Tag Archives: Department of Energy (DOE)

FEDERAL AGENCIES DOE posters trigger whistleblower guidance via E&E News

Posted on 2018/02/21 by nfield

More than six months after posters went up at the Energy Department warning “every leak makes us weak,” federal officials have removed them and published new guidance for protecting whistleblowers. The Office of Special Counsel earlier this month confirmed the … Continue reading →

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Federal auditors say US nuclear dump running out of room via ABC News

Posted on 2017/09/08 by nfield

The only underground nuclear waste repository in the United States doesn’t have enough space for radioactive tools, clothing and other debris left over from decades of bomb-making and research, much less tons of weapons-grade plutonium that the nation has agreed … Continue reading →

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Settlement Reached To Move San Onofre Nuclear Waste via CBS Los Angeles

Posted on 2017/08/30 by nfield

SAN CLEMENTE (CBSLA.com/AP) – Southern California Edison has agreed to make a good faith effort to relocate 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste away from the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, bringing an end to a nearly two-year legal battle … Continue reading →

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Hanford workers exposed to vapors could seek help at proposed center via Tri-City Herald

Posted on 2017/07/25 by nfield

The Department of Energy would be required to establish a resource center to help Hanford workers exposed to chemical vapors, under proposed federal legislation. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, both D-Wash., inserted the requirement into the appropriations bill that … Continue reading →

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Hanford nuclear site accident puts focus on aging US facilities via Raw Story (Reuters)

Posted on 2017/05/14 by nfield

The collapse of a tunnel used to store radioactive waste at one of the most contaminated U.S. nuclear sites has raised concerns among watchdog groups and others who study the country’s nuclear facilities because many are aging and fraught with … Continue reading →

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Dems blast DOE study as biased toward coal, nuclear via The Hill

Posted on 2017/05/01 by nfield

A group of Senate Democrats slammed the Department of Energy’s (DOE) ongoing electric grid reliability study as biased toward power sources such as coal and nuclear. The Democrats, who all sit on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said … Continue reading →

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Paper claims no filtration needed at WIPP via Current-Argus

Posted on 2017/04/02 by nfield

Researchers at the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring & Research Center believe Waste Isolation Pilot Plant officials are being unnecessarily cautious by continuing to filter air leaving the underground. […] A paper presented in March at the 2017 Waste Management Conference in Phoenix claims … Continue reading →

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JUDGE: TRUCKS CARRYING LIQUID RADIOACTIVE WASTE CAN ROLL　via Sierra

Posted on 2017/02/05 by nfield

A judge has given the U.S. Department of Energy the green light to begin transporting highly radioactive liquid waste from Ontario, Canada, to South Carolina, but opponents of the shipments say the fight is not over yet. The Sierra Club … Continue reading →

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4 companies chosen to pursue nuclear waste burial test via Artesia Daily Press

Posted on 2016/12/20 by nfield

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Four companies will pursue the possibility of conducting a test to determine whether nuclear waste can be buried far underground, federal energy officials announced Monday, months after two prospective sites in the Dakotas were abandoned … Continue reading →

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Laser enrichment moving ahead with DOE selling 300,000 tonnes of depleted uranium to GE Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment via Next Big Future

Posted on 2016/11/11 by norma field

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has agreed to sell around 300,000 tonnes of depleted uranium hexafluoride to GE Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) for re-enrichment at a proposed plant to be built near DOE’s Paducah site in Kentucky. The agreement … Continue reading →

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