Vol. 6, No. 38

Defense & Military

Biden Admin Review Muzzles Pentagon Head of Nuke Matters

A Pentagon official pulled out of a scheduled public briefing about plutonium pit production at the Savannah River Site on Monday because of a gag order imposed by a Biden Administration review, a group advising the South Carolina government on nuclear matters said. Drew Walter, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear matters, was […]
  • Cleanup & Remediation

    SRS Operator Expects Vaccinations of Site Workers to Quicken

    The head of the joint venture that manages the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site expects the rate of employee COVID-19 vaccinations to go from a trickle to a steady stream in the near future. “We have about 1,500 folks that have an appointment ready to go for their vaccinations,” within the next couple of […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    New SONGS Stakeholders Group Looking at Logistics for Commercial Interim Storage

    In a policy and organizing blitz on Monday, the co-owners of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station released a voluminous new report about the logistics of relocating the plant’s spent fuel and formed a new stakeholders group focused on the federal government. Action for Spent Fuel Solutions Now, spearheaded by Southern California Edison (SCE) and […]

  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    Vol. 2 of NRC Decommissioning Guidance Due Next Year, Agency Still Seeking Comments

    The final version of the next volume in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s long-awaited reactor decommissioning guidance is expected to be published “sometime next year,” an agency official said Monday. The NRC’s second of three rulemakings for decommissioning nuclear reactors is currently in the public comments phase, said Cynthia Barr, a senior analyst at the agency’s […]

  • Decommissioning

    North Wind Starts Demolition of Remaining DOE Structures at Santa Susana

    Contractor North Wind Portage has received final go-ahead to tear down the last few remaining contaminated buildings within the Department of Energy’s portion of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Ventura County, California. The California Department of Toxic Substances Control in a March 4 letter approved DOE plans for demolition of the remaining buildings at […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    DOE to Discuss Planned WIPP Transportation Contract March 30

    The Department of Energy plans a virtual pre-solicitation conference March 30 to share details on procurement for the new Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Transportation Services Contract. The DOE cleanup office plans to skip the draft-request-for-proposals stage and issue a final solicitation this spring, possibly in May. The DOE’s Office of Environmental Management will hold the […]

  • Naval Nuclear Propulsion

    Bittner is New General Manager for BWXT Lynchburg

    Jim Bittner is taking over as vice president and general manager for BWX Technologies’ Nuclear Operations Groups’ Lynchburg, Va., manufacturing facility, which manufactures reactors for naval aircraft carriers and submarines, the company announced Monday. Bittner will be in charge of about 2,200 employees in Lynchburg, which is one of the two commercial facilities certified by […]

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