Vol. 1, No. 144 Hanford Contractor Seals Deal for for Radioactive Capsule Storage
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Commercial Decommissioning
SONGS Panel to Meet Thursday
The San Onofre Community Engagement Panel is set to meet Thursday to discuss the past three years of preparation to decommission the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, as well as plans moving forward. Bidders for the estimated $4.4 billion project are Team Holtec, a team led by Bechtel, and an AECOM/EnergySolutions partnership. Plant majority owner Southern […]
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National Laboratories
DNFSB Won’t Oversee Sandia Labs’ Mixed Waste Landfill
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board has determined it has jurisdiction over the Mixed Waste Landfill at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, but will forgo oversight of the facility, DNFSB Chairman Joyce Connery said in an Oct. 27 letter to a nongovernmental watchdog organization. The closed landfill covers 2.6 acres at the Department of […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC Issues Draft EIS for Missouri Isotope Facility
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the radioisotope production facility that Northwest Medical Isotopes plans to build in Columbia, Mo. Northwest has submitted construction application to the NRC to build a $70 million, privately funded facility at the Discovery Ridge research park at the University of Missouri Research […]
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National Laboratories
NNSA Labs Win R&D 100 Awards
Several projects at National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) laboratories were among the winners last week of R&D Magazine 2016 R&D 100 Awards. The awards honor 100 innovative technologies from the past year. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California won an award for its GLO Transparent Ceramic Scintillator, which involves the nondestructive imaging of the 3D […]
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Non-Proliferation
Zerbo Appointed to Second Term as CTBTO Chief
Lassina Zerbo has been appointed to a second four-year term as executive secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) Organization. Zerbo assumed his current role in August 2013, having previously served as the director of the organization’s International Data Center. In announcing the news, the Vienna, Austria-based organization highlighted […]