Publications: Exchange Monitor

With the Department of Energy committing to reopening the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant by next December, stakeholders from the federal and New Mexico governments, along with site contractor Nuclear Waste Partnership, on Monday will discuss the continuing work to recover from the February 2014 accidents that have kept the TRU waste storage facility closed for more than two […]

The biggest problems typically attract the most attention in environmental cleanup, and that’s why every step in the development of a new mercury treatment facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee is monitored, measured, and put up for critique. The Department of Energy – as well as outside observers, such as U.S. Sen. […]

The Department of Energy has issued a request for information as an early step toward plans for a Hanford Office of River Protection tank farm contract or contracts for post-fiscal 2018. It described the request as market research, emphasizing that no proposals are being sought yet. In October DOE issued a similar request for information […]

Moniz Still Confident WIPP Will Reopen in December The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M. should reopen in December as scheduled, DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz told Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) in a Thursday hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. “We believe we are on schedule for safely restarting operations later […]

Department of Energy contractors are abandoning plans to conduct a deep-borehole nuclear waste storage field test near Rugby, N.D., in response to formal opposition from the local county commission. Originally scheduled to break ground Sept. 1, the estimated five-year, $35 million project, proposed across 20 acres of state land, would have produced data on whether […]