Vol. 7, No. 71 ‘Irresponsible’ to advance nuclear technology without addressing waste, NRC commissioner Crowell says
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High-Level & Tank Waste
DOE investigates source of contamination at Hanford pretreatment project
The Department of Energy is investigating the source of dried radioactive waste found near a pipe-fitting at the Tank-Side Cesium Removal project at the Hanford Site in Washington state, a spokesperson said last week. The ongoing review could show if there is a leak in the process piping in the Tank Side Cesium Removal system […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Locals must still be heard after Savannah River handover, panel chair says
Local residents must retain a voice in what goes on at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina after federal responsibility for the complex shifts to the semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration in 2025, the head of the Citizens Advisory Board said Monday. Last month, DOE confirmed its Office of Environmental Management […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
Aiken City citizens can weigh in on federal plutonium-settlement millions after Thanksgiving
Starting after Thanksgiving, citizens of the city of Aiken, S.C., can give the city council their two cents about how to spend $25 million in federal settlement money the city got because of a federal lawsuit involving the Department of Energy’s canceled plutonium recycling plant at the Savannah River Site, local media reported Monday. Aiken […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NRC greenlights work on rule giving tribal governments advance notice of rad materials shipments
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a recent vote gave agency staff permission to start work on a proposed rulemaking that would require licensees shipping highly-radioactive materials to notify tribal governments about such shipments. NRC’s five-member executive committee voted unanimously Oct. 17 to approve the proposed rulemaking activity, according to agency documents published Thursday. The staff […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Army Corps briefing scheduled on Jana Elementary sampling
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District plans a community briefing Thursday to discuss early results from sampling for radioactive contamination at Jana Elementary School in Florissant, Mo., the Corps announced Monday. The St. Louis District’s Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) is hosting a town hall-style meeting, Nov. 17, from 5-8 […]
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Naval Nuclear Propulsion
Couple gets 19+, 21+ years in prison for trying to sell Virginia-class submarine secrets
A former Navy employee and his wife will go to prison for more than 19 and more than 21 years, respectively, for conspiring to sell nuclear-submarine secrets to a nation reported to be Brazil, a federal judge ordered recently. Jonathan Toebbe, 44, a former Q-cleared Naval Reactors employee who smuggled technical data about Virginia-class attack […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
NuScale boosts revenue, trims losses, sees itself well ahead of competition in small-reactor market
Advanced reactor developer NuScale Power Corp. is still losing money but is otherwise in excellent financial shape, with a $ 268.6 million war chest, short-term investments of $50 million and no debt, NuScale CEO John Hopkins and CFO Chris Colbert said in a teleconference with analysts. In the third quarter of 2022 that ended Sept. […]