Vol. 8, No. 46

Transuranic Waste

WIPP receives 28 shipments during May

The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., received 28 shipments of transuranic waste during May, according to its website. Twenty shipments during the month came from the Idaho National Laboratory, four from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, three from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and one […]
  • Decommissioning

    New York lawmakers return to Albany to weigh Indian Point wastewater ban

    New York state lawmakers were set to convene for a special session on Tuesday that will include consideration of a bill prohibiting discharge of irradiated wastewater into the Hudson River. The bill, S06893, would make it “unlawful to discharge any radiological substance into the Hudson River in connection with the decommissioning of a nuclear power […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Natural attenuation favored by DOE for groundwater in parts of Oak Ridge uranium enrichment area

    The Department of Energy favors continued reliance on Mother Nature, with monitoring and other steps, to clean up groundwater within large chunks of the former uranium enrichment property at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, a federal advisory committee heard last Wednesday. Largely leaving the contamination alone and checking it regularly to “attenuate” or reduce […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    NAC buys Niagara, sets up Canadian subsidiary

    Georgia-based NAC International, a provider of nuclear fuel services and  products, said Monday it has bought Niagara Energy Products, which will become a Canadian subsidiary of NAC. Niagara Energy Products, based in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, supplies nuclear containers and pressure boundary components for the nuclear energy, defense, natural resource extraction industries and Industrial markets […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Honeywell dinged for conducting firearms training at too-hot Kansas City firing range

    The Department of Energy is wagging its enforcement finger at Honeywell, which manages five of its nuclear security sites, for conducting firearms training for security personnel in sweltering heat at the Kansas City National Security Campus.  On May 11, 2022, when it was 85 degrees outside, Honeywell conducted outdoor firearms training and qualification activities at […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    This week

    Here are some events related to defense and civilian nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking this week. June 21 – House Armed Services Committee. Full committee markup of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2118. Washington. Streamed online on the comittee’s website. 10 a.m.  21-22 – Energy […]

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