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E&E News
February 22, 2018
NUCLEAR WASTE. Hanford watchdog reports contamination in cars deemed clean. Published: Wednesday, February 21, 2018. A watchdog group says it has found a small amount of radioactive contamination in two cars at the Department of Energy's Hanford nuclear reservation.
Post Register
February 22, 2018
The Department of Energy is unlikely to meet a major deadline to remove some nuclear waste from Idaho. The 1995 Settlement Agreement requires all transuranic waste to be shipped out of the state by Dec. 31, 2018. However, waste shipments were delayed for three years due to an accident at the WasteÃÂ ...
Reno Gazette Journal
February 21, 2018
... the Department of Energy to study only the Yucca Mountain site as a long-term storage facility for spent nuclear fuel. But over the past few years, congressional candidates say they're open to discussing a future for nuclear waste storage and/or processing in the Silver State. Should we fight nuclear wasteÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
February 12, 2018
Dean Heller, R-Nevada, after the Department of Energy made its announcement. “This is unacceptable,” said Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nevada, “because Nevada is not a wasteland.” In addition to the nuclear waste at San Onofre, about 80,000 metric tons of spent fuel has piled up at some 120 nuclear facilitiesÃÂ ...
The Augusta Chronicle
February 12, 2018
The Department of Energy's budget request for fiscal 2019 asks for money to close the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility and says the agency prefers ... Lindsey Graham told Rotarians that MOX is the best option for the country to deal with its nuclear waste, and no one has come up with a better idea yet.
ABC News
February 7, 2018
The former governor's longtime aide, Marc Johnson, said he was disappointed with Tuesday's ruling in favor of the Department of Energy, "particularly after waiting so long to see what DOE really has in mind for further waste in Idaho." The lawsuit seeks information about several hundred pounds ofÃÂ ...
Government Accountability Office
February 6, 2018
The Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) manages the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and supports ... For example, in January 2017, GAO found that the cost estimate for DOE's proposal for separate defense and commercial nuclear waste repositories excludedÃÂ ...
Santa Fe New Mexican
December 31, 1999
A federal budget proposal made by President Donald Trump for the Department of Energy could hike the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant's funding to $403 ... Congress and DOE should enact stronger oversight, he said, for WIPP and Nuclear Waste Partnership, which oversees the plant's day-to-day operations.
PRI
December 31, 1999
Editor's note: Living on Earth contacted the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore Labs, which has assessed the structural soundness of the nuclear dome, along with independent experts. The lab says external cracks don't affect the solidity of the protective cover, but will be repaired during 2018.
Motherboard
October 28, 2017
If the Department of Energy—which oversees nuclear development and funds .... How could land that was once leaking toxic nuclear waste—words that ... The DoE Office of Legacy Management's most recent quarterly Site ...
KING5.com
October 27, 2017
The Department of Energy, which owns the site, estimates that ... boxes - then transport them to a nuclear waste dump in the center of the ...
Daily Energy Insider
October 26, 2017
... Department of Energy's Nuclear Waste Program for fiscal year 2018. ... “Nuclear waste is currently stored at reactor sites and DOE facilities in ...
Bangor Daily News
October 26, 2017
As climate change fuels fears about nuclear waste, Maine looks to Trump for ... In 2008, the U.S. Department of Energy submitted a license ...
Coast News
October 20, 2017
In January, Issa introduced H.R. 474, an amendment to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, “to authorize the Department of Energy (DOE) to ...
Center for Public Integrity
October 20, 2017
"DOE's own operational challenges demonstrate a continuing need for truly ... helped push the managers of a nuclear waste cleanup project in Hanford, ... a barrier to firm oversight of contractors by the Department of Energy.
Wiscasset Newspaper
October 19, 2017
They were still trying to move Maine Yankee's nuclear waste after 20 ... the Department of Energy's failure to honor its contractual obligations to ...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
October 19, 2017
Legally, the Department of Energy is responsible for the long-term storage of the radioactive waste generated over more than three decades, ...
Engineering News-Record
October 19, 2017
Incumbent Subs Set To Replace AECOM as DOE Site Waste Lead ... management at its Savannah River nuclear-waste complex in South ...
U.S. News & World Report
October 18, 2017
This undated photo provided by the U.S. Department of Energy show ... at the U.S. nuclear waste dump in New Mexico for the first time in three ...
Natural Resources Defense Council
October 13, 2017
... try to defend the Department of Energy's (DOE) mission and priorities. ... responsible solutions for our existing nuclear waste problem before ...
Nature.com
October 10, 2017
... goes well, the facility will finally enable the US Department of Energy (DOE) to .... The DOE is bound by legal agreements and nuclear-waste ...
Charleston Post Courier
October 7, 2017
For example, a federal committee examining nuclear waste disposal options ... the CAB stated in its response to the Department of Energy request. “DOE failures to faithfully keep pace with its SRS cleanup commitments ...
KPVI News 6
December 31, 1999
IDAHO FALLS, ID -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho Site and ... said Jack Zimmerman, deputy manager for DOE's Idaho Operations ...
Nature.com
December 31, 1999
The US Department of Energy should classify and dispose of nuclear ... Reclassification of nuclear waste could make disposal simpler and cheaper. ... even more to help the US Department of Energy (DOE) address the fallout ...
Pike County News Watchman
September 16, 2017
When the public was first let in on the big plans to turn Piketon into a nuclear waste dump, it was implied ... DOE lied and reported no fractures.
Chicago Tribune
September 16, 2017
... the nuclear waste that has crippled the city economically will remain. ... energy companies have sued the Department of Energy for billions ofÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
September 16, 2017
The U.S. Department of Energy has extended a contract for the management of the government's only underground nuclear waste repository.
Tri-City Herald
September 16, 2017
Washington state is giving the Department of Energy more time to figure ... The tunnel is at serious risk of collapse, according to a DOE analysis. ... project manager for the state Department of Ecology's nuclear waste program.
Business Insider
September 8, 2017
Monte Volk, a spokesperson for SRS and DOE, emailed the following ... "Additionally, Department of Energy nuclear facilities are robustÃÂ ...
Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
September 6, 2017
The Department of Energy has missed multiple deadlines for meeting ... Utah, using Idaho's water and leaving Idahoans with the nuclear waste.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
September 5, 2017
Congressional staff members, media and Department of Energy ... of a new federal agency, removing the nuclear waste program from the DOE.
Waste Management World
September 4, 2017
Nuclear Waste RFP from US Department of Energy ... issued by the US government's Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental ManagementÃÂ ...
A.V. Club
August 21, 2017
Yep, it's nuclear waste, a ticking (or Geiger-counter-clicking) time bomb ... (Current Department of Energy head Rick Perry says he's on the caseÃÂ ...
Stars and Stripes
August 11, 2017
The Post Register reported that several hundred people gathered Thursday at the Naval Reactors Facility at the U.S. Department of Energy'sÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
August 11, 2017
The reactor was shut down in 1994. Under a legal settlement with Idaho regulators the next year, the Department of Energy pledged to have theÃÂ ...
E&E News
August 9, 2017
The Department of Energy is getting ready to ramp up, too. ... and the development of an interim nuclear waste storage program, according to a ... The DOE's safety analysis says that the use of piddle packs, which allow fighterÃÂ ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal
August 8, 2017
3, 2017, to be the deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy. ... application to store high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. ... Brouillette, who served at the DOE in the George W. Bush administrationÃÂ ...
Power Engineering Magazine
August 7, 2017
... the Department of Energy ("DOE"), the Department of Defense ("DOD"), ... The Company operates four nuclear waste treatment facilities andÃÂ ...
Daily Energy Insider
August 7, 2017
... the failure of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Nuclear ... “The Nuclear Waste Fund is needed to pay for the used fuelÃÂ ...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
August 6, 2017
... in the area surrounding the Department of Energy Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. ... a deep geologic repository for defense-related nuclear waste, was ... were the first to detect and notify the public and DOE about the release.
World Nuclear News
August 4, 2017
... the Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). ... "The Nuclear Waste Fund is needed to pay for the used fuelÃÂ ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal
August 4, 2017
3, 2017, to be the deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy. ... in any effort to revive the nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain was ... D-Nev., both voted against the nomination over concerns that DOE and theÃÂ ...
Chillicothe Gazette
July 29, 2017
The Record of Decision shows that the Department of Energy did ... construction of the facility, which he prefers to call a nuclear waste dump.
Vanity Fair
July 26, 2017
The Department of Energy staff planned to deliver the same talks from the ... Two weeks after the election the Obama people inside the D.O.E. read in the ..... But the best argument for shoving together the Manhattan Project with nuclear-wasteÃÂ ...
Aiken Standard
July 25, 2017
"They (the recommendations) get sent to the Department of Energy," said Spinelli. ... According to the proposal, The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, set ... The recommendation of CAB to the DOE was to not consider SRS asÃÂ ...
The Washington Spectator (blog)
July 13, 2017
Bush's Department of Energy applied to the NRC in June 2008 for a license to develop the waste site at Yucca Mountain, which the DOE hadÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 1999
Although there still are no federally licensed nuclear waste dumps, despite ... As for truly permanent storage, the U.S. Department of Energy'sÃÂ ...
Idaho State Journal
December 31, 1999
The Post Register reports that several hundred people gathered last week at the Naval Reactors Facility at the U.S. Department of Energy's siteÃÂ ...
Union of Concerned Scientists
December 31, 1999
... request reveal that the Department of Energy (DOE) has spent more ... by generating three distinct types of nuclear waste, Lyman points out.
MENAFN.COM
March 12, 2017
... the Trump Administration and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Energy Secretary Perry to enact a comprehensive program for used nuclear fuel and high-level waste storage including immediate steps to re-establish the DOE's 'vacated' Office ...
