Vol. 7, No. 74 Bechtel group’s WIPP proposal underbid Huntington rival
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP prime gets $890K fee deduction after workplace accident results in amputation
The Department of Energy has deducted about $890,000 in fee award from the prime contractor for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. after a worker lost part of two fingers in a 2021 accident. The agency’s Enterprise Assessments’ Office of Enforcement issued a preliminary notice of violation of worker health and safety standards […]
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Decommissioning
Mass gov cans Pilgrim wastewater commission
The governor of Massachusetts last week struck down a provision in a recently-passed economic development bill aimed at blocking proposed wastewater discharge from a nuclear power plant under decommissioning, saying that it would step on the federal government’s toes. Although Gov. Charlie Baker (D) on Thursday signed the state’s sweeping economic development package, he vetoed […]
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National Laboratories
Masks back on at LANL
The Los Alamos National Laboratory again ordered employees and visitors to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 after transmission rates in the area rose, according to an internal lab message. “COVID-19 community levels have moved to high in Los Alamos and Santa Fe Counties,” reads the message, the text of which the Exchange […]
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Decommissioning
NorthStar wraps up GTCC storage at Vermont Yankee
The company in charge of decommissioning a nuclear power plant in Vermont has finished packaging the last of the site’s low-level waste, a spokesperson said Tuesday. NorthStar, which is currently dismantling Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station, “has reached another milestone” in the decommissioning process, as the site’s Greater-Than-Class-C waste “has been loaded into a dry […]
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Budget & Policy
Disgraced Ohio politician wants federal evidence excluded from nuke-related bribery case
Ohio’s former state House speaker wants to exclude statements by a dead alleged accomplice from his upcoming federal trial for bribery related to two financially struggling reactors. Attorneys for ex-speaker Larry Householder (R) also want a federal judge to ban from his trial references to a separate but related bribery scandal involving the former head […]