Vol. 6, No. 35

Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle

DUF6 Work Still Suspended; Demo Work at Portsmouth Advances

The conversion of depleted uranium hexafluoride at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio and Paducah Site in Kentucky came to a stop in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and had yet to restart as of last week, federal and contractor representatives said during an online conference. Neither Zachary Lafontaine, DOE’s program […]
  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    Former NRC Chair Svinicki to Join UMich Faculty

    The former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission joined the University of Michigan as an adjunct professor, according to a press release. The university’s Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Science (NERS) department announced that Kristine Svinicki joined the faculty in a March 8 statement. Svinicki will help to “define the new directions for twenty-first-century nuclear engineering” […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Labor Department Sides With Whistleblowers in Appeal of 2016 Firings Over Hanford Computer Systems

    A Department of Labor board last week ruled against a Hanford contractor’s appeal of a 2016 decision favoring two whistleblowers at the former plutonium production site in Washington state. Labor’s Administrative Review Board on March 10 upheld federal Administrative Law Judge Christopher Larson’s 2016 ruling that Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) experts Kirtley Clem and Matthew […]

  • Budget & Policy

    This Week

    Here are some public events related to defense-nuclear matters that the ExchangeMonitor staff is tracking this week: 2021 March 17: The DOE Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board for Nevada meets virtually at 4 p.m. Pacific Time. 17: Hanford Advisory Board kicks off a virtual two-day meeting at 9 a.m. Pacific Time. 18: The DOE Environmental […]

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