed of according to its radiological traits rather than its point of origin. That could speed up […]
  • Cleanup & Remediation

    End State Contracting Approach is Sticking Around

    WASHINGTON — While leadership is changing at the Energy Department Office of Environmental Management, a recently-initiated approach to procurement remains in place. Some people have inquired recently if the end state contracting approach is still in effect, Norbert Doyle, deputy assistant secretary, acquisition and project management, told the House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus here Wednesday evening […]

  • Plutonium Pit Production

    SRNS Tees Up Procurement of Dilute and Dispose Hardware

    Savannah River Nuclear Solutions is laying the groundwork to acquire the three custom-built gloveboxes needed for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Surplus Plutonium Disposition program: the proposed replacement for the cancelled Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility. Under the currently unfunded and unauthorized program, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) would install the gloveboxes at Savannah […]

  • National Laboratories

    Ellis to Succeed Retiring Douglass as Deputy Director of Sandia

    National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia appointed D.E. “Dori” Ellis deputy director of the nation’s nuclear-weapons-technology lab, the Honeywell-owned lab-manager announced Wednesday. Ellis will be the lab’s No. 2 executive behind director Stephen Younger. She will replace David Douglass, who will retire in June, according to a lab press release. Ellis is a longtime […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    Dem Lawmakers on Key Committees Urge New START Extension

    Eight Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump in a letter to extend the New START arms control treaty that limits the U.S. and Russia to 1,550 deployed strategic nuclear warheads. New START went into effect in 2011. The Barack Obama administration proposed the treaty, which the then-Democrat-controlled Senate […]

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