Budget & Policy

Minibus appropriations bill with Defense Department funds has Price-Anderson extension

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A federal nuclear liability shield would be extended for 40 years and quadruple the value of federal indemnity for nuclear incidents outside the U.S. if a 2024 appropriations bill passed by the House Friday becomes law.
The language in the appropriations package…

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Hanford remediation could extend to nearly 22nd century

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Granholm fields House lawmaker questions on Hanford, NNSA

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Subs, small businesses short-changed from Bechtel vit contract, OIG finds

A tunnel boring machine operating inside an underground rock-salt mine tunnel.

Hanford lays groundwork for resumption of TRU shipments to WIPP

A tunnel boring machine operating inside an underground rock-salt mine tunnel.

WIPP works on defining legacy waste, finishing big infrastructure projects

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Federal judge again rejects adding plaintiffs to current UCOR COVID case

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UCOR inks multiyear deal contract with building trades union

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

In revised complaint, plaintiff Shaw points to cancer rates around Portsmouth Site

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DOE rejects deadline extension for Portsmouth-Paducah tech support RFP

A tunnel boring machine operating inside an underground rock-salt mine tunnel.

WIPP should have reported when 2 miners were stuck in hoist, board says

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

DOE agrees to install mobile showers at Hanford disposal site under settlement

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

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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