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FEATURED UNLOCKED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
Canada picks a site for a deep geologic repository
Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation and the Township of Ignace will host a deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel, Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization announced Thursday. The Canadian agency made the announcement on the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday only a few days after the Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation gave its consent to host the repository. The nation of indigenous people consented to be a host community several months after the Township of Ignace did. Ignace, in the province of Ontario, is roughly 280 miles East by road from Winnipeg, in the neighboring province of Manitoba, some 440 miles north by road from Duluth, Minn., and about 135 miles in a straight line… |
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Energy and Water approps chair says no ‘topline item agreed to’ for budget; has talked with Chris Wright
WASHINGTON — Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.), chair of the energy and water appropriations subcommittee in the House, told the Exchange Monitor he does not know when a vote on the federal budget would be. “I have not been privy to… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
Enviro liability, pits, cyber atop OIG concerns for DOE
The Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons complex has entered fiscal 2025 facing more than a half-trillion dollars in environmental liability, the rising threat of cyber-attack and the need to revive plutonium pit production. Those are a few takeaways in a… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
Interim storage ban twisted law, ignored precedent, let Texas break rules, company tells SCOTUS
A 2023 ban on commercial interim storage was a judicial power grab that flouted the law and ignored the authority of other courts, according to a Monday Supreme Court brief. In its final brief before oral arguments scheduled for March,… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
Air Force Joint-Global Strike Operations Center commander says 80-4 ‘going well and on time’
Development of the nuclear warhead for the Air Force’s next cruise missile so far is not affected by the early parallel development of a sea-launched variant of the warhead for the Navy, the commander of the eighth Air Force said… |
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