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The year in review 2020: Waste Management

January 8, 2021, 2:50PMRadwaste Solutions

Here is a look back at the top stories of 2020 from our Waste Management section in Newswire and Nuclear News magazine. Remember to check back to Newswire soon for more top stories from 2020.

Waste Management section

First-ever cleanup of uranium enrichment plant celebrated at Oak Ridge: The completion of the decades-long effort to clean up the former Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant was celebrated on October 13, with Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette joining U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, and other state and community leaders at the East Tennessee Technology Park, where the uranium enrichment complex once stood. Read more.

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GAO: DOE should pause work on Hanford’s HLW Facility

October 3, 2024, 9:30AMRadwaste Solutions

The Government Accountability Office has recommended that the Department of Energy put a hold on construction of its High-Level Waste Facility at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash. The GAO...

BWXT fuel processing subsidiary pauses operations amid Hurricane Helene; site is "safe"

October 1, 2024, 12:00PMNuclear News

BWX Technologies subsidiary Nuclear Fuel Services Inc. suspended operations last Friday at a Tennessee facility to assess conditions following Hurricane Helene. A company spokesperson said the...

Palisades to receive $3B in federal, state funding to fuel plant restart

Nuclear stakeholders celebrate “powerful clean energy comeback story”

September 30, 2024, 3:00PMNuclear News

With a $1.52 billion loan from the Department of Energy and $1.3 billion in grants to rural electric cooperatives near the plant, the ambitious plans to restart Michigan’s Palisades nuclear...

Keeping up with Kewaunee

Decommissioning begins on the closed Wisconsin power plant

October 4, 2024, 3:14PMRadwaste Solutions

In October 2012, Dominion Energy announced it was closing the Kewaunee nuclear power plant, a two-loop 574-MWe pressurized water reactor located about 27 miles southeast of Green Bay, Wis., on...

Biden appoints six new NWTRB members

October 2, 2024, 3:01PMRadwaste Solutions

President Biden has announced the appointment of six new members to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, an independent federal agency that evaluates the technical and scientific validity...

NNSA takes over as Savannah River Site landlord

October 2, 2024, 9:31AMNuclear News

Nearly six years after it was first announced, the Department of Energy has transitioned landlord responsibilities at the Savannah River Site from the Office of Environmental Management to the...

New uranium and fluorine detection method set to boost nuclear safeguards

October 1, 2024, 9:30AMNuclear News

By combining two techniques, analytical chemists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have for the first time simultaneously detected fluorine and different uranium isotopes in a single particle....

Atomic Canyon preps open-source nuclear search tool for release

September 30, 2024, 12:01PMNuclear News

Atomic Canyon is developing a generative AI search for the nuclear energy sector and is working with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to get it done. On September 26,...

NRC seeks input on DRP contamination guidance

September 30, 2024, 9:30AMRadwaste Solutions

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is soliciting public comment on the agency’s guidance for addressing discrete radioactive particle (DRP) contamination resulting from the decontamination...

From remediation to production: The DOE’s Cleanup to Clean Energy initiative

September 20, 2024, 3:10PMRadwaste Solutions

On July 28, 2023, the Department of Energy launched its Cleanup to Clean Energy initiative, an effort to repurpose underutilized DOE-owned property—portions of which were previously used in...

The year in review 2020: Waste Management

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