Weapons Complex Vol. 26 No. 47 LANL Field Office Knocked on Issues Management
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High-Level & Tank Waste
DOE Pushes to Begin Emptying Hanford Waste Tank
Staff Reports WC Monitor 12/18/2015 The Department of Energy is working aggressively to start emptying the Hanford Site’s double-shell Tank AY-102 by the state deadline of March 4, according to the technical program manager for the project. The tank, the oldest of Hanford’s 28 double-shell waste storage tanks, was discovered to be leaking waste from […]
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Budget & Policy
Budget Provides $6B for DOE Defense Environmental Cleanup, D&D
Chris Schneidmiller WC Monitor 12/18/2015 The congressionally approved omnibus budget for fiscal 2016 would provide nearly $6 billion for remediation of legacy Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities across the nation. House lawmakers voted Friday morning 316-113 to approve the $1.15 trillion spending package, and the Senate quickly followed suit with a 65-33 decision. The […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Publication Notice
The Weapons Complex Monitor is beginning its annual holiday break and will return to your inboxes on Friday, Jan. 8. The Weapons Complex Morning Briefing will be published Monday through Wednesday next week, and we will publish special bulletins should any major news break in the interim.
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wash. State, DOE Joust Over Hanford Cleanup Proposals
Staff Reports WC Monitor 12/18/2015 The state of Washington and the Department of Energy each have told a federal judge that the others’ proposal for new consent decree milestones at the Hanford Site would lead to delays in the massive cleanup project. Responses to the sides’ revised proposals were due this week, after U.S. District […]
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP Ventilation Plan Being Rethought
Chris Schneidmiller WC Monitor 12/18/2015 The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico might be able to resume nuclear waste storage operations using only one of two new ventilation systems planned to be installed in the underground facility, the Department of Energy said this week. The facility’s airflow was significantly curtailed following the February 2014 […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
DOE: ‘Low Risk’ in Shipping Canadian HEU to SRS
Staff Reports WC Monitor 12/18/2015 The Department of Energy has determined there is no need for a new supplemental environmental impact statement (EIS) before a liquid form of highly enriched uranium is transported from Canada to the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C. Stakeholders, including nuclear watchdogs and congressmen, have called for an EIS before […]
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Transuranic Waste
Oak Ridge Stocking Up on TRU Waste Containers
Staff Reports WC Monitor 12/18/2015 The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management expects to need about 240 of the first-of-a-kind containers designed for storing some of the remote-handled transuranic wastes that have been processed and certified at the Transuranic Waste Processing Center in Oak Ridge but can’t be shipped to the Waste Isolation Pilot […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
DOE Office Assesses Hanford Vit Plant Construction
Staff Reports WC Monitor 12/18/2015 The construction quality at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment Plant was satisfactory for the areas reviewed in an on-site visit in September, but some concerns remain, the Department of Energy Office of Enterprise Assessments said last week. The office reviews construction quality at the vitrification plant each quarter, varying the […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up
WC Monitor 12/18/2015 IN DOE The Department of Energy has determined there is no need for a new supplemental environmental impact statement (EIS) before a liquid form of highly enriched uranium is transported from Canada to the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C. Stakeholders, including nuclear watchdogs and congressmen, have called for an EIS before […]