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States to be looped in ahead of next year’s RFI for federal interim-storage host site
The Department of Energy next year plans to ask potential host communities of a future federal interim storage for spent nuclear fuel to step forward, an official said Thursday. But ahead of that request for information, DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy plans to inform state governments about its search, Paul Murray, deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and high-level waste, told members of the federal Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board at the group’s annual summer meeting. “We can’t just go out with an RFI and say ‘we’re looking for host communities to come forwards,’ or else we will run into the trap of, as you say, the states won’t let…		 Upcoming Events

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DOE believes Panels 11 and 12 won’t worsen risk at WIPP
Adding Panels 11 and 12 at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico should not heighten radiological risk at the underground disposal site, the Department of Energy said during a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency public meeting Wednesday in Santa…
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UCOR not immune from suit by fired employee in COVID vax case
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit this month ruled against the environmental prime at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site, saying it lacks sovereign immunity from a lawsuit filed by a radiation technician who was fired…
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NRC charter law allows no spent fuel storage licenses, state, group tell SCOTUS
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission relied on the wrong law when it licensed private long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel, Texas and a mineral rights-group headquartered there told the U.S. Supreme Court last week. It is essentially the same argument that…
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NNSA awards BWXT domestic uranium enrichment contract for national security purposes
The National Nuclear Security Administration announced Monday it awarded a BWX Technologies subsidiary a contract to evaluate options for a pilot plant for domestically enriched uranium. Nuclear Fuel Services, the BWX Technologies (BWXT) subsidiary that manufactures fuel material for naval…
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