NuScale ready to submit reactor design to NRC The Post
Register January 9,
2017 NuScale Power is a step closer to seeing its nuclear reactor built in eastern Idaho after completing a 12,000-page design application for federal regulators last month.
NuScale executives plan to deliver the document describing the first-of-its-kind small modular reactor
design to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday in Washington, D.C. Several companies have researched small modular reactors, but none has made it so far in the expensive planning and testing process — and none has submitted a design to the NRC.
Company officials plan a formal
announcement of the milestone later Thursday in the capital. Lynn Orr, undersecretary for science and energy, is scheduled to speak.
“Most of the people in the industry didn’t believe we’d get it done,” Mike McGough, NuScale’s chief commercial officer said, in a Monday interview. “Sometimes we
weren’t sure we would, either.” >>Continue readingDemand for clean energy inspires new generation to innovate nuclear power PBS News Hour January 4,
2017 The next generation of
nuclear power is coming, as concerns about climate change bring the industry out of hibernation. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports on how new startups and young scientists are hoping to develop solutions for safely generating vast amounts of nuclear energy. >>View video here CONTRACTING &
ACQUISITION Contract Awarded for Technical Support at Department of Energy Environmental Management (EM) Sites Across the DOE
Complex DOE January 9, 2017 Cincinnati - The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of a Time and Materials, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to SUNSi JV, LLC, of Pocatello, ID. SUNSi JV, LLC is a Small Business. The contract will have a maximum value of up to $4 million over 5 years. Work performed under this contract will be performed at various EM sites across the DOE complex. The Contractor will provide the support in the following areas:
Quality Assurance, Safety (including nuclear safety), Radiological Protection, Emergency Management, Safeguards and Security, Project Management and Project Controls, Engineering, and Waste Management. >>Continue reading UCOR, DOE cleanup contractor in Oak Ridge, earns 94 percent of award fee Oak Ridge Today January 5,
2017 UCOR, the U.S. Department of Energy’s cleanup contractor in Oak Ridge, received about $3.4 million for its performance from April through September 2016, or 94 percent of the total award fee available, federal officials said.
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management, or OREM, recently issued the six-month fee determination scorecard for UCOR, or URS | CH2M Oak Ridge LLC, after completing its evaluation.
“Contractor award fee evaluations determine what will be paid based on performance against stated objectives in accordance with annual award fee plans,” the DOE Office of Environmental Management, or EM, said in the EM Update electronic newsletter on December 29. “EM releases information relating to contractor fee payments to further
transparency.” >>Continue readingWill Rick Perry bring high-level radioactive waste to Texas? My Statesman January 8, 2017 As governor, Rick Perry urged the federal government to make Texas the repository for highly radioactive waste from around the
nation.
The company that most stood to benefit had an owner who was one of the top donors to Perry’s
campaigns.
Now Perry is President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be U.S. energy secretary — putting him in prime position to influence who gets permission to build the highly lucrative radioactive waste
facility.
Among other things, the U.S. Energy Department oversees radioactive waste disposal.
The politically connected Texas company Waste Control Specialists, whose late owner was a stalwart backer of Perry’s, wants to develop a facility in West Texas’ remote Andrews County that
could store spent fuel from the nation’s nuclear power plants. >>Continue reading Yucca Mountain: Conflict looms for Trump between hotel and waste site E&E
News January 10, 2017 Floor-to-ceiling windows. A day spa. Valet parking. Those are some of the perks at the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas. Could a view of rail cars hauling nuclear waste be
next?
President-elect Donald Trump's luxury Sin City spot and Yucca Mountain — the supposedly defunct desert repository that
many in the nuclear industry want to revive — could be on a collision course.
Yucca Mountain critics are pushing more and more to remind Trump that the project would devastate Nevada tourism, including his own hotel. But some former DOE officials and proponents of the project dismiss those concerns, saying nuclear waste bound for the repository would never come close to Trump's
property.
The incoming president and his Las Vegas hotel, which he co-owns with billionaire
businessman Phil Ruffin, add another twist to the decades-old saga of Yucca Mountain. It's also a possible multimillion-dollar conflict of interest for Trump as his administration weighs what to do with the waste site. >>Continue reading |
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| January 2017 | | 12 | Environmental
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| January 2017 | | 18 | Environmental
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| January 2017 | | 23-24 | Environmental Management Site Specific Advisory Board Meeting, Savannah River
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| January 2017 | | 25 | Environmental Management Site Specific Advisory Board Meeting, Northern New Mexico Ohkay Owingeh, NM |
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| February 2017 | | 23-24 | ECA Annual Meeting Washington, DC "Meeting the New Administration: Addressing Community Priorities and Securing Progress" |
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| March 2017 | | 5-9 | Waste Management Conference Phoenix, AZ
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| May/June 2017 | | 31-1 | INVITATION ONLY ECA Peer
Exchange Richland, WA "Formalizing Host Communities' Role in the Manhattan Project National Historical Park" |
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