Vol. 7, No. 28 Cleanup spending at Los Alamos increases in DOE fiscal 2023 request
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Budget & Policy
WH teases Nuclear Posture Review in official one pager; no-first use a goner
A one-page Department of Defense fact sheet issued this week appeared to confirm that President Joe Biden would not declare a no-first use of nuclear weapons policy. “As long as nuclear weapons exist, the fundamental role of U.S. nuclear weapons is to deter nuclear attack on the United States, our allies, and partners,” reads the […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Mercury treatment plant at Oak Ridge 40% complete, DOE says
Construction of the 200 Mercury Treatment Facility at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee is now 40% complete, an agency spokesperson said by email Wednesday. The project includes building a treatment facility, headworks facility, and a 3,000-foot pipeline connecting the two facilities. “Crews are currently installing floors and walls at the treatment […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC environmental justice report on the commissioners’ desk
A report on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s environmental justice efforts based on a months-long review process is ready for agency leadership to look over, a spokesperson said Wednesday. The environmental justice review team, led by Gregory Suber, deputy chief of NRC’s operating reactor licensing division, sent its findings to the commission Tuesday, an agency spokesperson […]
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Decommissioning
Palisades sale hearing request still pending at NRC
The sale of a Michigan nuclear power plant could be final before Independence Day so an anti-nuclear group and the state attorney general have only about three months to get a public hearing on the transaction with the NRC — which has yet to say yay or nay, an agency spokesperson said Wednesday. Hearing requests […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Deadline extended for minority colleges response to Savannah River Lab sources sought
Minority-serving institutions now have until April 8 to file expressions of interest with the contractor running the Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina, according to a procurement update Tuesday. The prior deadline was March 25 for Minority Serving Institutions, as defined by the Department of Education, to respond to the initial […]