Wayne Barber

Shenandoah Valley

Reporter at ExchangeMonitor

Exchange Monitor reporter covering radioactive waste cleanup. Watcher of too much ESPN. RTs are not endorsements.

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Any nuclear industry boom contingent on execution, panel says - ExchangeMonitor

2 days ago | exchangemonitor.com | Trey Rorie |Wayne Barber

Opportunities for nuclear deployment are available, but the extent of the industry’s expansion remains to be seen, nuclear insiders said during a Columbia University webinar. Former deputy secretary of Joe Biden’s Department of Energy (DOE) Dave Turk led a… Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. Not a subscriber? Click here to sign up for a FREE six-week trial and receive access to this article, along with our entire archives.
Ontario Power Generation awards contract for Darlington SMR - ExchangeMonitor

1 week ago | exchangemonitor.com | Wayne Barber |Trey Rorie

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GAO: Environmental Management needs integrated waste disposal plan - ExchangeMonitor

1 week ago | exchangemonitor.com | Wayne Barber

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DOE, Bechtel enhance simulant to test vitrification of liquid tank waste - ExchangeMonitor

1 week ago | exchangemonitor.com | Wayne Barber

The Department of Energy and Bechtel National said Tuesday they have taken another incremental step in cold commissioning of a multi-billion-dollar plant to convert liquid radioactive tank waste into a solid glass form at the Hanford Site in Washington state. Ammonia and nitrous oxide-producing chemicals are being introduced into the melters for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at Hanford.
Savannah River Site MOX settlement money pays for local waste station - ExchangeMonitor

1 week ago | exchangemonitor.com | Wayne Barber

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Bipartisan Senate bill seeks to beef up U.S. international nuclear exports - ExchangeMonitor

2 weeks ago | exchangemonitor.com | Wayne Barber

Amid fears the United States is losing ground to rivals in world nuclear power markets, a group of Republicans and Democrats this week introduced the International Nuclear Energy Act. “If the U.S. doesn’t lead on nuclear energy development, Russia and China… Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. Not a subscriber? Click here to sign up for a FREE six-week trial and receive access to this article, along with our entire archives.
NRC halts spent fuel pool rulemaking - ExchangeMonitor

2 weeks ago | exchangemonitor.com | Trey Rorie |Wayne Barber

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has recently discontinued its rulemaking work on spent fuel pools and is denying a petition for rulemaking. The discontinuation of the “Long-Term and Unattended Water Makeup Spent Fuel Pools” rulemaking activity was published… Thank you for visitingRadWaste Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. Not a subscriber? Click here to sign up for a FREE six-week trial and receive access to this article, along with our entire archives.
RadWaste & Materials Monitor Vol. 18 No. 20

2 weeks ago | exchangemonitor.com | Trey Rorie |Wayne Barber

RadWaste & Materials Monitor provides weekly news and intelligence on radioactive waste management, including information on commercial and federal LLRW disposal, storage and treatment, decommissioning and decontamination, rad material recycling, and more.
Los Alamos cleanup bosses talk staffing, fire safety - ExchangeMonitor

2 weeks ago | exchangemonitor.com | Wayne Barber

There is good news and bad news to report on staffing, the head of the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup field office at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico told a federal advisory panel last week. “I am happy to report that no federal employees within the EMLA [Environmental Management Los Alamos] field office were terminated by any of the mass terminations,” Jessica Kunkle, who manages the field office, told DOE’s local citizen advisory board for cleanup May 14.
Murray says funding uncertainty having impact at Hanford - ExchangeMonitor

2 weeks ago | exchangemonitor.com | Wayne Barber

Uncertainty over Department of Energy funding and guidance at the Hanford Site in Washington state threatens to bog down work at the nation’s largest nuclear cleanup site, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash) told Secretary of Energy Chirs Wright Wednesday.