Vol. 7, No. 26

High-Level & Tank Waste

IWTU startup targeted for June

The on-again, off-again demonstration run of the Department of Energy’s Integrated Waste Treatment Unit at the Idaho National Laboratory should be on again in June, according to a federal nuclear-safety overseer. After an outage during March and April, the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) was to begin heating up in early May, according to a […]
  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    Outage kicks off at DWPF at Savannah River Site

    The Defense Waste Processing Facility at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina has entered an outage this month as it prepares to switch over from formic acid to glycolic acid by October. Going with glycolic acid at the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) should lead to more efficient conversion of radioactive […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Important deadlines loom for mercury, Portsmouth, Paducah RFPs

    Bids for Long-term Management and Storage of elemental mercury are due to the Department of Energy by 4 p.m. Eastern Time Wednesday, while questions on the last week’s solicitations for new contracts at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio and the Paducah Site in Kentucky are due a week later, the agency said. Since DOE’s Office […]

  • Advanced Nuclear & SMRs

    SMRs will increase global waste volumes, Stanford study finds

    Results of a recent Stanford University-led study ran counter to the nuclear industry’s claims that advanced reactors won’t significantly add to radioactive waste stockpiles around the world, the university said in a press release published Monday. According to Stanford’s statement, the study — due to eb published Monday in the academic journal Proceedings of the […]

  • Budget & Policy

    This Week

    Here are some events related to defense and civilian matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking this week: June 01: Meeting. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “Transformation at the NRC—Sustaining Progress as Modern, Risk-Informed Regulator.” In person at NRC headquarters, Commissioners’ Conference Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Md. and streaming online at 10 a.m. Eastern time. 02: […]

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