Vol. 8, No. 112 Oral interviews for $30B Pantex landlord contract underway
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Nearly 700K gallons of Hanford tank waste prepared for solidification; cesium questions remain
A Department of Energy contractor has removed cesium from about 698,000 gallons of radioactive liquid waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, a DOE spokesperson said Tuesday. The fourth batch run at the Tank Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) project was completed Oct. 27, the DOE spokesperson said in an email response to an Exchange […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Disaster prep at Hanford pretreatment project needs work, DNFSB finds
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board wants improvement in emergency response preparation at tank waste pretreatment facility at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state. Amentum-led Washington River Protection Solutions went through a simulated tornado drill last month at the Tank Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) and the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board’s onsite […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
NuScale hopes to send small reactors for canceled project to another customer, CEO says
Six small modular reactors that NuScale, Portland, Ore., planned to use in a canceled generation project in the southwestern U.S. could be diverted to another customer, the company’s CEO said Tuesday. “I want to be able to take those modules and move them over to our next customer,” John Hopkins, president and CEO of NuScale, […]