08.21.2008 | By George Lobsenz
The contractor building the massive radioactive waste processing plant at the Energy Department's Hanford site is once again under investigation by DOE for the same kind of quality assurance problems that have been cited in two previous enforcement actions by...
08.20.2008 | By Jeff Beattie
Despite recent criticism about delays in enforcing its fire protection rules--and stiff objections from one commissioner--the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Tuesday approved a six-month extension of a "discretionary" enforcement policy that could...
08.19.2008
Alice Williams, the National Nuclear Security Administration's associate administrator for infrastructure and environment, has been named the new manager of the site office overseeing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the semi-autonomous Energy...
08.04.2008
In a major step forward with the U.S.-India civilian nuclear agreement, the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency Friday approved a nuclear safeguards agreement that will bring 14 Indian reactors under IAEA inspection to assure they are...
07.28.2008 | By Jeff Beattie
In a move that may boost the odds for congressional approval of the U.S.-Russia cooperative agreement on civilian nuclear power, the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week passed legislation supporting the deal subject to various conditions, primarily that...
07.24.2008
In what appears to be a first for the federal agency, President Bush has named Ambrose Schwallie, formerly a top contractor official in the Energy Department's nuclear weapons complex, to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Schwallie, a Westinghouse...
07.23.2008 | By Jeff Beattie
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh won a crucial vote late Tuesday from the Indian Parliament in support of the controversial U.S.-India nuclear deal, which would open a major market to U.S. firms and give India access to U.S. nuclear technology and reactor...
07.18.2008 | By George Lobsenz
The National Nuclear Security Administration's effort to develop a consolidation plan for the Energy Department's nuclear weapons complex has been hobbled by the failure of the Defense Department and NNSA to set clear warhead requirements for the future...
07.17.2008 | By Jeff Beattie
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's new streamlined process for approving new nuclear plants is in danger of delays because NRC is having difficulty obtaining timely information from reactor vendors seeking NRC certification of the new plant designs that...
07.17.2008
French officials have scolded an Areva subsidiary for allowing uranium-laden water to spill into a sewer and a stream in southern France near the Tricastin Nuclear Power Center--and for not informing safety regulators more fully about the incident, which led...
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