03.05.2010 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
Using tough words that signal a growing political mess for the Obama administration, a senior Senate Democrat told Energy Secretary Steven Chu Thursday that it was “irresponsible” for his agency to seek to permanently withdraw its application to...
03.03.2010 | BY JEFF BEATTIE
Two days after a federal court ordered the U.S. government to pay a Washington state utility $57 million in damages stemming from the government’s failure to open the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, leading Democratic and Republican...
03.03.2010
John Woolery, a top contractor official at the Energy Department’s Pantex plant in Texas since 2003, has been named president and general manager of Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Pantex LLC, which operates the nuclear warhead assembly and...
03.02.2010
The National Nuclear Security Administration said Thursday it has signed an interagency agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority to evaluate the use of fuel made from surplus U.S. weapons plutonium in the federal utility’s Sequoyah and Browns Ferry...
03.01.2010
Having lost a tussle with the White House over funding next year to close and archive records from the nuclear waste repository project, the Energy Department told congressional appropriators earlier this month that it plans to reshuffle $115 million dollars...
02.26.2010
South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster this week announced he would take action at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and in federal court to block the Energy Department from permanently withdrawing its application for an NRC license to build and...
02.24.2010 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
Saying it would save more than $1 billion compared to “traditional” decommissioning methods, the Energy Department said Tuesday it was moving ahead with a $297.5 million project to close in place “for centuries” two contaminated...
02.22.2010 | BY JEFF BEATTIE
In an abrupt and largely unexplained leadership change, EnergySolutions Inc. announced early Friday morning that its board of directors had accepted the resignation of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Steve Creamer and named Val John Christensen, the...
02.22.2010
South Carolina’s Aiken County sued the Obama administration Friday over its decision to scuttle the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, saying two agencies are violating several laws in killing a project that the county said is needed to...
02.19.2010 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
In the first legal action in the controversy, three individuals living and working near the Energy Department’s heavily contaminated Hanford site in eastern Washington Thursday sued the Obama administration over its decision to kill the Yucca Mountain...
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