Vol. 8, No. 19 California Energy Commission recommends Diablo Canyon life extension
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Decommissioning
UCOR boss touts progress on taking down aging structures at Y-12, Oak Ridge Lab
PHOENIX —One year into its new 10-year deal at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, Amentum-led United Cleanup Oak Ridge has finished demolishing some key structures at the Y-12 National Security Complex, the remediation prime’s CEO said Wednesday. All of the old contaminated buildings at Y-12 and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory […]
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Transuranic Waste
DOE targeting return to pre-2014 WIPP shipment levels
PHOENIX – The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico has since 2017 received only half as many transuranic waste shipments annually as it did prior to a February 2014 underground radiation leak that halted operations for three years – but that could soon change, officials said Wednesday. Encouraged by the startup […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
National call for interim storage volunteers could include more cash, NE-8 Petry says
PHOENIX — When it comes time to search for a potential host for a federal interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, the Department of Energy could offer financial incentives to move things along, the agency’s top nuclear waste official said here Wednesday. Once DOE finishes up its ongoing information-gathering activities among interim storage stakeholders, […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
At DOE, consent-based siting success takes many forms
PHOENIX — Opening a federally-run interim storage facility for the nation’s stranded spent nuclear fuel inventory might not be the only way the Department of Energy could declare victory in its most recent effort to build one, the agency’s nuclear waste lead said here Wednesday. DOE’s consent-based approach for siting a federal interim storage facility […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Close cooperation between DOE, vit-plant contractors helped Hanford ride out wind storm
PHOENIX— Planning by the Department of Energy and its contractors allowed the Hanford Site in Washington state to withstand the impact of recent wind gusts in excess of 80 miles per hour, the boss of the landlord services provider said here Wednesday. “The massive windstorm” a few weeks ago knocked out of service about 13 […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
DOE reups EnergySolutions, Waste Control Specialists for low-level, other waste
The Department of Energy plans to extend, by five more years until April 11, 2028, business deals with two privately-held disposal sites that occasionally take radioactive waste from the federal agency, according to procurement notices published Monday. The DOE’s Office of Environmental Management published a “justification for other than full and open competition” for certain […]