Vol. 2, No. 35

Cleanup & Remediation

Tight Window Between Building LAWPS and Starting Liquid Waste Treatment at Hanford

PHOENIX — A facility needed to treat low-activity liquid waste at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state will not be built until 2021 — the year before contractor Bechtel National must either prove its Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) is ready to treat low-activity waste, or forfeit more than $150 million in fees, according to […]
  • National Laboratories

    WCS Negotiating TRU Waste Storage Contract Extension

    PHOENIX — Waste Control Specialists and the Department of Energy are negotiating an extension of the contract for the company’s continued storage of transuranic waste from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, a WCS executive said Tuesday.… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Savannah River Gets Extra TRU Waste Temp Storage Time Ahead of Shipping

    The Savannah River Site received additional time Monday for storage of transuranic (TRU) waste containers outside of regulated areas so the facility can better prepare to resume shipments of the material to the newly reopened Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

  • Commercial Decommissioning

    Vermont AG Looks to Defend Ratepayers in Vermont Yankee Sale

    Vermont Attorney General Thomas J. Donovan Jr. on Tuesday vowed to protect state taxpayers by intervening in the Vermont Public Service Board’s review of Entergy’s pending sale of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant to decommissioning specialist NorthStar… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Vapor Data Chokes Hanford’s Wireless Internet

    PHOENIX — With a wireless networking infrastructure one contractor called “young,” dealing with the torrents of data generated by monitoring the Hanford Site’s millions of gallons of liquid nuclear waste can be challenging. “For those of you that have… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    IAEA Working on 2018-2021 Nuclear Security Plan

    The International Atomic Energy Agency is finalizing its nuclear security plan for the next four years, Director General Yukiya Amano said Monday at the IAEA Board of Governors meeting being held all week in Vienna, Austria. The Board of Governors, one of the agency’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must […]

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