Vol. 8, No. 117 NNSA extends deadline for Pantex bids to last week of September
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Cleanup & Remediation
New Hanford 5-year plan out soon; state, DOE still quiet about long-term changes to site’s cleanup deadlines
Months after a deal was announced, the Department of Energy and the Washington state Department of Ecology are still not ready to share details from recently-completed closed-door talks on future cleanup of the Hanford Site, though the feds are preparing to publish a new five-year plan for the former plutonium production property. Back in May, […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC staff recommend tossing environmentalists’ contention of Diablo Canyon fuel facility
A Nuclear Regulatory Commission board should toss an environmentalist group’s effort to block a license extension for Diablo Canyon Power Plant’s spent fuel storage facility, commission staff recommended Sept. 5. The group, San Luis Obsipo Mothers for Peace, had successfully used a legal technicality to steer the renewal application toward a hearing with an NRC […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Centrus says it will make HALEU in October
Centrus Energy Corp., Bethesda, Md., said Wednesday it will begin enriching energy-dense uranium fuel at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site near Piketon, Ohio, in October. Centrus is in the prove-it phase of a contract, awarded in 2022 and worth up to $1 billion over 10 years, to operate a cascade of 16 AC100M centrifuges […]
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Defense Low-Level Waste
Portsmouth makes first shipment of depleted uranium oxide to WCS
The Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio last week made its first rail shipment of depleted uranium oxide containers to the Waste Control Specialists disposal site in West Texas, DOE announced Tuesday. The shipment of 120 storage cylinders from the Mid-America Conversion Services depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion plant at the former gaseous diffusion […]
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Budget & Policy
A week after notional deadline, round two awardees for civilian nuclear credit program unknown
The Department of Energy did not make an Aug. 29 target to announce the winner, or winners, of the second round of a federal bailouts to buoy financially ailing nuclear power plants. A spokesperson for DOE’s Office of Grid Deployment did not immediately respond to a query asking how many applications the agency had received […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Small fire flares up, fizzles at Hanford, DNFSB says
A small fire ignited but did not last long last month at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state, according to a report from the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. The small blaze occurred at an area associated with heating up melter No. 1 at the Waste Treatment Immobilization Plant built by Bechtel, […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Boston Government Services hires COO
Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Boston Government Services, has hired Doug Freund in the newly-created post of chief operating officer, the Department of Energy contractor said Tuesday. Freund was most recently senior vice president for Kiewit Nuclear Solutions, where he was responsible for markets and strategy, Boston Government Services said in a press release. In addition, Freund […]