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S.C., Georgia senators voice MOX support

COLUMBIA - Republican senators from South Carolina and Georgia want the Obama administration to keep funding a program to turn weapons-grade plutonium into commercial nuclear reactor fuel.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2013-05-16/sc-georgia-senators-voic
Employee accessed personal data, SRS says

...the information was not ever "improperly distributed" or accessed by a hacker outside SRS.In March, the U.S. Department of Energy said its inspector general was investigating a security breach that had compromised personal information of...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-07/employee-accessed-personal-da
Agency hoping for wet year, high power from Thurmond

...Hobbs, the assistant administrator for finance and marketing for the Southeastern Power Administration.That U.S. Department of Energy agency, based in Elberton, Ga., sells electricity to 491 customers ? mostly rural electric cooperatives...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-04-29/agency-hoping-wet-year-high-p
Disabled hunters nab turkeys at SRS

...Management Area and Ecological Reserve will be open to the public on Saturdays in May.The parcel is owned by the U.S. Department of Energy and located along the Savannah River and south of Jackson.Maps and copies of regulations are available by...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/outdoors/rob-pavey/2013-04-27/disabled-hunte
Separation technology can stem nuclear waste threat

...have never happened before happen all the time." (The writer chairs the Nuclear Materials Committee of the U.S. Department of Energy's Site-Specific Advisory Board for Savannah River Site. She contributes this article as a private citizen...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/opinion-columns/2013-04-28/separation-techn
Sen. Lindsey Graham says reducing MOX costs could save the project

...R-S.C., hopes to salvage the beleaguered mixed oxide fuel project by working with contractors and the U.S. Department of Energy to reduce the spiraling costs that led to its planned suspension."I will work with the administration to...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2013-04-25/sen-lindsey-graham-says-
New director chosen for SRS salt waste project

The U.S. Department of Energy has appointed a new federal project director to oversee the $1.4 billion Salt Waste Processing Facility under construction at...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-04-22/new-director-chosen-srs-salt-
Budget cuts for MOX plant feared

...country. The effect on local jobs, he added, would depend on the impact on procurement.Last month, the U.S. Department of Energy forecast that the plant's $4.9 billion cost would increase to $7.7 billion and that the start of operations...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-04-04/budget-cuts-mox-plant-feared
Confusing year for SRS retirees ends with enrollment in new benefits plan

...insurance policies.Savannah River Nuclear Solutions employees were notified last year that changes by the U.S. Department of Energy would drop retirees 65 and older from the site's health plan, instead providing a stipend to buy their own...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-04-23/confusing-year-srs-retirees-e
NuScale group will reapply for small reactor research funds

...Savannah Ri ver Site, affirmed plans this week to pursue a second round of funding assistance offered by the U.S. Department of Energy.The company, based in Port land, Ore., said in a news release that it is "eager to compete" for the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-03-22/nuscale-group-will-reapply-sm