Vol. 6, No. 31 ‘I Do Not Trust Savannah River,’ House Armed Services Chair Says After Pit Review
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Plutonium Pit Production
Enviros Sue to Stop Savannah River Pit Plant Until NNSA Does Another Environmental Review
Environmentalists on Tuesday sued to stop the National Nuclear Security Administration from building a plutonium pit plant at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., alleging violation of environmental law. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) should have to reopen the environmental record for the planned Savannah River Plutonium Pit Production Facility (SRPPF) and a […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
DOE Plans Next Step for 2,000-Gallon Test Bed Initiative at Hanford
After holding up the project two years, the Department of Energy will start developing an environmental assessment in July for a 2,000-gallon test of the Test Bed Initiative that involves grouting and out-of-state disposal of low-activity tank waste from the Hanford Site in Washington state. DOE’s site manager for Hanford, Brian Vance, told the Washington […]
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Transuranic Waste
Deadline for WIPP Prime Bids Extended into August
Bidders for the new prime contract at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., are getting two more weeks, until Aug. 3, to submit their proposals. In a notice published on a procurement website Tuesday the DOE Office of Environmental Management said it plans to extend the submission deadline for the […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC’s Caputo Out Today, Just Three Left on Commission
One of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s four current commissioners sees out her term today, leaving the Joe Biden administration with two seats to fill at the top of the independent regulatory agency. Commissioner Annie Caputo, who was nominated to her three-year term in 2018 under the Donald Trump administration, leaves NRC Wednesday, commission chair Christopher […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Holtec Backs Up NRC Call to Toss NM Interim Storage Suit
The company seeking a license to build an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in New Mexico joined the Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week in requesting that a judge toss the state attorney general’s lawsuit over the proposed site, a court filing shows. New Mexico attorney general Hector Balderas went to the wrong court […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Savannah River Citizens Board Seeks to Avoid Repeat of Membership Shortage
After two presidential administrations allowed the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site Citizens Advisory Board to dwindle to only seven out of a potential 25 members, the panel voted Monday to adopt a policy to avoid such staffing shortages in the future. The Citizens Advisory Board voted during an online meeting carried via Youtube to […]
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Budget & Policy
CORRECTION
The story “NNSA Approves CD-1 Range for Savannah River Pit Factory; $6.9B-$11.1B” [Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, June 29, 2021] should have said that Jill Hruby, the Joe Biden administration’s nominee for NNSA administrator, disclosed a schedule slip for the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SRPPF) in congressional testimony on May 27.