Preparations are being made to enclose, or “cocoon,” the K East Reactor, the seventh of nine former reactors at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site. The cocooning project is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
Watch this video for more on the project.
DOE, NRC prepare for government shutdown
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Deep Isolation licenses its disposal technology to fed contractor Navarro
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Centrus says Ohio stands to gain 300 jobs as enrichers await federal contracts
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NEDHO: A conversation with Seungjin Kim
Recently, Nuclear Engineering Department Heads Organization Chair Seungjin Kim talked with Nuclear News about NEDHO’s current condition, governmental funding for NEDHO and university...
Garrish is NE-1 and Williams leads the NNSA following Senate vote
Theodore “Ted” Garrish is the Department of Energy’s assistant secretary for nuclear energy and Brandon Williams is the DOE’s undersecretary for nuclear security and administrator of...
Senate confirms Ted Garrish as Assistant Secretary of Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy.
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NNSA awards BWXT $1.5B defense fuels contract
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded BWX Technologies a contract valued at $1.5 billion to build a Domestic Uranium Enrichment Centrifuge...
