Vol. 6, No. 44

Cleanup & Remediation

‘Holistic’ Talks on Hanford Milestones Between State, Feds Gather Steam

The Department of Energy, Washington State and the Environmental Protection Agency are meeting more frequently these days to negotiate changes to legally binding Hanford cleanup deadlines that longstanding technical challenges — and later, COVID-19 — may have… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
  • Cleanup & Remediation

    DOE Reply on Hanford Contractor Issue Expected Out Soon

    The Department of Energy could formally reply to subcontractor complaints at the Hanford Site in Washington state “within the next few days or the next few weeks,” Brian Vance, the top manager at the facility said Wednesday. The DOE Office of Environmental… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]

  • Commercial Decommissioning

    Watchdog Group Asks NRC To Hold TMI Sale

    An environmental watchdog group that previously raised concerns about environmental law violations in the sale of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station is now formally asking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to pump the brakes on the transaction, according… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Texas House to Hear Proposed Bill Banning HLW, Spent Fuel, Next Week

    Next week, a committee of the Texas state House of Representatives will consider a bill that would ban storage of high-level nuclear waste, including spent fuel from power plants, in the Lone Star state. H.B. 2692, proposed earlier this month by state Rep. Brooks… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    False High Dose at Pantex This Year Caused by Lost Badge Near Linear Accelerator

    It can happen on submarines, it can happen in the mail and it can happen if you fly a lot: a dose big enough to keep you out of radiological areas for a while. At the Pantex Plant earlier this year, it happened because someone left their dosimeter near a linear… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Bechtel Patriarch Dies at Age 95

    Virginia-based Bechtel announced in a press release this week that Stephen Bechtel Jr., who served three decades as CEO of the privately-held company that bears his family’s name, died Monday at age 95. In 1960 Stephen Bechtel Jr. became CEO of the company started… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must […]

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