ENERGY COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE
EXCITING SPEAKER LINE-UP FOR HIGH LEVEL WASTE WEBINAR
ECA will be hosting a webinar on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 from 12:00PM to 4:00PM ET. The webinar will include discussions on DOE cleanup priorities, how Congress plans to address nuclear waste, storage options, and what to expect in the incoming Biden administration.
Registration is free.
Please find below the speaker list. ECA welcomes:
- Mark Gilbertson, Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regulatory and Policy Affairs
- Kara Colton, Director of Nuclear Policy, ECA
- Bob Thompson, Councilmember, City of Richland, WA
- Rebecca Casper, Mayor, City of Idaho Falls, ID
- JJ Chavez, Councilmember, City of Carlsbad, NM
- Rick McLeod, President/CEO, Savannah River Site Community Reuse Organization
- David Klaus, Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation
- Dr. Matt Bowen, Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University/SIPA
- Jim Hamilton, Founder and Executive Director, Nuclear Decommissioning Collaborative (Invited)
- Mary Louise Wagner, Government Affairs Senior Advisor, Deep Isolation
- Tim Smith, President, Governmental Strategies, Inc.
A full agenda can be found here.
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NUCLEAR WASTE
SRS transfers spent nuclear fuel, opening space for mission work
Aiken Standard | 2/5/2021
EM workers at the Savannah River Site recently began transferring dissolved spent nuclear fuel to a waste processing facility two years early, freeing tank space at a chemical separations facility and reducing the inventory of the fuel in a basin at the site.
The spent nuclear fuel from the Sodium Reactor Experiment has been stored at the H Canyon Chemical Separations Facility since 2012, awaiting transfer to the Defense Waste Processing Facility, which had been planned for 2022.
The material contained high levels of thorium that could not be processed into low enriched uranium like other spent nuclear fuel processed in H Canyon. The Sodium Reactor Experiment is a former nuclear power plant in California.
“The need for H Canyon space for future missions presented an opportunity for H Canyon to work with the SRS liquid waste contractor, Savannah River Remediation, to manage a discard of the Sodium Reactor Experiment material two years early,” said Eloy Saldivar, H Canyon project manager for SRS management and operations contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions.
HEALTH AND SAFETY
REACTORS
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