Vol. 9, No. 13 Weapons up, cleanup down in Biden’s 2025 budget request for DOE
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Transuranic Waste
Maintenance outage concludes, shipments to resume at WIPP
PHOENIX— A maintenance outage at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., which started Jan. 26, concluded Monday, a site manager said Monday. Shipments of defense-related transuranic waste to the underground salt mine should… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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International
Euro repositories will normalize nuclear waste; advanced reactor waste ‘different,’ Nuclear Energy Agency head says
PHOENIX — Nuclear waste repositories planned in Finland, Sweden and Switzerland will help the public accept that nuclear power is safe, the head of the Nuclear Energy Agency said here Monday. “This is going to help everybody,” William Magwood, director-general… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as […]
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International
Nuclear increasingly seen as part of worldwide carbon control strategy, IAEA chief says
PHOENIX— Contaminated old buildings at U.S. nuclear weapons sites are being torn down and, internationally, nuclear power is increasingly seen as a legitimate source of carbon-free electricity, participants in the Waste Management Symposia heard Monday. “For… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Defense Low-Level Waste
Concern persists that NRC’s coming rule change could leave states holding bag on Greater-Than-Class-C waste
PHOENIX — Unwilling states could be forced to regulate Greater-Than-Class-C waste under a pending federal rule change, the head of an interest group for states that regulate low-level radioactive waste said here. States that took on responsibility for regulating… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]
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Reindustrialization & Redevelopment
RFQ issued for solar power at Savannah River Site
The Savannah River Site in South Carolina is the latest Department of Energy nuclear property to issue a request for qualifications for carbon-free electricity projects. The request for qualifications published Monday March 11 by DOE particularly targets solar… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
INL gears up for MARVEL microreactor projects
The Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory is ready to proceed with installation of a small microreactor project capable of providing electric power for about 10 homes while providing the agency with the lab with a means of studying small reactor designs,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]