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Hanford completes cleanup at Plutonium Finishing Plant

January 12, 2022, 3:00PMRadwaste Solutions

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Department of Energy contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company recently completed final demolition activities at the Hanford Site’s former Plutonium Finishing Plant, which was once one of the most hazardous facilities in the DOE’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) cleanup complex.

Check out this time-lapse video of the plant’s demolition from October 2016 through November 2021.

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NRC proposes rule changes in response to EO

December 11, 2025, 3:00PMNuclear News

In April, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14270, “Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting To Unleash American Energy,” which calls for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (along with...

Atomic museum benefits from L&A donation

December 9, 2025, 3:00PMANS Nuclear Cafe

Longenecker & Associates has announced a $500,000 pledge from John and Bonnie Longenecker to the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nev. The contribution will strengthen the...

Deep Fission to break ground this week

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With about seven months left in the race to bring DOE-authorized test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, via the Reactor Pilot Program, Deep Fission has announced that it will break ground on...

Project delivers a universal waste canister for advanced reactors

December 4, 2025, 3:45PMRadwaste Solutions

Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation Nuclear has announced the completion of a three-year project to manufacture, physically test, and validate a disposal-ready universal...

Project Pele progress: BWXT delivers fuel to INL

December 4, 2025, 12:00PMNuclear News

This week, BWX Technologies, alongside Idaho National Laboratory and the Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office, announced the arrival of a full core of TRISO fuel at INL’s...

ANS hosts webinar on uranium mill tailing facilities

December 1, 2025, 7:02AMANS News

The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) has held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series. Former...

White House to consolidate data and research under AI-driven Genesis Mission

November 26, 2025, 9:49AMNuclear News

One of the executive orders issued by President Trump in November —“Launching the Genesis Mission”—focuses on a national effort to accelerate the use of AI in scientific research. The...

The DOE reorganization’s impact on nuclear

November 26, 2025, 7:00AMNuclear News

In a recent press release, the Department of Energy announced an organizational realignment aimed at “expanding American energy production, accelerating scientific and technological...

My story: Abraham Weitzberg, ANS member since 1962

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My first exposure to nuclear engineering was in 1956–57 when I was a fourth-year chemical engineering undergraduate at MIT. The previous summer, I worked at an oil refinery in New Jersey...

Mentor-protégé agreement awarded for Hanford Site

November 7, 2025, 7:01AMRadwaste Solutions

California-based Advetage Solutions has been awarded a mentor-protégé agreement with Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo), the maintenance and operations contractor for cleanup activities...

Hanford completes cleanup at Plutonium Finishing Plant

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