ENERGY COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE
Building Nuclear Workforce Development Initiatives in Communities
ECA Staff | 8/20/2019
SAVE THE DATE!
ECA is hosting a webinar on Monday, January 25th from 12:00 PM to 3:15 PM EST.
This webinar is the third in a series focused on outlining workforce development challenges across the DOE complex, what the current needs are, how best to prepare a workforce for the future, and how to apply lessons learned from successful workforce initiatives around the sites. This discussion will focus on how to work with DOE on existing and new workforce development goals, identifying the needs of small businesses engaged in
environmental management missions, and feature a case study of how communities and contractors are successfully addressing workforce development in Oak Ridge, TN.
Registration is free.
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CLEANUP
This way to treat Hanford radioactive waste could save $210 billion. But is it safe enough?
Tri-City Herald | 1/7/2021
Turning millions of gallons of waste into a concrete-like grout form also could cut 10 years off the time needed to treat radioactive waste now stored in underground tanks and permanently dispose of it, the DOE report estimated.
DOE recently submitted a report to Congress on potential opportunities for different ways to treat waste now held at Hanford and other DOE nuclear sites.
REACTOR
DOE Announces Next Step in Micro-Reactor Development
DOE | 1/8/2021
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the start of a 14-day public review and comment period on a draft environmental assessment for a proposal to construct the Microreactor Applications Research Validation & EvaLuation (MARVEL) project microreactor inside Idaho National Laboratory's (INL's) Transient Reactor Test Facility.
The MARVEL design is a sodium-potassium-cooled, thermal microreactor with a power level of less than 100 kilowatts of electricity using High-Assay, Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU).
"Nuclear energy has always been a reliable power source that doesn't emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere," said Idaho National Laboratory Director John Wagner. "MARVEL takes the next step. It will provide for prompt, small-scale demonstrations of several environmentally friendly technologies associated with advanced microreactors as well as larger reactors, which will benefit the nuclear energy
industry and end-users."
A Draft Environmental Assessment can be found here.
OFFICE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL
Read about DOE's High Level Waste Interpretation
Have questions about DOE’s recent high-level waste (HLW) interpretation? Download ECA’s Key Points and FAQs on the issue to better understand what ECA believes are the potential benefits of implementation.
Interested in learning more? Read the ECA report “Making Informed Decisions on DOE's Proposed High Level Waste Definition” at www.energyca.org/publications
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Learn More about Cleanup Sites with ECA's DOE Site Profiles
ECA's new site profiles detail DOE's 13 active Environmental Management cleanup sites and national laboratories, highlighting their history, missions, and priorities. The profiles are a key source for media, stakeholders, and the public to learn more about DOE site activities, contractors, advisory boards, and their surrounding local
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