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...
08.18.2008 | By Jeff Beattie
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Thursday that agency staff has proposed to fine Global Nuclear Fuel-Americas LLC $16,250 for actions surrounding the January 30 discovery that moisture had seeped into a drying hopper containing uranium dioxide...
08.18.2008 | By George Lobsenz
A nuclear waste-handling building associated with a plutonium conversion facility at the Energy Department's Savannah River Site does not have adequate safeguards against a "red oil" explosion and is not designed to contain chemical and radiological...
08.14.2008
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday that it sent a special inspection team to the Palisades Nuclear Power Station in Michigan August 7 to investigate an incident in which five people were briefly trapped in the plant's containment area while they...
08.13.2008 | By Jeff Beattie
Substantially expanding its reach in the U.S. market for nuclear fuel processing and other specialized nuclear material operations, Babcock & Wilcox Co. announced Monday that it has struck a deal to acquire Nuclear Fuels Services and its fuel fabrication...
08.12.2008
Democratic leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee asked Congressional auditors Friday to look into the speed and efficacy of the National Nuclear Security Administration's efforts to consolidate and convert worldwide stockpiles of high enriched...
08.11.2008 | By George Lobsenz
In a first for the Energy Department's nuclear cleanup program, workers at the Savannah River Site last month began spraying acid into two underground storage tanks for high-level radioactive waste in an effort to wash away lumps of hardened waste stuck to...
08.08.2008 | By Jeff Beattie
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Justice Department won a substantial court victory last week in a long-running conflict-of-interest case against a major federal contractor, as a federal jury concluded that Science Applications International Corp...
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