Department of Energy

A public meeting has been set for Tuesday Dec. 9 for federal officials to discuss data from the depressurization of four flanged tritium waste containers at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory. The DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will conduct the meeting set for 5:30 p.m. local time at the Sala Event […]

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright is logging a lot of miles before Christmas, visiting the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site as well as the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory this week. Wright is then scheduled to round out his western swing on Monday Dec. 8 with a stopover at Idaho National Laboratory, according to notices released […]

The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has provided more information on land available for lease at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina for development of a data center powered by a small modular reactor (SMR). The online procurement notice published Monday in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) now lists 5 […]

A former security officer at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site state will avoid spending time behind bars after pleading guilty to making false statements to obtain payroll protection loans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Leif Gerlad Larsen was sentenced this week in federal court in Washington state to two years probation, according to filings with […]

After spending 40 years with the federal government, Daniel Ogg, currently executive director of U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB), will retire effective Dec. 31. Ogg has headed NWTRB for more than three years and has been with the board, as a member of its professional staff, since 2014, according to a post Tuesday […]

Holtec and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will each receive $400 million from the Department of Energy to support early deployments of advanced light-water small modular reactors (SMRs), DOE said Tuesday. The federal cost-shared funding will help advance early SMR projects in Tennessee and Michigan, DOE said in a press release. The financial support helps […]

The Department of Energy and other agencies said Wednesday nearly half of the 33,000-plus acres at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee are suitable for reuse without any additional cleanup. Research by DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) “show 16,377 of the […]

Earnings rose at Amentum, Chantilly, Va., in the past quarter, which the company attributed to “tailwinds” in nuclear power and defense. This is Amentum’s first year as a publicly traded company following its combination with the government contracting branches of Dallas-based Jacobs.  Net earnings for the quarter ended Oct. 3 were $3.9 billion, or $0.16 […]

Deep Isolation said Wednesday it has completed a three-year-long Department of Energy-funded project that advances the company’s Universal Canister System technology for nuclear waste disposal. Deep Isolation’s Universal Canister System is a triple-purpose canister designed to ensure the safe storage, transport and permanent disposal of spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste, according to its press […]

The Department of Energy and other agencies said Wednesday nearly half of the 33,000-plus acres at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee are suitable for reuse without any additional cleanup. Research by DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) “show 16,377 of the […]

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright is scheduled to visit the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site as well as the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory this week. That is according to an advisory released by the DOE communications office late Tuesday. The schedule shows Wright visiting the Ice Harbor Dam in Burbank, Wash., and answering questions from […]

Holtec and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will each receive $400 million from the Department of Energy to support early deployments of advanced light-water small modular reactors (SMRs), DOE said Tuesday. The federal cost-shared funding will help advance early SMR projects in Tennessee and Michigan, DOE said in a press release. The financial support helps […]

After spending 40 years with the federal government, Daniel Ogg, currently executive director of U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB), will retire effective Dec. 31. Ogg has headed NWTRB for more than three years and has been with the board, as a member of its professional staff, since 2014, according to a post Tuesday […]

Emily Burdick, a former Congressional staffer who also held jobs at the Department of Energy during the first Donald Trump administration, has become the new chief of staff to the acting undersecretary of energy, Alex Fitzsimmons. Burdick said this past week on her LinkedIn page that she accepted the new post in October. She worked […]

A group that includes Deep Atomic and Parker Tide said this week it has submitted a proposal to the Department of Energy for a fully integrated nuclear-powered artificial intelligence (AI) data center at its Idaho National Laboratory (INL). Deep Atomic, the Austin-Texas-based small modular reactor (SMR) startup, proposes to initially start data center operations using […]

The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has provided more information on land available for lease at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina for development of a data center powered by a small modular reactor (SMR). The online procurement notice published Monday in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) now lists 5 […]

An AtkinsRéalis-led Department of Energy contractor has donated $1.5-million to help renovate the Advanced Manufacturing Center at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio. Shawnee State is designated as an “opportunity college” by the Carnegie Foundation and is Ohio’s only open-access public university, according to the school’s website.  Shawnee State is located near DOE’s Portsmouth Site […]

Here are events related to nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking:  December 03: Confirmation hearing: Starts at 10 a.m. Eastern Time when the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee takes up the nomination of Douglas Weaver to be a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 09: Conference: The second South Carolina Nuclear Summit […]

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, the California-based defense and technology company, has finished the conceptual design of a new helium gas-cooled fast reactor, the Department of Energy said last week. The advanced reactor is one of three early-stage projects supported by the department, DOE said in a Nov. 25 press release. The General Atomics company is […]

Work crews for an Amentum-led joint venture have taken down a 37,000-square-foot office building at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state. The 4710 Building, as it was known, provided offices for managers and staff for the former Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF), which was a test reactor used for nuclear research, DOE […]

Energy Communities Alliance will hold a virtual meeting on Dec. 4 to discuss colocating nuclear reactors with artificial intelligence data centers. The webinar, “Advancing New Nuclear with Datacenter Development”, will also explore concerns local officials must address, such as community engagement, regulatory considerations and siting. The session will discuss issues on co-locating nuclear power reactors […]

Here are events related to nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking:  November  25: Earnings Call: Amentum to report quarterly earnings at  8:30 AM Eastern Time. 25: Meeting: Northwest Interstate Compact On Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management meets at 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time to discuss Energy’s proposal to dispose of Canadian waste in Utah.  

The Department of Energy is inviting expressions of interest (EOI) from vendors interested in providing mature technology to potentially recycle 9,700 tons of volumetrically contaminated nickel stored at the Paducah Site in Kentucky. DOE’s Portsmouth-Paducah Project office announced the nickel reuse EOI in a Friday Nov. 21 press release. This EOI comes more than two […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has rescheduled its three-judge panel’s oral arguments until Dec. 8 at 10 a.m. Eastern Time on challenges to Long Mott Energy’s construction permit application. The oral arguments, originally scheduled for Oct. 6, were previously postponed due to the government shutdown. NRC published a press release on Nov. 20 of the updated […]

The Department of Energy said this week it has approved a $1-billion loan to help Constellation Energy restart the former Three Mile Island Unit 1 nuclear facility, recently renamed the Crane Clean Energy Center. In a Tuesday press release, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said the DOE Loan Programs Office closed on a loan “to […]

Jocelyn Brown-Saracino, who spent 15 years with the Department of Energy, has been selected to head the DOE Alumni Network, Tarak Shah, former DOE chief of staff during the Joe Biden administration, announced last week on LinkedIn. “Having gotten to know Jocelyn over this search process, I am SO excited that she is going to […]

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright Thursday announced reorganization of the Department of Energy with a prominent role in the organizational chart for the semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). A link to the new org chart shows an office of undersecretary for nuclear security and NNSA being one of the three biggest silos reporting up […]

The Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission have recently updated a 2019 memorandum of understanding to better coordinate the review of advanced nuclear energy reactor technologies. The document, drafted in October and made public this month, seeks to balance DOE’s traditional role in researching and promoting nuclear energy with NRC’s traditional role as a […]

The Department of Energy has approved the Nuclear Safety Design Agreement for Oklo’s Aurora Fuel Fabrication Facility at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). The Nuclear Safety Design Agreement, the first under DOE’s nuclear fuel line pilot program, was approved by the Idaho Operations Office in under two weeks, according to Oklo’s Nov. 11 press release. The […]

More than three-dozen nuclear critics and environmental groups contend in a recent letter that President Donald Trump’s executive actions could weaken radiation protections and endanger public health. “The Trump White House has issued numerous executive orders (EO), including one directing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to revise its long-standing radiation rule, Standards for Protection Against […]