...Department of Energy officials also are expected to attend. The secretary will visit the area Tuesday afternoon, said Jim Giusti, an Energy Department spokesman at SRS. Local mayors and elected officials also are scheduled to appear at afternoon...

...Canada will pay $60 million over four years for SRS to receive and process the liquid, beginning as early as 2013.Jim Giusti, a DOE spokesman, said the assignment to process the highly enriched uranium into low enriched uranium for use as commercial...

...money to complete the project, the agency still would need congressional approval in the 2014 budget, agency spokesman Jim Giusti said.The 310-square-mile Savannah River Site once produced plutonium and tritium for atomic bombs.Work there...

...been mentioned among areas that could be considered for a pilot facility to demonstrate interim storage capabilities.Jim Giusti, a Department of Energy spokesman at the site, said there is no behind-the-scenes plan or proposal to involve SRS...

...emergency response programs and personnel Wednesday."It was a multifacility drill involving a natural disaster," said Jim Giusti, a site spokesman for the U.S. Department of Energy, which graded the performance of Savannah River Nuclear Solutions...

...thrives on spent nuclear fuel."Analysis so far shows that bacteria are present in this material," SRS spokesman Jim Giusti said. "We presently know nothing of its origin, how this material was formed or if this is the result of biological...

...Site's stimulus-funded cleanup projects are winding down."They're wrapping up this month, and next month," said Jim Giusti, a Department of Energy spokesman at the site.The $1.6 billion windfall created or saved about 3,000 jobs and...

...nuclear reactors that could become commercially available in 10 to 20 years."We have the land and the expertise," said Jim Giusti, a U.S. Department of Energy spokesman at the 310-square-mile site. "They're going to tell us what their needs...

...budgetary constraints, the department cannot award every application and must therefore make difficult choices," said Jim Giusti, a department spokesman at SRS. "The Georgia Department of Natural Resources grant could not be awarded."Georgia...

...There was an almost $24 million increase but as a percentage we pretty much flatlined for 2012 from 2011," said Jim Giusti, a U.S. Energy Department spokesman at the site.The fiscal year began Oct. 1, 2011, even though an official...