Vol. 6, No. 61 DOE Guidance Calls for Immediate Addition of COVID Vaccine Mandate to Site Contracts
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Contracts & Procurement
Oak Ridge Cleanup Award Expected by New Year’s, DOE Says
The Department of Energy should award a new long-term contract for cleanup of the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee by the end of the year, agency officials told an annual conference sponsored by the Energy Technology and Environmental Business Association Wednesday. Angela Watmore, the acting deputy assistant secretary for acquisition and project management for the […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Washington Lawmakers Ask Biden to Drop Challenge to Hanford Law
More than 60 members of the Washington state legislature have asked President Joe Biden to reconsider the Department of Justice’s challenge to an “overwhelmingly bipartisan state law to provide industrial insurance coverage to workers made sick” while doing… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Non-Proliferation
NNSA Nonproliferation Nominee Gets Senate Confirmation Hearing
The Senate Armed Services Committee was set Thursday to question the Joe Biden administration’s nominee to fill the final Senate-confirmed leadership post at the National Nuclear Security Administration. Biden nominated Corey Hinderstein to deputy administration… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]
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Decommissioning
Spent Fuel Transfer Starting This Year at Duane Arnold, NRC Says
The company decommissioning the Duane Arnold Duane Arnold Energy Center plans to start moving spent fuel from the shuttered plant’s reactor to dry storage this year, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspector said Wednesday evening. NextEra should have the fuel… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC, EPRI Renew Co-Op Research Agreement
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and a top electric power research group are renewing an unfunded five-year research agreement aimed at addressing nuclear plant aging and other challenges facing the aging fleet, according to a memo published Wednesday. In the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
No One Hurt in Hanford Truck Fire
Nobody was hurt Monday morning when a truck caught fire in the 200 East Area of the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state, according to a notice posted on the website for the federal property. The fire occurred under the hood of the truck loaded… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
CORRECTION
The article “Over Half of NRC Employees Vaccinated, NRC Says” (Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, October 05, 2021) should have said that a full return to work at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is scheduled for Nov. 7 and that some staff are already working… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be […]