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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Wash. State Appoints New Head for Nuclear Waste Program
The state of Washington has picked an experienced environmental law attorney to lead the Hanford Site regulatory work at the Department of Ecology’s Nuclear Waste Program. Alex Smith will start work in the Richland office as program manager on April 18, replacing Jane Hedges, who retired at the end of February. Tom Tebbs will continue […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE Says It Sent Contract to Court Advisor in Hanford Cleanup Case
While the Energy Department had reservations about allowing a Washington state employee to act as a court adviser in a recently decided federal case over cleanup deadlines at the Hanford Site, the agency said it has not prevented that adviser’s court-ordered payment. That is according to a March 16 filing in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington, […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Hanford Tour Registration Opens April 5
Registration for popular site-wide Hanford tours focusing on environmental cleanup opens at 9 a.m. April 5 at www.hanford.gov. This year only 15 tours are being offered, after a stop at B Reactor was removed from the tour now that the reactor is part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. Separate tours of the reactor […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Costumes, Signs Welcome at Tuesday DNFSB Hearing on Los Alamos
For those planning to attend Tuesday’s public hearing of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) to protest — rather than discuss — nuclear waste at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), good news: official DNFSB guidelines for the event permit both costumes and signs, albeit in moderation. The five-member DNFSB will meet in Santa […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
States Want 10-Year, Not 60-Year, Decommissioning
Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York on Friday co-signed a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission asking the agency to eliminate its 60-year option for nuclear power plant decommissioning and require operators to complete the work within a decade. Current NRC regulations allow decommissioning plants to opt for SAFSTOR, which allows 60 years for decommissioning […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Entergy Opposes Mass. Decommissioning Bills
Entergy, owner of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, said Monday that it will work within the political process to oppose bills gaining momentum in Massachusetts that would allow state discretion over $25 million in annual Entergy decommissioning accounts. The state legislature’s Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities, and Energy on Wednesday recommended approval of the bills. […]
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Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad
Navy Test Launches 3 Trident II D5 Missiles
Three unarmed Trident II (D5) submarine-launched ballistic missiles were launched last week as part of a Follow-on Commander’s Evaluation Test (FCET), following two intercontinental ballistic missile launches last month and an air-launched cruise missile nuclear weapon system evaluation program test, the U.S. Strategic Command announced Monday. “These six nominal launches, all within the past 30 […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Savannah River Waste Processing Facility Turns 20 This Month
The month of March marks the 20th anniversary of turning high-level liquid radioactive waste into more safely storable glass tubes at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C., the agency said Monday. The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF), a vitrification plant that mixes liquid waste with molten glass, started piping in waste on March […]