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- Replacement parts among plenty of risks for Hanford liquid waste project, GAO reports
- New chief of waste and materials management at EM
- Portsmouth X-326 Building comes down
- Incumbent WIPP waste hauler CAST wins follow-on contract
- WIPP shipments running behind 2021 levels through May
- DOE Carlsbad boss reacts to stranded Los Alamos waste; shrugs off question of rail transport
- Moab tailings cleanup enters home stretch, DOE officials tell NRC
- DOE assessment urges improved safety practices on WIPP utility shaft
- Hanford vaccine objectors file appeal with Ninth Circuit
- Oak Ridge Laboratory workers settle vaccination case in federal court
- Wrap Up: IWTU test plugging away; legal support sought; plaintiff lawyer dies
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- Congress should ‘move forward’ with NNSA’s plan for plutonium pits, Armed Services chair says
- WIPP waste hauler deal extended through July
- NWPA update for interim storage ‘could take years,’ DOE acting spent fuel chief says
- Feinstein flips on Diablo Canyon closure
- Moab tailings cleanup enters home stretch, DOE officials tell NRC
- GAO finds that Los Alamos safety culture ‘needs improvement,’ according to NNSA
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- Contract extension, replacement parts among challenges for Hanford liquid waste, GAO reports
- NRC green lights use of TMI-1 decom trust fund for spent fuel, site restoration
- WIPP shipments running behind 2021 levels through May
- Los Alamos ending on-site COVID-19 testing
- House approps releases first draft of FY23 defense budget; SLCM-N out
- ‘Vast majority’ of U.S. public open to spent fuel recycling, Huff says
- Hanford vaccine objectors file appeal with Ninth Circuit
- Idaho Citizen Advisory Board meeting called off
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 23
Read Full Issue- Once-prohibited practice of crushing drums containing flammable rags led to BWXT worker death in 2020, NRC says
- Strategic forces subcommittee approves Nuclear Weapons Council changes, Pantex modernization study for NDAA
- WIPP, NNSA seeking closer cooperation on waste disposal plans
- Amentum reorganizing national security business
- Biden signs bill extending compensation for rad-sickened downwinders, test participants
- Panel seeks $100M annually for low-dose radiation impact; DOE role undecided
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- Diablo Canyon ‘full speed ahead’ on decommissioning despite Newsom’s pleas, exec says
- Holtec exec doubles down on ‘25 timeline for interim storage site despite NRC delay
- Final NRC decom rule scheduled for May ‘24, agency says
- Markey grills NRC commissioner nominees over proposed decommissioning rule
- NorthStar adventurism at Kewaunee has not shaken EnergySolutions’ decom plans COO says
- INL aiming to close fuel cycle, lower costs for advanced nukes, lab’s waste chief says
- DOE should ‘strengthen and improve’ interim storage efforts with more community outreach, NWTRB says in letter
- No issues with Constellation using TMI-1 decom trust fund for spent fuel, site restoration, NRC says
- Second environmental group tells Holtec to reconsider Pilgrim wastewater plan
- NRC renews call to toss enviros’ interim storage suit
- Wrap Up: Project Pele contract; DOE nuclear energy justice fellowship; Cleveland wants FirstEnergy name off Browns stadium
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- EM acting policy chief Mullis talks ‘silver tsunami,’ environmental justice
- Hanford gets budget hike in record time; Murray touts win
- WIPP, NNSA seeking closer cooperation on waste disposal plans
- Nuclear cleanup leadership should be built to ‘span administrations,’ GAO reviewer says
- Judge won’t let DOE boot Swift & Staley out of Paducah in March ‘23
- DOE hoping for a WIPP rebound thanks to new panel, infrastructure, Carlsbad boss says
- UCOR keeping wary eye on timetable for new Oak Ridge landfill
- DOE picking up Four Rivers option at Paducah, company exec says
- GAO would examine quality assurance at DOE cleanup office under subcommittee NDAA plan
- Amentum defines roles for National Security biz group
- Nuclear biz still figures into future at Oak Ridge
- Panel seeks $100M annually for low-dose radiation impact; DOE role undecided
- Virginia small biz to provide support for EMCBC’s Denver office
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- WIPP, NNSA seeking closer cooperation on waste disposal plans
- EM acting policy chief Mullis talks ‘silver tsunami,’ environmental justice
- Markey grills NRC commissioner nominees over proposed decommissioning rule
- Strategic forces subcommittee approves Nuclear Weapons Council changes, Pantex modernization study for NDAA
- INL aiming to close fuel cycle, lower costs for advanced nukes, lab’s waste chief says
- Paducah cleanup trails Portsmouth by about 8 years
- Nuclear cleanup leadership should be built to ‘span administrations,’ GAO reviewer says
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- Diablo Canyon ‘full speed ahead’ on decommissioning despite Newsom’s pleas, exec says
- Nuclear Weapons Council changes among early published details of House’s fiscal ‘23 NDAA
- GAO would examine quality assurance at DOE cleanup office under subcommittee NDAA plan
- Judge won’t let DOE boot Swift & Staley out of Paducah in March ‘23
- Senate committee to consider Biden’s NRC commissioner nominees
- Biden signs bill extending compensation for rad-sickened downwinders, test participants
- Exchange Monitor’s RadWaste Summit starts today
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- NorthStar adventurism at Kewaunee has not shaken EnergySolutions’ decom plans, COO says
- No issues with Constellation using TMI-1 decom trust fund for spent fuel, site restoration, NRC says
- Early details of FY23 NDAA’s nuclear-weapons directives expected today, tomorrow
- Decision time approaching for DOE on picking up Four Rivers option at Paducah
- Final NRC decom rule scheduled for May ‘24, agency says
- Early SEC filings shed light on NuScale finances
- Panel seeks $100M annually for low-dose radiation impact; DOE role undecided
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- Exchange Monitor’s Decommissioning Strategy Forum begins Monday
- Amentum reorganizing national security business
- Reprocessing ending at United Kingdom’s Sellafield Magnox complex
- Second environmental group tells Holtec to reconsider Pilgrim wastewater plan
- Sealed order issued in Swift & Staley case over Paducah contract
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 22
Read Full Issue- State Dept. official won’t endorse unilateral U.S. commitment to New START after treaty ends
- DUF6 incumbent gets six more months to accommodate competition for follow-on work with DUF4 element
- DOE, DNFSB nail down details of board oversight in the Order 140.1 era
- COVID cases quadruple at NNSA sites in May, mirroring national upswing at summer’s start
- Los Alamos to take delivery of new high-performance computer system in 2023
- NNSA wrapping rad scans in Los Angeles ahead of Summit of the Americas
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- NRC blesses continued TRU storage at WCS as Texas pushes for action
- DOE, DNFSB nail down details of board oversight in the Order 140.1 era
- Portsmouth X-326 demolition could be down to slab this summer
- Fluor-BWXT, Mid-America teams could stay on the job until September 2023
- IWTU demonstration run resumes at Idaho National Lab
- Newhouse facing ex-stock car racer, other GOP challengers in open primary
- Wrap Up: Radwaste Summit nears; Outage kicks off at DWPF; Demo underway for Y-12 Building 9213
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- Expert, industry question results of Stanford SMR waste report
- Brinton still on deck for a job at NE, Huff says
- DOE reviewing Newsom request to make Diablo Canyon eligible for early bailout
- NRC staff to recommend rules change, or not, for special nuclear material security after summer
- NM AG secures extra time for next volley in interim storage lawsuit
- ‘An arrow in our quiver:’ 15 minutes with Dr. Kathryn Huff, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy
- Wrap Up: Decommissioning Strategy Forum; Indian Point inspection; Orano’s new spent fuel cask; UK reactor shutdown
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- IWTU demonstration run resumes at Idaho National Lab
- NRC staff to recommend rules change, or not, for special nuclear material security after summer
- NuScale defends SMR design after waste report
- Washington Gov. Inslee visiting Hanford Site Thursday
- Newhouse facing ex-stock car racer, other GOP challengers in open primary
- State dept. arms control official to address annual meeting of disarmament group
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- Fluor-BWXT, Mid-America teams could stay on the job until September 2023
- DOE reviewing Newsom request to make Diablo Canyon eligible for early bailout
- NRC finds no significant impact of continued TRU storage at WCS
- Los Alamos to take delivery of new high-performance computer system in 2023
- NNSA helos scanning Los Angeles ahead of Summit of the Americas
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- DOE releases final solicitations for next Portsmouth, Paducah contracts
- New-cor: United Cleanup Oak Ridge on the job in Tennessee
- Swift & Staley services contract at Paducah must end next year, government tells court
- EM on-site COVID-19 cases increase by 50%, month-to-month
- Cleanup boss at Los Alamos praises firefighters
- Former SRS engineer hops over to defense board
- Russian sanctions list includes many lawmakers with DOE nuclear connections
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 21
Read Full Issue- Paducah contract with DUF4 for NNSA out for bids
- NNSA administrator talks posture review, war in Ukraine, radical change in the enterprise during annual meeting of labs professionals
- ‘Tough fights’ ahead on nuclear sea launched cruise missile, B-83, Armed Services chair says
- SRS-area congressman asks appropriators to keep pits whole, reject proposed H-Canyon cut
- DOE sites took shipments of Japanese HEU from reactors in March
- As decades-long modernization slog ramps up, GAO looks into advanced manufacturing across NNSA enterprise
- Cerro Pelado fire 92% contained; Sandia wildfire forced evacuation of DOE National Training Center
- Former SRS engineer hops over to defense board
- Russian sanctions list includes many lawmakers with DOE nuclear connections
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- Final approval for Holtec CISF in New Mexico pushed to 2023, NRC says
- Despite early closure, ‘no plans’ at Holtec to finalize Palisades sale early
- Mulling a Diablo Canyon bailout, California implores DOE to scrap ‘overly broad’ exclusions for nuke credit applicants
- After Cali gov muses on keeping Diablo Canyon open, enviros protest
- Complete decom rule with ‘all due haste,’ nuclear professional org tells NRC
- Pilgrim wastewater plan obeys regulations, NRC tells local town council
- Wrap Up: Granholm visits CT nuke plant; VTR environmental impact statement; NRC updates NuScale safety review
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- DOE releases final solicitations for next Portsmouth, Paducah contracts
- ‘Tough fights’ ahead on nuclear sea launched cruise missile, B-83, Armed Services chair says
- Mulling a Diablo Canyon bailout, California implores DOE to scrap ‘overly broad’ exclusions for nuke credit applicants
- Cleanup boss at Los Alamos praises firefighters
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- New-cor: United Cleanup Oak Ridge on the job in Tennessee
- Swift & Staley services contract at Paducah must end next year, government tells court
- Complete decom rule with ‘all due haste,’ nuclear professional org tells NRC
- After Cali gov muses on keeping Diablo Canyon open, enviros protest
- Russian sanctions list includes many lawmakers with DOE nuclear connections
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- Despite early closure, ‘no plans’ at Holtec to finalize Palisades sale early
- SRS-area congressman asks appropriators to keep pits whole, reject proposed H-Canyon cut
- Former SRS engineer hops over to defense board
- Sandia wildfire forced evacuation of DOE National Training Center
- DOE sites took shipments of Japanese HEU from reactors in March
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- SWPF could handle 4 million gallons this year; no word yet on SRS Ops contract
- Washington Gov. Inslee uses Tri-Party Agreement anniversary to urge more Hanford funds
- Judge rejects COVID vax case brought by Hanford security guards
- Swift & Staley opposes feds’ effort to set time limit on injunction protecting its Paducah biz
- Feds, state seek greater outreach to tribes, minorities near Hanford Site
- No. 2 EM boss at Savannah River calls it a career
- Cerro Pelado wildfire increasingly contained; Los Alamos lab employees can return to work
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- DOE extends nuclear credit application deadline
- Texas renews pushback on NRC authority to license interim storage
- Wisconsin public service commission approves Kewaunee plant sale
- Skipping interview with exposed workers at Columbia Generating Station was ‘judgement call,’ NRC says
- No corrosion on SONGS spent fuel canisters, Orano says
- House seat in SONGS district up for grabs
- Decom work back underway at SONGS after worker mishap
- Wrap Up: Pilgrim communities opposing Holtec wastewater plan; Orano in Euro waste transport; Live from Chernobyl
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 20
Read Full Issue- NNSA kills controversial award to manage main weapons production sites; plans multiyear extension for incumbent
- Uranium Processing Facility will be eight months late, NNSA says
- Plan to get plutonium-pit factories back on track coming in ‘early fall,’ official tells lawmakers
- Plutonium pit master sked coming this year; first W80-4 cruise missile warhead likely late, NNSA admin testifies
- Personnel change in upper echelons of NNSA Production Office
- Cerro Pelado wildfire increasingly contained; Los Alamos lab employees can return to work
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- Uranium Processing Facility will be eight months late, NNSA says
- DOE extends nuclear credit application deadline
- No corrosion on SONGS spent fuel canisters, Orano says
- Cerro Pelado wildfire increasingly contained; Los Alamos lab employees can return to work
- Feds, state seek greater outreach to tribes, minorities near Hanford Site
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- Senior NNSA officials to testify in Senate in home stretch of budget hearing season
- Plan to get plutonium-pit factories back on track coming in ‘early fall,’ official tells lawmakers
- Judge rejects COVID vax case brought by Hanford security guards
- Swift & Staley opposes feds’ effort to set time limit on injunction protecting its Paducah biz
- Wisconsin public service commission to discuss Kewaunee sale Wednesday
