Vol. 6, No. 46 With U.S. Shutdown Possible, Feds, Contractors Make Contingency Plans
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Dem Lawmakers Introduce ‘Nuclear Waste Task Force’ in New Bill
A bill introduced in Congress Tuesday would create a task force to evaluate a loophole in federal law that the measure’s sponsors say would enable consent-based siting for a federal nuclear waste storage facility, according to a press release. If it became law, the “Nuclear Waste Task Force Act,” unveiled Tuesday in the House by […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
S.C. State Senator From SRS Area Wants 80-20 Split in Plutonium Settlement Money
The minority leader of the South Carolina Senate on Tuesday made an opening bid in the statewide tug-of-war over hundreds of millions of dollars worth of federal money up for grabs from last year’s plutonium settlement with Columbia: $100 million for the state, $425 million for seven counties near the Savannah River Site. “That would […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Enviros Get Extra Time for Their Next Move in Case Against ISP Site
A federal court last week gave anti-nuclear groups two more weeks to coordinate next steps in their lawsuit challenging a recently-licensed interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in Texas. The groups, which include Beyond Nuclear and the Sierra Club, now have until Oct. 12 to move forward in their case against the proposed Interim […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
Enterprise Assessments Opening Investigation Into Summer Flood at LANL Plutonium Facility
The Department of Energy’s Environmental Assessments office is opening an investigation into the flooding of Los Alamos’ PF-4 plutonium facility earlier this year, an event precipitated by an untrained worker operating a wet vacuum. DOE’s internal watchdog notified lab director Thomas Mason of the impending investigation in a Sept. 23 letter posted online recently. In […]
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Defense Low-Level Waste
Settlement Over Y-12 Waste Shipments, COVID Highlight Annual Nevada Site Report
The ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and a June legal settlement between the state and the Department of Energy to prevent mislabeled radioactive waste shipments from again ending up at the Nevada National Security Site dominate the site’s just released 2020 environmental report. The settlement reached this summer calls upon DOE to increase the […]