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- $45B Hanford award spawns 3 court cases so far; next BWXT filing due April 22
- Environmental Management creates tech officer silo, another change troubles ECA
- DNFSB touts 2023 safety work in report to Congress
- Paducah, West Valley prepare for solar eclipse
- Hanford sends drums of sodium waste to Tennessee for treatment
- UCOR balks at providing vax records for non-litigants as COVID cases advance
- Down to one plaintiff, trial set this month in COVID case against ORNL prime
- Deadline extended on Nevada Clean Energy RFQ until tax day
- SRS solar developer faces August deadline for power line hookup
- Extra week granted in Deepwater FUSRAP cleanup solicitation
- Federal judge considers next step in lawsuit over Rocky Flats Refuge trail
- DOE plans DUF6 extension; Spent fuel hearing set; ex-EM Los Alamos boss takes NNSA post and more
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- After Texas case, Fifth Circuit also throws out Holtec license for New Mexico interim storage
- Environmentalists’ S.C. pit lawsuit to be briefed by late June; court leery of further extensions
- Jaramillo out as Jacobs CFO
- Down to one plaintiff, trial set this month in COVID case against ORNL prime
- DNFSB touts 2023 safety work in report to Congress
- Flood watch in place near Portsmouth Site
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- AtkinsRéalis team again protests $45B Hanford tanks contract award
- New Mexico says not so fast to shipments of stranded transuranic waste to WIPP from WCS
- Hanford landlord asks court to throw out Justice Department False Claims Act case
- White House seeks $47.2M for DNFSB in fiscal 2025
- UCOR receives extension to reply to wrongful discharge case
- Development group favors new nuclear, more local control of land around Hanford Site
- Second Hanford vit plant melter reaches 2,100 degrees
- Fired worker tells Sixth Circuit UCOR lacks sovereign immunity
- Companies in electric power, nuclear enrichment, others attend WIPP clean energy day
- Easy does it: Speed cameras planned at Los Alamos
- Wrap Up: LANL electric comments reviewed; Oak Ridge list posted; DOE awards $24.7M worth of grants and more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 13
Read Full Issue- No possibility of settling enviros’ suit against S.C. pit plant
- NNSA No. 2 Rose to leave agency
- Los Alamos lab prepares responses to electric upgrade comments
- Easy does it: Speed cameras planned at Los Alamos
- Second minibus bill signed; has Price-Anderson extension; 2024 federal budgets set
- Another spending package passes without radiation act extension
- White House seeks $47.2M for DNFSB in fiscal 2025
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- Holtec conditionally gets its $1.5 billion loan from DOE to restart Palisades
- NRC staff think they can finish one Holtec license amendment request to restart Palisades by March ‘25
- White House nominates Hanson for five more years at NRC
- San Luis Obispo County Board narrowly approves resolution supporting Diablo Canyon
- Second minibus bill signed; has Price-Anderson extension; 2024 federal budgets set
- Round up: Michigan nuclear legislation; Sellafield skip; U.K. cyber trouble; more
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- Hanford landlord asks court to throw out Justice Department False Claims Act case
- WIPP prime defends handling of elevator shaft incident
- White House nominates Hanson for five more years at NRC
- Local government to formally support Diablo Canyon life-extension
- White House seeks $47.2M for DNFSB in fiscal 2025
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- Second minibus bill signed; has Price-Anderson extension; 2024 federal budgets set
- Another spending package passes without radiation act extension
- Development group favors new nuclear, more local control of land around Hanford Site
- Los Alamos lab prepares responses to electric upgrade comments
- Easy does it: Speed cameras planned at Los Alamos
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- Hanford remediation could extend to nearly 22nd century
- Granholm fields House lawmaker questions on Hanford, NNSA
- Subs, small businesses short-changed from Bechtel vit contract, OIG finds
- Minibus appropriations bill with Defense Department funds has Price-Anderson extension
- Hanford lays groundwork for resumption of TRU shipments to WIPP
- WIPP works on defining legacy waste, finishing big infrastructure projects
- Federal judge again rejects adding plaintiffs to current UCOR COVID case
- UCOR inks multiyear deal contract with building trades union
- In revised complaint, plaintiff Shaw points to cancer rates around Portsmouth Site
- DOE rejects deadline extension for Portsmouth-Paducah tech support RFP
- WIPP should have reported when 2 miners were stuck in hoist, board says
- DOE agrees to install mobile showers at Hanford disposal site under settlement
- Wrap Up: EM forecasts only 2 RFPs this summer; Ex-Hanford EPA boss dies in accident; Idaho DOE managers to brief congress; and more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 12
Read Full Issue- UPF rebaseline underway done ‘soon’ secretary of energy tells appropriators
- NNSA seeks study contractor for effort to mature Oak Ridge defense refining tech
- Defense Secretary ‘Optimistic’ Congress will act on Ukraine supplemental approps bill
- Minibus appropriations bill with Defense Department funds has Price-Anderson extension
- Former Veolia manager takes new job with Alpha
- Wrap up: U.N. Security Council on nukes; Aiken city Pu settlement spending; Knoxville PD woes; more
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- Secretary of energy hopeful for fast Russian uranium ban
- Still no Yucca, secretary of energy says, again, in budget hearing
- Fifth Circuit will not give NRC another chance to prove commercial interim storage is legal
- Minibus appropriations bill with Defense Department funds has Price-Anderson extension
- Work starts on DOE’s Fortis spent fuel rail car
- Former Veolia manager takes new job with Alpha
- Compromise ‘24 budget skips debate on consolidated interim storage consent
- Round up: No NORM for TCQE, activist lawsuit claims; AUKUS waste debate
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- Hanford remediation could extend to nearly 22nd century
- Granholm fields House lawmaker questions on Hanford, NNSA
- Secretary of Energy hopeful for fast Russian uranium ban
- UCOR inks multiyear deal contract with building trades union
- Defense Secretary ‘Optimistic’ Congress will act on Ukraine supplemental approps bill
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- Publisher’s Note
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- Granholm due in Congress Wednesday morning for season’s first budget hearing
- WIPP works on defining legacy waste, finishing big infrastructure projects
- Hanford lays groundwork for resumption of TRU shipments to WIPP
- Tree-cutting, groundwater study underway for new Oak Ridge landfill
- Compromise ‘24 budget skips debate on consolidated interim storage consent
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- NNSA seeks study contractor for effort to mature Oak Ridge defense enrichment tech
- DOE rejects deadline extension for Portsmouth-Paducah tech support RFP
- Work starts on DOE’s Fortis spent fuel rail car
- In revised complaint, plaintiff Shaw points to cancer rates around Portsmouth Site
- Federal judge again rejects adding plaintiffs to current UCOR COVID case
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- Fifth Circuit will not give NRC another chance to prove commercial interim storage is legal
- WIPP should have reported when 2 miners were stuck in hoist
- Idaho DOE managers to brief congress on spent fuel plans
- DOE agrees to install mobile showers at Hanford disposal site under settlement
- Former Veolia manager takes new job with Alpha
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- DOE request would trim 2025 cleanup budget, increase Hanford spend
- Economic development plays big role in Waste Management sessions
- IWTU hits a re-start snag, crews look for a fix
- DOE hopes to select early clean power projects this fiscal year
- Power companies look to set up shop next at Portsmouth Site
- EM2 Avery wants ‘laser’ focus on cleanup while backing ‘public good’
- No. 2 cleanup boss Avery understands frustration with procurement pace
- Maintenance outage concludes, shipments to resume at WIPP
- Nuclear increasingly seen as part of worldwide carbon control strategy, IAEA chief says
- Dilute and dispose looks to boost shipments to WIPP this year
- Second melter heats up at Hanford vitrification plant
- Six labs receive $27M for Hanford liquid waste research; Congress wants research briefing
- Wrap Up: ‘Better contracting’ sought by EM; Washington Ecology picks new nuclear boss; SRS adds electric vehicles and more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 11
Read Full Issue- NNSA seeks $1B boost for fiscal year 2025; Savannah River pit estimate soars
- Dilute and dispose looks to boost shipments to WIPP this year
- Air Force budgets $3.7 billion for Sentinel in fiscal 2025; Requirements changes possible in fiscal 2026
- House members working on partisan Rosatom sanctions bills
- Savannah River adds to electric vehicle fleet
- Round up: New New START resolution; Jenkins’ tough audience; Changes at local pro-nuke board
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- Start of conceptual design work nearing for federal interim storage facility, official says
- Nuclear Energy budget would fall in 2025 under White House request
- Concern persists that NRC’s coming rule change could leave states holding bag on Greater-Than-Class-C waste
- Euro repositories will normalize nuclear waste; advanced reactor waste ‘different,’ Nuclear Energy Agency head says
- EnergySolutions acquires Cabrera Services
- Nuke waste review board tells DOE to take harder look at long term dry-cask storage
- DOE spent-fuel head to speak at congressional spent fuel caucus meeting
- Round up: Diablo Canyon licensing board go; Ex-Nevada nuke agency official says kill Yucca even more; Ode to consent based siting
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- No. 2 cleanup boss Avery understands frustration with procurement pace
- Start of conceptual design work nearing for federal interim storage facility, official says
- DOE spent-fuel head to speak at congressional spent fuel caucus meeting
- Dilute and dispose looks to boost shipments to WIPP this year
- NRC wants $42M for Palisades restart
- DOE hopes to select early clean power projects this fiscal year
- Savannah River adds to electric vehicle fleet
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- Weapons up, cleanup down in Biden’s 2025 budget request for DOE
- Maintenance outage concludes, shipments to resume at WIPP
- Euro repositories will normalize nuclear waste; advanced reactor waste ‘different,’ Nuclear Energy Agency head says
- Nuclear increasingly seen as part of worldwide carbon control strategy, IAEA chief says
- Concern persists that NRC’s coming rule change could leave states holding bag on Greater-Than-Class-C waste
- RFQ issued for solar power at Savannah River Site
- INL gears up for MARVEL microreactor projects
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- Top brass from DOE cleanup office, international nuke officials headline Waste Management
- Six labs receive $27M for Hanford liquid waste research; Congress wants research briefing
- EnergySolutions acquires Cabrera Services
- Nuke waste review board tells DOE to take harder look at long term dry-cask storage
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- Hanford tanks would make BWXT-led groups environmental primes at Hanford, SRS
- Spending at DOE’s big nuclear cleanup sites inch upward in compromise bill
- Bechtel wins 92% of potential high-level waste fee for 2023 vit plant work
- Draft RFP issued for potential $90-million EM tech support contract
- Down to two members, DNFSB still seeking quorum
- DNFSB makes senior staff promotions
- Senate passes RECA extension, Biden plans to sign
- Qualified developers of carbon-free power sought for DOE Hanford Site
- NNSA seeking candidates to build clean-energy project in Nevada
- Portsmouth contractors seek dismissal of suit by leukemia patient
- Army Corps starts sampling for contamination buried deep under St. Louis suburb
- Legacy contractor closes book on DP Road cleanup in Los Alamos
- Corps RFP published for FUSRAP project in New Jersey
- Wrap Up: New Idaho cleanup boss starts soon; West Valley bidders get extension; New Mexico fines LANL and more
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- Judges focus on future DOE contracts in arguments over Holtec interim storage license
- DOE nuke programs get budget boosts in compromise 2024 spending bill
- Enviros file for hearing request on Diablo Canyon life extension
- NRC recommends doing away with advanced reactor licensing option that industry disliked
- Round up: Dueling nuclear events; Va. moves toward rate hikes for SMR installs; HALEU environmental review; more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 10
Read Full Issue- NNSA, nuclear weapons fully funded through compromise bill
- NNSA seeking candidates to build clean-energy farm in Nevada
- NNSA to help fund Shine Technologies new medical isotope production facility
- Senate passes RECA extension; Biden will sign
- Down to two members, DNFSB still seeking quorum
- Wrap up: Hruby remarks on insider threats; Iran uranium at IAEA; Centrus bell-ringing
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- Spending at DOE’s big nuclear cleanup sites inch upward in compromise bill
- NNSA, nuclear weapons fully funded through compromise bill
- Army Corps starts sampling for contamination buried deep under St. Louis suburb
- Corps RFP published for FUSRAP project in New Jersey
- Biden will sign RECA extension; Senate to vote this week
- Senate committee leaders praise NRC for effort to ease advanced reactor licensing
- NNSA to help fund Shine Technologies new medical isotope production facility