Vol. 7, No. 65 Court won’t intervene to help Los Alamos COVID objectors in arbitration at lab
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Cleanup & Remediation
Army Corps finds school near FUSRAP site safe from radiation
Sampling overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers around the Jana Elementary School in Florissant, Mo., has not turned up evidence of radiation above background levels, the Corps’ St. Louis District Office said Wednesday. “From a radiological standpoint, the school is safe,” Col. Kevin Golinghorst, St. Louis District commander, said in a press release. […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
DC court to hear oral arguments in interim storage case
A federal court in Washington was scheduled Thursday to hear oral arguments in a joint lawsuit against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over a proposed commercial storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in west Texas. Thursday’s oral argument in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals should prove an opportunity for a coalition of anti-nuclear groups, including […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
TVA working approvals for more tritium production
The Tennessee Valley Authority was in the process of securing approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to increase production of tritium for nuclear weapons in one of the company’s reactors by November 2024, according to its latest annual earnings report. That date, disclosed in the authority’s latest 10-k filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Plaintiffs suing Portsmouth contractor want sampling data from Pike County neighbor
Plaintiffs suing current and past Department of Energy contractors at the Portsmouth Site in Pike County, Ohio asked a U.S. District Court this week to force a resident near the nuclear site to turn over information she collected over time with her own private air monitors. Attorneys for Ursula McGlone and several other residents living […]