Vol. 1, No. 146 WIPP Personnel Back to Work Two Days After Latest Collapse
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NRC to Spend $700K to Update Yucca Reports
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Tuesday formalized plans to spend $700,000 of $1.27 million in its remaining Yucca Mountain funding to update certain reports on repository plans, so the agency can be in a better position should project licensing activities… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Exelon Explores Mo-99 Production at Byron Site
Power company Exelon plans to produce molybdenum-99 at its Byron Nuclear Generating Station in Illinois, potentially submitting a license amendment request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in early 2017. Mo-99 is an isotope that decays into technetium-99m,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Decommissioning
Centrus Expects Longer, Costlier D&D for ACP Facility at Piketon
It will take more than a year longer than lately expected for Centrus Energy Corp., of Bethesda, Md., to decontaminate and decommission the industrial-scale uranium enrichment demonstration in Pike County, Ohio, the company wrote In a third-quarter earnings statement… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]
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Non-Proliferation
NRC Assures Lawmaker it is Evaluating Radioactive Material Tracking
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) assured Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) it is working to boost the security and tracking of radioactive materials, in a Nov. 2 letter made public Wednesday in response to Schumer’s October request that the agency suspend approval… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
EM Facebook Page Hits Milestone With 1K Likes
The official Facebook for the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management hit 1,000 likes Friday. “Thank you to everyone who ‘likes’ EM’s national Facebook page,” the agency’s nuclear cleanup branch said on the social media site.… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Clarification
An article in Tuesday’s Weapons Complex Morning Briefing should have stated that companies are bidding for about $1 billion in dismantlement contract work at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The entire cost of decommissioning, including site restoration… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]