Transuranic Waste

WIPP Subcontractor Buys Carlsbad Hotel Amid Oil Boom

By Photo of Wayne Barber

Anyone visiting the Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) these days should not count on finding a cheap hotel room around Carlsbad, N.M.
Rooms are scarce and midweek rates can run from $148 per night at the Super 8, to $289 at the Days Inn,…

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Energy Dept. Budget Would Trim Funding for Some Cleanup Sites

A worker in safety gear inspecting large concrete storage modules built to hold spent nuclear fuel containers.

DOE Seeks SRS Liquid Waste Funding Uptick

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Canada Probe of SNC-Lavalin Not Sure Red Light on U.S. Business

A worker in safety gear inspecting large concrete storage modules built to hold spent nuclear fuel containers.

Hanford Test Bed Initiative Suffers Another Permit Setback

A scientist in a lab coat and gloves examining a sample through a microscope in a research laboratory.

Labs Face Funding Cuts for DOE Environmental Cleanup

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Resignation Leaves DNFSB With Three Members

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Hanford Support Services Provider Gets Temporary Extension

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

Administration Plan Would Move FUSRAP From Army to Energy Dept.

The U.S. Capitol dome framed by trees with an overlay of paper currency, symbolizing federal budget appropriations.

House Panel to Hear From Perry on 2020 DOE Budget Request

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N3B Awards 1 Los Alamos Subcontract, Issues RFP for Another

Two large concrete cooling towers standing at a nuclear plant site ahead of planned demolition.

Work Resumes in X-333 at Portsmouth After Uranium Equipment Fire

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Oak Ridge Contractor Selection Continues for Low-Risk Structure Cleanup

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

State Reviews Reports Prior to Resumption of Work at Idaho Lab Drum Breach Site

A worker in safety gear inspecting large concrete storage modules built to hold spent nuclear fuel containers.

Wrap Up: H-Canyon Producing 100,000 Gallons of Annual Liquid Waste

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