03.17.2010 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
The National Nuclear Security Administration has approved safety analyses for Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium facility that allow accidents that could result in worst-case radiation exposures to the public exceeding Energy Department...
03.17.2010
State regulators filed a protest at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Monday over the Energy Department’s recent decision to scuttle the Yucca Mountain nuclear repository project, calling the move an “incredible waste” of billions of dollars...
03.16.2010
Eight years after a grave nozzle-cracking and corrosion problem that threatened the plant in 2002, First Energy Corp. announced Monday that it has discovered less-serious cracking in 13 nozzles atop the new lid of its Davis-Besse nuclear reactor in Ohio...
03.16.2010
Six months after they stepped back from a similar reassignment amid swirling controversy, officials in the Energy Department’s environmental management office have announced that Jeff Allison, the DOE manager of the Savannah River Site for the past...
03.15.2010 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
Moving to extinguish an issue that is increasingly troublesome for the nuclear industry--and drawing growing attention from regulators—Exelon Generation Corp. announced last week it will pay $1.176 million to settle three civil complaints filed by state...
03.11.2010 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
The former Republican chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the Obama administration’s decision to terminate the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository does not appear to be based on “factual findings” and its...
03.11.2010 | BY JEFF BEATTIE
Saying the Energy Department should immediately take the waste back to its Savannah River Site in South Carolina, two antinuclear groups last week charged that recent DOE shipments of depleted uranium to Utah for disposal violated state and federal law...
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...
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