Vol. 6, No. 32 Longer Transition Times Could Cure Task Order Troubles, DOE Finds
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Transuranic Waste
LANL Leery of TRU Waste Jam With Pit Start, WIPP Outage, Set to Collide
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant could go offline for a major ventilation upgrade right around the time the Los Alamos National Laboratory starts casting new nuclear weapon cores and generating a slew of new defense transuranic waste, a lab official said Wednesday at the online Waste Management Symposia conference. “As we progress in our nuclear […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
Kreitz Leaving Los Alamos; Nelson Returning to Lab to Helm Pit Infrastructure Projects
Paul Kreitz, who has helped manage planning and construction of pit production infrastructure at the Los Alamos National Laboratory for the past two years or so, is leaving lab manager Triad National Security in late April, a lab official said this week. Kreitz was not one of Triad National Security’s key personnel. Before Los Alamos, […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
COVID, Chromium, Roadside Contamination Complicate Los Alamos Work
Crews handling legacy cleanup at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory were relieved last summer to find an underground chromium plume remained static during three months of bare bones operations due to COVID-19 restrictions. “One of our concerns was the possibility of plume rebound,” where it might drift closer to local drinking water […]
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International
Amentum Nabs Big Dounreay Prototype Fast Reactor Contract in U.K.
Amentum- and Jacobs-led teams each recently clinched new cleanup contracts at the United Kingdom’s Dounreay site in Scotland. Site prime Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd., a consortium of Cavendish Nuclear, Jacobs and Amentum, awarded both contracts. The Amentum-led team had by far the bigger win, beating out five competitors, including a Jacobs-led team, to clinch a […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
NRC Very Low-Level Waste Scoping Study Due April, Agency Says
A Nuclear Regulatory Commission study recommending updates for disposal of very low-level radioactive waste is scheduled to wrap up this spring, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission staffer said this week. The commission’s very low-level waste (VLLW) scoping study is supposed to finish up in April, Stephen Koenick, NRC low-level waste project chief, said Wednesday in a […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
They’re Coming Down Faster Than They’re Going Up: 30 Minutes With Christopher Hanson, Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Christopher Hanson, the newly minted chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has seen nuclear energy from just about every angle the federal government looks at it. By the time he was sworn in as an NRC commissioner in June 2020, Hanson had done a five-year stint as Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) energy and water staffer […]