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Hanford WTP melter heat-up could resume within weeks, White says
Crews at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state are doing electrical testing, setting the stage to again start heating up the first melter at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, the agency’s acting nuclear cleanup boss said Monday. “At Hanford we resumed our electrical testing for the vitrification plant,” William (Ike) White, senior adviser of the Office of Environmental Management, said during an online meeting of a DOE cleanup advisory board. “We are also beginning to get into the final couple of weeks before we are able to resume another heat up,” White told the Environmental Management Advisory Board. There is “a lot of work to be…		 Upcoming Events

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Big cleanup field offices all start reporting to EM-2, or EM-1 feds say
With the head of field operations at the Department of Energy’s $8-billion nuclear remediation branch recently announcing departure plans, more of the Cold War and Manhattan Project cleanup sites will start reporting directly to the No. 2 boss at headquarters…
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IWTU now running with 100% radioactive waste, EM boss White tells board
A $1.4-billion facility to convert sodium-bearing waste into a solid granular form at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory is now running with 100% radioactive waste, the head of the $8-billion nuclear cleanup office said Monday. The Integrated Waste…
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Holtec says funding fight for Palisades restart could be won or lost by July
Holtec International will know by June or July whether it will get the funds it wants to restart the shuttered Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Calvert, Mich., executives told Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff Wednesday. It was the most specific public…
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Sluggish plutonium-pit production tells allies and adversaries U.S. nuke modernization ‘not important,” expert says
Production of tritium and plutonium pits could prove a significant limiting factor in the introduction of a new nuclear weapons delivery method like a sea-launched cruise missile and other attempts by the U.S. to beef up its nuclear arsenal to…
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