Vol. 7, No. 65 Supreme Court strikes down Wash. state workers compensation law; state says protections remain for Hanford workers
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Budget & Policy
First-draft of DOE’s 2023 budget misses request for nuclear weapons, beats for nuclear cleanup
The Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons budget would increase year-over-year for 2023 but come up short against the Joe Biden administration’s request, under legislation a House subcommittee planned to debate on Tuesday. Meanwhile, under the House Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee’s recently unveiled bill, the budget for cleanup of shuttered nuclear-weapons production sites handled […]
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Budget & Policy
DOE Nuclear Energy top line up in House’s first draft of 2023 budget
Proposed funding in the House for the Department of Energy’s nuclear power office was up slightly compared with the White House’s request, according to a draft of the lower chamber’s 2023 energy and water spending bill scheduled for debate Tuesday. If it became law, the House’s proposed budget would allocate around $1.78 billion to DOE’s […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Simpson skeptical about Biden admin’s interim storage spending shuffle
The ranking member of the House’s energy and water appropriations subcommittee said Tuesday he wants more clarity on a White House proposal to move cash for its consent-based interim storage effort out of the Nuclear Waste Fund Oversight program. “I don’t know what the reasoning behind it is,” Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) told Exchange Monitor […]
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP conversion to non-diesel underground equipment hits speed bump
A Department of Energy effort to reduce harmful underground emissions at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico will be slowed down pending a fire-hazard analysis of three new lithium-ion-battery-operated haul trucks, a government safety watchdog said in a recent update. Nuclear Waste Partnership, the DOE’s prime contractor for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Environmental Management Office chief of staff leaving government to join Longenecker
Michael Nartker, the chief of staff for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, will leave the government to join DOE small-business contractor Longenecker & Associates, someone familiar with the move said Tuesday. Nartker has worked in various communications and external relations roles for DOE’s nuclear-weapons cleanup branch since 2015, capping his seven-year government […]