A retired USGS geologist shares his experience of working on the publicly misunderstood nuclear waste repository and its geology.
Preparations made to remove radioactive debris from Hanford reactor basin
Workers at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., recently completed testing a mock-up of a system that will be used to isolate and stabilize about 15,000 pounds of...
Granholm urged to form nuclear waste management office within DOE
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other prominent nuclear organizations in submitting a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm requesting that the Department of Energy establish...
NWTRB offers six recommendations to spur U.S. nuclear waste management program
The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB), created by Congress to evaluate the technical and scientific validity of the Department of Energy’s work related to the management and...
$163 million contract awarded for WIPP ventilation system
Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP), the management and operations contractor for the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico, announced that it has awarded...
Shipments of TRU waste to WIPP resume
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico is once again accepting shipments and processing transuranic waste following a two-month annual maintenance outage. According to the...
Dickman sheds light on Fukushima wastewater issue during CNBC interview
Paul Dickman, former senior official with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission who served as the study director for the ANS Special Committee on the Fukushima Daiichi accident, discussed...
The New Republican podcast features ANS policy guru John Starkey
ANS government relations director John Starkey was a recent guest on the podcast The New Republican. Starkey discussed a range of topics with podcast host Lincoln Wallis in the 30-minute...
Next decade of DOE cleanup outlined in updated strategic vision
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) has released its Strategic Vision 2021-2031 (hereinafter referred to as the 2021 Strategic Vision), a blueprint to the...
Stanford scholars: Breaking U.S. nuclear waste stalemate could be key to Biden’s climate goals
Saying they are cautiously optimistic that the Biden administration can change the U.S. trajectory on nuclear waste, some Stanford University experts have offered their recommendations on how...
Rep. Newhouse urges DOE to uphold HLW interpretation
In a letter written to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R., Wash.) has urged the Department of Energy to maintain its 2019 interpretation of high-level radioactive waste....