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Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cladding: Innovative Materials Enhance Fleet Safety and Performance
The Department of Energy has issued a final request for proposals for a 10-year, $3 billion management and operating contract for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. The current M&O contract, held by Nuclear Waste Partnership, expires on September 30.
Idaho successfully tests robot to help retrieve radioactive waste
A team with the Department of Energy’s Idaho Cleanup Project successfully tested robotic equipment being developed to retrieve radioactive calcine, a granular solid waste, at the Idaho...
Savannah River reaches regulatory milestone on tank waste closure
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management said it has reached a regulatory milestone ahead of schedule in preparing radioactive waste tanks for closure at the Savannah...
Here is a recap of industry happenings from the recent past:ADVANCED REACTOR MARKETPLACE Mission of Gen IV International Forum is extendedA framework agreement to continue the Generation IV...
Robertson to stay on as head of DOE-EM
Candice Robertson will continue to lead the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management and will become office’s principal deputy assistant secretary, the Energy Communities...
DOE-EM awards $37.5M to Vanderbilt University for nuclear cleanup support
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced on January 16 that it has awarded a noncompetitive financial assistance agreement worth $37.5 million to Vanderbilt...
GAO: NNSA needs to improve its waste management strategy
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s strategy for managing nuclear waste from nuclear weapons maintenance and modernization activities is not comprehensive and does not fully...
CLEAN SMART Act introduced to accelerate cleanup of DOE legacy sites
Legislation that aims to leverage the best available science and technology of U.S. national laboratories to support the cleanup of legacy nuclear waste has been introduced in the Senate by...
Groundwater demonstration begins on Oak Ridge disposal facility project
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR) have finished fieldwork and have begun monitoring groundwater...
Idaho finds solutions to challenges posed by aging waste drums
The Department of Energy’s Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) has improved transuranic waste operations to address aging waste containers being stored at the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project...
Idaho’s IWTU surpasses tank waste treatment goal
As of last week, crews with Department of Energy cleanup contractor Idaho Environmental Coalition (IEC) processed more than 142,000 gallons of radioactive sodium-bearing tank waste at...
