Parties Await SRS Prime RFP; Jacobs Group Prepares for Transition
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Plutonium Pit Production
Senate Authorizers Demand NNSA Plan for Treatment of Modernization Waste
The Senate Armed Services Committee has demanded that the National Nuclear Security Administration come up with a “comprehensive strategy” for disposing of nuclear waste created by the ongoing 30-year refresh of U.S. nuclear weapons. The provision is part of the committee’s fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the full text of which the […]
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Decommissioning
Texas Nuke Waste Ban ‘A Playing Field for Lawyers,’ Vermont Yankee Citizens Group Hears
A new Texas ban on high-level nuclear waste could be “potentially quite a playing field for lawyers coming up,” a member of an interstate nuclear waste compact told a citizens advisory panel in Vermont recently. The Lone Star state put the anti-nuclear-waste law on the books earlier this month and now, Austin and Washington must […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Middle DP Road Contamination Poses Little Risk to Human Health, DOE Says
As of last week, the legacy cleanup contractor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico had excavated most potholes along a radiologically contaminated stretch of Middle DP Road in Los Alamos County, N.M., and believes the attendant risk to human health is low, a manager with the Department of Energy told a meeting […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
This Week
Here are some events related to civilian-nuclear matters that the Exchange Monitor staff is tracking this week. September 27 – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is hosting a two-part virtual meeting on its environmental justice review. Information on virtual access available here. Starts 1 p.m. Eastern time. 28 – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is hosting an in-person meeting on […]