Vol. 7, No. 45

Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

‘Integrated team’ to hash out Savannah River Site’s transfer to nuclear-weapons agency

The Department of Energy could be prepared to start transferring control of the Savannah River Site to its semiautonomous nuclear-weapons agency in bits and pieces starting around 2023, a spokesperson at Washington headquarters said Monday. DOE’s Office of Environmental Management (EM), which owns the Aiken, S.C., site now, and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), […]
  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    IWTU startup seen in November, state says

    The Department of Energy intends in November to start up the long-delayed Integrated Waste Treatment Unit at the Idaho National Laboratory, the federal agency told state officials. That was the target DOE’s Office of Environmental Management gave officials with the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality on a conference call last week, Kim Custer, a senior […]

  • Defense & Military

    Report stresses contamination at school near Coldwater Creek cleanup site

    In news reminiscent of disclosure of radioactive contamination found at a school bordering the Department of Energy’s Piketon Site in Ohio, a citizens group in Missouri is citing a report of high levels of thorium and radium contamination on school grounds near a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cleanup site at the St. Louis Airport. […]

  • Decommissioning

    Despite Palisades closure, average summer nuclear outages lower than 2021, EIA says

    Although a Michigan nuclear power plant shut down earlier than expected, capacity losses from nuclear generation outages were lower this summer than they were the year prior, the government’s independent energy auditor said in a report last week. Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, which shut down May 20, removed around 770 gigawatts (GW) of electricity from […]

  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    Justice Department basing federal prosecutors in Richland, Wash.

    The U.S. Department of Justice is opening a U.S. Attorney’s Office branch in Richland, Wash., near the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, Vanessa Waldref, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington said Friday. “The number of cases prosecuted by the Richland Division of my office has risen significantly over the last two decades,” Waldref […]

  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    Correction

    The story “This week” [Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, Oct. 17] should have said that the two-day Hanford Advisory Board meeting starting this afternoon will be at the Three Rivers Convention Center, Room D 7016, West Grandridge Boulevard, Kennewick, Washington.

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