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- Appeals court says NRC cannot license commercial interim storage; strips license from Orano-WCS joint venture
- NRC staffing shortfall will clog licensing of new reactors, GAO says
- In change of plans, Hanford prime wants to tear down 324 Building before soil cleanup
- Feds line up next pretreatment cycle for Hanford liquid waste, plan next steps on grouting
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- IWTU suffers only minor damage from July crane mishap, DOE says
- DOE, state bringing on new Hanford supervisors; past HAB member dies
- Oak Ridge nears conclusion of city manager search
- U.K. promises uranium enrichment boost for Ukrainian power plants
- Ukraine’s largest nuclear plant digs new cooling wells amid nearby shelling
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- NNSA nuke modernization blows beyond cost and schedule estimates, GAO finds
- Western DOE sites feel effects of powerful storm Hilary
- New York effectively bans wastewater discharges from Indian Point
- Hanford tank appeals court brief due in early fall
- STRATCOM’s Cotton prefers more nuke options to fewer, without naming weapons
- NRC will update public on high-assay, low-enriched uranium enrichment at Sept. meeting
- Publication Notice
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- Union approves Portsmouth labor extension prior to new remediation contractor
- Waste Control Specialists to brief compact members about planned changes to west Texas site
- WIPP receives 39 shipments in July; continues to beat 2022 pace
- New trade group report details proposed changes to EPA standards for geologic repositories
- NNSA’s Rose talks nuclear security with Asian allies
- New Mexico unveils new permit for DOE’s WIPP, sets hearing Sept. 22
- Ex-energy sec Brouillette to head electric company trade group
- N.M. college receives $11.7M for WIPP training
- Publication Notice
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 32
Read Full Issue- Automatically shut down because of low steam, Watts Bar reactor back up at 100 percent
- High marks for Y-12 fire protection systems in recent inspection
- NNSA’s Albuquerque research campus earns agency’s first sustainable design badge
- Jacobs reports lower earnings, higher revenue in its third fiscal quarter
- Centrus CFO to retire by end of month
- Amid war, Europe’s largest nuclear plant cools down
- Workers pull all-nighter to pour first slab for new Pantex high-explosives facility
- Judge opts for shortcut in case of alleged wage withholding by CNS as plaintiffs flounder
- Wrap up: Granholm hits LANL; Ukraine assistance; Livermore ignites again and more
- Publication notice
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- Holtec headed to NRC headquarters for open meeting about proposed Palisades restart
- To formalize financial aid to Diablo Canyon, Energy Department adopts NRC’s environmental reviews of plant
- Bipartisan bill to keep NRC inspectors at decommissioning plants is back
- Centrus CFO to retire by end of month
- Widespread power outages in areas near East Cost nuclear sites, but many restored after storms
- Round up: See SONGS by golf cart; New life for Perry plant?; Fukushima waste discharge this month or next?
- Publication Notice
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- BWXT team appeals court order blocking start of contested Hanford liquid-waste contract
- Hanford practices early steps of waste solidification at treatment plant
- Granholm met with congresswoman, faced the press, over Manhattan Project contamination during trip to Missouri
- Jacobs reports lower earnings, higher revenue in its third fiscal quarter
- Perma-Fix profitable in second quarter; was part of losing Hanford bidder; expects news on $45-billion tank waste contract by September
- Earnings and revenue rise at Parsons in second quarter
- Capping years of talks with Kentucky, DOE cuts Four Rivers a task order for Paducah facilities demolition
- DOE seeks external assessment of its work under Biden administration’s Justice40 climate, energy initiative
- Department of Labor to host illness-compensation seminar for current, former nuclear weapons workers
- Widespread power outages in areas near East Cost nuclear sites, but many restored after storms
- Wrap up: Veolia at Portsmouth; Perma-Fix at Niagra Falls; Fusion research awardee at Savannah River
- Publication Notice
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- BWXT team appeals court order blocking start of contested Hanford liquid-waste contract
- Hanford practices early steps of waste solidification at treatment plant
- Holtec headed to NRC headquarters for open meeting about proposed Palisades restart
- Granholm met with congresswoman, faced the press, over Manhattan Project contamination during trip to Missouri
- High marks for Y-12 fire protection systems in recent inspection
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- Jacobs reports lower earnings, higher revenue in its third fiscal quarter
- NNSA’s Albuquerque research campus earns agency’s first sustainable design badge
- Earnings and revenue rise at Parsons in second quarter
- To formalize financial aid to Diablo Canyon, Energy Department adopts NRC’s environmental reviews of plant
- Capping years of talks with Kentucky, DOE cuts Four Rivers a task order for Paducah facilities demolition
- IAEA finds no explosives atop two reactors at Ukraine’s besieged nuclear plant
- Federal offices in D.C. area empty early ahead of big storms
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- Judge opts for shortcut in case of alleged wage withholding by CNS as plaintiffs flounder
- Workers pull all-nighter to pour first slab for new Pantex high-explosives facility
- DOE seeks external assessment of its work under Biden administration’s Justice40 climate, energy initiative
- Bipartisan bill to keep NRC inspectors at decommissioning plants is back
- This week
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- Weapons complex observers anxious to learn more about DOE clean energy plan
- Union group approves 5-year pact at Hanford; retroactive to November 2022
- BWXT earnings dip but revenue up; company sees no Hanford biz resolution this year
- Carr becomes new CEO of SRS prime
- With phaseout of River Protection office, Stickney officially becomes Hanford’s lone No. 2
- Fluor earnings dip but revenue rises; as contractor upbeat on DOE biz
- Bomb squad blows up military fuse at DOE’s Hanford Site
- Huntington Ingalls’ second-quarter earnings down year-over-year
- DOE’s refusal of mediation with Hanford med provider not proof of ‘chicanery,’ board says
- DNFSB happy to see Biden nominate SRNL manager for vacant board seat
- Wrap Up: Ground broken on Oak Ridge landfill; Battelle picks new lab boss; Perma-Fix, Local 598 reach grout deal and more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 31
Read Full Issue- W87-1 for Sentinel reached new development milestone, Livermore announces
- No more funding planned for NNSA medical isotope cooperative agreement program
- Centrus earnings down year-over-year in second quarter, with NRC go-ahead to produce low-enriched uranium
- Fluor earnings dip but revenue rises; as contractor upbeat on DOE biz
- Earnings down at naval reactor maker BWXT, but bullish on shipbuilding
- Huntington Ingalls’ second-quarter earnings down year-over-year
- CNS seeks subcontractor to revamp utilities and equipment at Y-12
- Holloway named new resident inspector at Pantex
- Wrap up: U.S. reaffirms nuke nonproliferation stance; NNSA Technomics contract, Oak Ridge salamanders and more
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- Michigan approves financial aid for Palisades restart
- After Healey administration blocks Pilgrim discharge, lawmakers pull wastewater commission from state budget
- Shine wants to start conversation with NRC about planned spent-fuel recycling facility
- More than a month after passage, NY state ban on irradiated wastewater discharges no closer to law
- Round up: Vogtle Unit 3 online; Small reactor at INL; Fuel storage searches abroad; more
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- Weapons complex observers anxious to learn more about DOE clean energy plant
- Michigan approves financial aid for Palisades restart
- Shine wants to start conversation with NRC about planned spent-fuel recycling facility
- Holloway named new resident inspector at Pantex
- Crews finish building Paducah emergency ops center
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- With phaseout of River Protection office, Stickney officially becomes Hanford’s lone No. 2
- After Healey administration blocks Pilgrim discharge, lawmakers pull wastewater commission from state budget
- DOE’s refusal of mediation with Hanford med provider not proof of ‘chicanery,’ board says
- CNS seeks subcontractor to revamp utilities and equipment at Y-12
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 30
Read Full Issue- Senate easily passes NDAA with more spending for nukes, national labs
- Senate NDAA would launch nuclear cruise missile development within three months
- Ex-nuclear weapons official says plutonium pit production delays ‘very disturbing’
- Floors poured for Los Alamos pit production warehouses; opening this fall
- NNSA restarts drive to pick supplier of domestic uranium enrichment tech
- IAEA finds no heavy weapons, fewer explosions at Ukraine’s embattled nuclear plant
- Industry invited to hear DOE needs for high-assay, low-enriched uranium
- Biden asks high court to revisit Feds for Medical Freedom vax ruling by 5th Circuit
- Wrap up: Livermore community gifts; Radiation exposure compensation, Los Alamos tours and more
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- Weapons complex could go from bombs to cleanup to clean energy, under new DOE effort
- NNSA will acquire SRNS, Centerra contracts in fiscal 2025
- Biden asks high court to revisit Feds for Medical Freedom vax ruling by 5th Circuit
- DOE to start baking cost of grout into upcoming Hanford system plan analysis
- SWPF seeks higher output with new solvent in 2025; SRS liquid waste cleanup expected by 2037
- Bechtel contract at Hanford faces deadline; Centerra starts anew at Savannah River
- Melter 1 heat up complete at Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, DOE says
- Bidders for disputed Hanford contract anticipate second legal round, ask judge to retain records
- Panel interested in advising DOE on issues involving WIPP, in addition to Los Alamos
- About 90,000 tons of Moab uranium tailings relocated in June
- Public hearing set on Oak Ride airport planned on former DOE land
- Wrap Up: Aptim wins $68M task order; NDAA passes with Hawley amendment; TSCR starts early outage and more
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- Senate NDAA passes, has nuclear policy reform, uranium purchase requirement
- Senate committee’s version of NRC budget has university grants, reports on telework, advanced reactors
- Massachusetts blocks wastewater discharges from Pilgrim
- EnergySolutions is stalking horse bidder for bankrupt construction outfit
- Senate staffer to be chief of staff at DOE Office of Nuclear Energy
- DOE wants to build big clean-energy plants at its nuclear sites
- Round up: New head of NRC investigations; tritium near the Mississippi; German waste repository search
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- SWPF seeks higher output with new solvent in 2025; SRS liquid waste cleanup expected by 2037
- Massachusetts blocks wastewater discharges from Pilgrim
- Senate NDAA would launch nuclear cruise missile development within three months
- NNSA will acquire SRNS, Centerra contracts in fiscal 2025
- Public hearing set on Oak Ride airport planned on former DOE land
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- Melter 1 heat up complete at Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, DOE says
- Industry invited to hear DOE needs for high-assay, low-enriched uranium
- Details promised soon on SRS transition; complex offers land for energy development
- Senate committee’s version of NRC budget has university grants, reports on telework, advanced reactors
- Bechtel contract at Hanford faces deadline; Centerra starts anew at Savannah River
- EnergySolutions is stalking horse bidder for bankrupt construction outfit
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- Bidders for disputed Hanford contract anticipate second legal round, ask judge to retain records
- Floors poured for Los Alamos pit production warehouses; opening this fall
- Very low likelihood of Nevada groundwater plume reaching civilization any time soon, board hears
- Panel interested in advising DOE on issues involving WIPP, in addition to Los Alamos
- IAEA finds no heavy weapons, fewer explosions at Ukraine’s embattled nuclear plant
- This week
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- Senate approps sweetens defense environmental funding as part of fiscal 2024 bill
- Leaning on high-level reinterpretation, DOE plans to ship Savannah River waste to WCS
- GAO urges better relations between DOE, New Mexico for Los Alamos cleanup
- DOE halted work on Hanford Building 324 in April; EPA bristles over lack of consultation
- WIPP continues to outpace 2022; receives 56 shipments during June
- DOE plans to hire WCS to move Los Alamos TRU to above-ground storage
- Portsmouth/Paducah ops award could be around the corner, sources say
- Los Alamos crews cut corrugated metal pipes down to size for WIPP shipments
- Murray amends Senate NDAA bill to expand access to nuke worker illness benefits
- Wrap Up: ‘Wire’ actor has DOE kin; Tech services RFI comments due Aug. 3; SRNL, Amentum appoint new managers
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- Senate appropriators keep key nuclear waste funding account whole; tell DOE to move on interim storage
- Senate defense policy bill includes major nuclear energy reforms
- DOE weighing ‘options’ for Palisades financial aid, official says
- Large, bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers ask NRC to ease license rules for advanced reactors
- Waste Control Specialists to get $16.5M from DOE to move containers of stranded federal waste
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 29
Read Full Issue- Nuke spending will top $75B per year over next decade, mostly to modernize triad
- Pitches for potential 20-year, $30B Pantex management deal due by Sept. 14
- Los Alamos workforce will level off at about 20,000 by 2025, Triad official says
- Senate appropriators boost funding for plutonium, uranium production facilities
- Senate NDAA add would expand access to nuke worker illness benefits
- Wrap up: Senate punts NDAA; LANL official moves to Stanford; NNSA medical isotope meeting, Trinity fallout study and more
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- Senate defense policy bill includes major nuclear energy reforms
- Los Alamos workforce will level off at about 20,000 by 2025, Triad official says
- Los Alamos crews cut corrugated metal pipes down to size for WIPP shipments
- GAO urges better relations between DOE, New Mexico for Los Alamos cleanup
- HBO’s ‘The Wire’ actor with DOE kin speaks to small biz contractors
