Vol. 37, No. 05 
California company gets DOE blessing to use vacant Hanford structure
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Jarrell to lead DOE NE nuclear fuel cycle; Murray heads to EM
The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy this week tapped longtime nuclear complex supervisor Josh Jarrell to become deputy assistant secretary for nuclear fuel cycle. Separately two industry sources have told Exchange Monitor in the past week that Office of Nuclear Energy executive, Paul Murray, is moving over to DOE’s Office of Environmental Management. […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE’s Oak Ridge boss Olds adds interim Portsmouth/Paducah role
The head of the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management field office in Tennessee, Eric Olds, is also temporarily overseeing DOE’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office. While Olds remains the manager of the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management, he now is also serving as the interim acting manager for the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO), a department spokesperson […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
DOE to restart uranium recovery at SRS
The Department of Energy said Wednesday it will resume uranium recovery operations at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, utilizing the H-Canyon facility. The uranium recovery work will help recover key isotopes that are currently hard to obtain in the United States and support scientific research as well as medical applications and commercial uses, […]
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Innovation & Infrastructure
Nuclear complex fights to attract, keep skilled workers
ARLINGTON, VA – For sites in the Department of Energy’s nuclear complex recruiting electricians and skilled craftspeople is a big task – and keeping them can be another. This was a key theme to emerge during a Tuesday Jan. 27 panel discussion here at Exchange Monitor’s annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit. Senior managers from National Nuclear […]
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Warhead & Weapons Development
DOE branches lay groundwork for future Y-12 work, NNSA exec says
ARLINGTON, VA — Two sister entities within the Department of Energy, the Office of Environmental Management and the semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), are setting the stage for future work at the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge, Tenn. That’s according to NNSA Y-12 field office manager Mary Helen Hitson at Exchange Monitor’s […]
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Budget & Policy
Sen. Hawley praises online portal for RECA claims
The Department of Justice recently launched an online portal for radioactive waste survivors to submit claims for assistance through the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). “GREAT NEWS – the DOJ has launched the online portal for radioactive waste survivors to submit their RECA claims,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), one of the bipartisan advocates for RECA, […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Wrap Up: NRC starts reorg; Deep Isolation breaks ground on borehole; NEPA breaks offered for DOE advanced reactors; more
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has launched an agency-wide reorganization to streamline decision-making in an effort to create more efficient licensing procedures. NRC said it will reorganize around core business lines of new reactors, operating reactors and nuclear materials and waste, according to the agency’s Wednesday press release. Within the overhaul, “licensing and inspection functions […]