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The US Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management achieved most of its goals for calendar year 2022, with all but three of the priorities on its mission "scorecard" for the year complete or partially complete. All six of its primary mission areas have received increased funding under the recently enacted budget for fiscal 2023.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 14 January 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-cleanup-mission-looks-to-build-on-2022-success
US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) crews have begun emplacing defence-related transuranic (TRU) waste in Panel 8 of EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 26 November 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-emplaces-waste-at-new-panel-in-wipp-and-expands-idaho-disposal-facility-10384419
The first transuranic waste has been placed in a new panel at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico. Meanwhile, the capacity of a landfill disposal facility for waste and radioactively contaminated debris from decontamination and demolition work at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is to be increased.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 24 November 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-facilities-mark-waste-disposal-progress
Shipments of nuclear waste from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) site in eastern Idaho to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad in New Mexico have resumed following three episodes that caused New Mexico officials to suspend them. A DOE official has told Idaho officials that the New Mexico Environment Department had approved shipments from the 2,300 km2 site, which includes the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 20 October 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsidaho-resumes-waste-shipments-to-us-wipp-facility-10098266
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on 13 September granted a licence to Interim Storage Partners (ISP) to build and operate a a consolidated interim storage facility for used nuclear fuel in Andrews, Texas. The decision is causing tension with state officials in Texas, where opposition to nuclear waste storage has been increasing.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 17 September 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnrc-grants-licence-for-used-fuel-storage-in-texas-sparking-opposition-9086726
The US-led Leaders’ Summit on Climate, held on 22 and 23 April as a video conference, attracted 40 world leaders (presidents and prime ministers) including Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Also taking part were some 24 other speakers at ministerial level (environment, defence, economy) in addition to Pope Francis and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, as well as almost 40 heads of environmental organisations, indigenous communities and leading businessmen, including Bill Gates. The event coincided with Earth Day, an annual event first held in 1970.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 27 April 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsleaders-summit-on-climate-attracts-world-leaders-businessmen-and-environmentalists-8699323
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for Holtec International's proposed consolidated HI-STORE interim storage facility (CISF) and made a preliminary recommendation that there are no environmental impacts that would preclude it from issuing a licence for environmental reasons. Holtec proposes initially to store 500 canisters holding around 8680 tonnes of used nuclear fuel at the New Mexico site.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 13 March 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-regulators-issue-draft-EIS-on-consolidated-used
US President Barack Obama wants to scrap the Department of Energy's project at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina that was designed to take plutonium no longer needed for nuclear weapons and turn it into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 10 February 2016
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Obama-seeks-to-terminate-MOX-project-at-Savannah-R