The Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative project being built at the University of South Carolina-Aiken is 85% complete, the top nuclear cleanup official for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site told a federal advisory board Monday.
“It will be open for operation come the summer of 2025,” Michael Budney, who leads the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management field office, told the Savannah River Site Citizens Advisory Board during the panel’s Monday meeting.
Many interior walls at the offsite research center for the Savannah River National Laboratory are already installed, Budney told the advisory board. The $50-million project being built by North Wind will provide DOE with about 60,000 square feet for lab space, offices and meeting rooms, DOE has said. The location at the college, about 20 miles from the Savannah River Site, enables outside experts to work with DOE without going through Savannah River’s onsite badging process, the department has said. North Wind posted an overview of the project in July.
More than two weeks after election day, the Associated Press has called Ohio’s District 9 congressional race in favor of longtime incumbent Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio).
Ohio election results show Kaptur, one of the longest-serving members of the House of Representatives and a House appropriator, with a roughly 1,190-vote margin over Republican challenger Derek Merrin, a member of the Ohio legislature. Merrin could still request a recount
It’s not exactly radioactive waste definitions for dummies, but a National Governors Association task force has produced a document to help state and federal agencies stay on the same page when discussing cleanup of government nuclear weapons testing and production.
“The purpose of this document is to help states impacted by cleanup at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear weapons cleanup sites clarify the radioactive waste classifications that underpin cleanup activities,” according to the 10-page document.
“Ensuring Clarity and Transparency in Radioactive Waste Definitions,” was published earlier this month by the National Governor Association (NGA) federal facilities task force. The chart identifies types of radioactive waste that currently lack a clearly-defined and available disposal site. High-level waste connected with reprocessing currently has no deep geologic repository as does spent nuclear fuel withdrawn from reactors.
Amy Boyette, a longtime federal communications officer with the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management and National Nuclear Security Administration, in September joined a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries.
Boyette is now vice president of strategy and integration with the Mission Technologies division of Huntington Ingalls. Boyette is based out of North Augusta, S.C. near DOE’s Savannah River Site.
