Vol. 7, No. 16 Work on competition for new nuke production contracts starting in 2023-24, NNSA says
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High-Level & Tank Waste
DOE asks Idaho for extra six months to start Idaho Integrated Waste Unit ops
The Department of Energy is asking state regulators for another six months to start operating a plant to treat high-level radioactive sodium-bearing waste at the Idaho National Laboratory. In a Sept. 29 letter, DOE asked the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality to extend the formal state milestone to March 31, 2023 to process sodium-bearing waste […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
Parts of Savannah River pit plant could be under construction by year’s end, site prime says
Subcontractors could begin building a planned plutonium pit factory at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., by Dec. 31, the site’s prime contractor said Monday in a press release. “Construction is expected to begin before the end of this year,” the Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions wrote in the release. “Approximately 2,500 skilled craft […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
DOE needs 10 years to site federal interim storage site, senior official says
The Department of Energy could have its own interim storage facility to store U.S. spent nuclear fuel within a decade or so, the Office of Nuclear Energy’s newly-minted head of waste disposition said during a webinar Monday. “We will have a federal interim storage facility within the decade, if not fifteen years, with a consent-based […]
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National Laboratories
Los Alamos field office talks strategic plan, waste issues
Representatives of the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup field office at the Los Alamos National Laboratory told the Northern New Mexico Advisory Board Monday the legacy waste contractor has started digging up corrugated metal pipes at Area G. In addition, the DOE’s Environmental Management field office should produce a strategic plan within the next 15 […]