Vol. 6, No. 13

Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

NRC Won’t Complete Safety Review for Proposed Holtec Spent Fuel Storage Site by May

A federal safety review for a proposed interim storage site for spent nuclear fuel won’t be ready by the previously scheduled date, according to a recent document published by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The safety evaluation report for Holtec International’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as […]
  • Transuranic Waste

    WIPP Managers Seek Quick Ramp-up in Shipments Post-Outage

    Bosses at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., are shooting for a sharp uptick in monthly transuranic waste shipments to the underground salt mine after an ongoing maintenance outage wraps up in April, according to a recent… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    Idaho Remains Preferred Shipper to WIPP, State says in Settlement Update

    The Department of Energy is meeting its commitment to keep the Idaho National Laboratory as the top-priority shipper to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico but still needs to get cracking on other directives from a 2019 update to the key legal settlement… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Lack of Urgency Remains Around Permanent Storage, Former DOE Nuke Chiefs Say

    Locating a permanent repository for nuclear waste is “not a crisis,” and the government should be deliberate about community engagement throughout the process, a couple former Department of Energy nuclear leaders said during a discussion last week. Still, the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    NNSA Virtual Job Fair Scheduled for Wednesday

    The National Nuclear Security Administration was scheduled to host its latest online job fair on Wednesday, the semi-autonomous Department of Energy nuclear-weapons agency said. The civilian weapons steward has 3,000 openings across the nuclear-security enterprise,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]

  • Budget & Policy

    This Week

    Here are some public events related to defense- and civilian-nuclear matters that the ExchangeMonitor staff is tracking this week: March 29 – April 2 – Media reported that the Biden administration will release its so-called “skinny budget” proposal… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

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