Vol. 8, No. 36 NRC readies environmental review on stranded Los Alamos waste at WCS
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Vitrification & Grout
Contractor plans steady climb to double SWPF throughput
The Department of Energy aims to use an advanced new solvent by the end of fiscal 2025 to improve the numbers at the Salt Waste Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, a cleanup contractor boss told a federal advisory board Tuesday. Other glitches at the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) should […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Tritium-rod irradiating Watts Bar Unit 1 reactor resumes operation following scheduled refueling
Another power-generation cycle is underway at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 1, one of two reactors in which rods that help the National Nuclear Security Administration top off the tritium reservoirs of U.S. nuclear weapons are irradiated. The plant returned to operation on May 12 after a scheduled shutdown for maintenance […]
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Budget & Policy
Uranium legislation week begins with GOP proposal to ban imports of Russian uranium
Legislation to encourage domestic production of nuclear fuel are on the move this week in Congress, and the movement began Tuesday in House subcommittee, which easily passed a bill to prohibit imports of Russian uranium by Jan. 1, 2028. Summing up Republican sentiment H.R. 1042, the “Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act,” Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio) […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
To save space, ARPA-E seeks information on transmutation of nuclear waste
The Department of Energy wants to hear by June 16 from entities doing research and development on technology to transmute nuclear waste into other things, the agency wrote Monday in a request for information. DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) seeks “novel and disruptive technologies that are early in the R&D cycle” and […]
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International
U.S., Canadian org, sign agreement to share information about nuclear waste management
The Department of Energy and Canadian nonprofit Nuclear Waste Management Organization signed an agreeement to cooperate on used nuclear fuel management, the Canadian organization announced Tuesday. “The agreement reflects the U.S. and Canada’s shared commitment to safely managing used nuclear fuel, including that from small modular reactors,” the Nuclear Waste Management Organization wrote in a […]