Vol. 8, No. 51 Hanford tank winner’s registration lapse ‘not a triviality,’ feds tell court
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Vitrification & Grout
Hanford WTP melter heat-up could resume within weeks, White says
Crews at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state are doing electrical testing, setting the stage to again start heating up the first melter at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, the agency’s acting nuclear cleanup boss said Monday. “At Hanford we resumed our electrical testing for the vitrification plant,” William (Ike) White, […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Holtec says funding fight for Palisades restart could be won or lost by July
Holtec International will know by June or July whether it will get the funds it wants to restart the shuttered Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Calvert, Mich., executives told Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff Wednesday. It was the most specific public timetable Holtec has set yet for the full-court fundraising press the company initiated to restart […]
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International
House committee easily sends Russian uranium ban to floor
The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would ban imports of Russian uranium by 2028, sending the measure to the House floor. Most Democrats on the committee opposed H.R. 1042, which passed by a vote of 29-21. In testimony to the committee this month, Jennifer Granholm, the secretary of energy, […]
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Life Extension Programs
Sluggish plutonium-pit production tells allies and adversaries U.S. nuke modernization ‘not important,” expert says
Production of tritium and plutonium pits could prove a significant limiting factor in the introduction of a new nuclear weapons delivery method like a sea-launched cruise missile and other attempts by the U.S. to beef up its nuclear arsenal to counter Russia and China, according to an official at the National Strategic Research Institute. Christopher […]
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Budget & Policy
DNFSB could drop to two members later this year post-Roberson
Jessie Hill Roberson, a fixture in the public and private sectors of the nuclear field for more than 30 years, plans to exit the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board this October when her latest term expires, a board spokesperson said Monday. The exit of the longtime nuclear hand could, temporarily at least, leave only two […]
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Budget & Policy
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