Forging a Path Forward on U.S. Nuclear Waste Management: Options for Policy Makers by Matt Bowen |January 28, 2021
Nuclear power is considered in many countries a critical facet to maintaining reliable access to electricity during a global transition to low-carbon energy sources. One challenge to its potential in the United States, however, is the current standstill regarding a disposal pathway for spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors. This impasse has a negative bearing on nuclear energy’s ability to supply more zero-carbon electricity and may cost U.S. taxpayers tens of billions of dollars in government liability for failing to meet contractual obligations to take possession of the waste from utilities.
N3B, Triad Cooperate To Ship Radioactive Waste To WIPP - 10:46 am
Jan. 14 marks the first comingled TRU waste shipment by N3B and Triad to WIPP. Courtesy/N3B
N3B/Triad News:
N3B and Triad have successfully partnered to combine transuranic (TRU) waste shipment for additional efficiency.
The shipment, loaded at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) Radioassay and Nondestructive Testing (RANT) facility at Technical Area 54, comingled legacy and new generation radioactive waste, resulting in more efficient shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).
Jan. 14 marked the first comingled shipment by N3B and Triad to WIPP.
AIKEN, South Carolina – The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) will hold two virtual public scoping meetings on a new
Los Alamos National Laboratory 2020 Year In Review
By CAROL A. CLARK
caclark@ladailypost.com
Looking back over 2020, Director Thom Mason said it is the 13,000 Laboratory employees that he is most proud of … how they have stepped up and met the challenges of a global pandemic.
LANL Director Thom Mason
Just shifting that large number of employees from working onsite to working remotely was quite an endeavor and Mason commended the employees on having adapted so well.
“Those employees that had to be onsite were safer by not having more people here,” he said during a recent interview with the Los Alamos Daily Post.