Vol. 6, No. 84

Budget & Policy

Granholm, Acting NNSA Boss Face Senate Appropriations Panel

Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and the acting chief of DOE’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration, Charles Verdon, were to face questions from a Senate Appropriations Committee panel at 10 a.m. for the first time since the Joe Biden administration rolled out its Department of Energy budget request for fiscal 2022. The hearing by the […]
  • International

    SRS Upgrade for Disposal of Japanese Reactor Fuel Coming Later This Year

    Later this year and sometime next year, the Savannah River Site will install a crucial pair of upgrades at the H-Canyon chemical separations facility to help site personnel prepare plutonium from a Japanese reactor for on-site solidification and, eventually, deep-geologic disposal elsewhere. H-Canyon will get a new tank later this year and a new electrolytic […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    Five Companies in Mix to Move SPRU TRU Waste

    The Department of Energy expects to use one of five firms selected in December for a task order to move transuranic waste currently stored at the Separations Process Research Unit facility in Schenectady County. N.Y., an agency spokesperson said via email Monday. EnergySolutions, Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Unitech Services Group, Waste Control Specialists and Veolia Nuclear […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    Some TRU Shipments to WIPP Improperly Weighed, Feds Say

    Transuranic waste generators were for years estimating the weight of their payloads instead of weighing them out, so the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico has temporarily stopped taking shipments with dunnage — material used to fill out shipping containers, according to a federal report. The practice is widespread across DOE, according to the […]

  • Decommissioning

    Power Back On in South NJ After Accident at Oyster Creek Causes Outage

    Residents in the area around a shuttered nuclear plant in southern New Jersey were in the dark for around two hours Monday afternoon after a construction accident caused a power outage, said the company in charge of decommissioning the site. A contractor working for Holtec International backed into a utility pole while moving equipment at […]

  • Advanced Nuclear & SMRs

    DOE Announces $61M in Research Grants for Advanced Nuclear

    Nearly a hundred advanced nuclear energy projects are getting cash from the federal government, with the bulk going toward nuclear waste research, the Department of Energy announced Tuesday in the midst of budget season. Most of the $61 million DOE is awarding to advanced nuclear research programs, $58 million, will go to universities, the agency […]

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