Gone Fission Nuclear Report
Are you interested in the latest news about environmental cleanup at the Department of Energy's nuclear facilities? The GONE FISSION Nuclear Report is for you! This podcast covers all the latest developments across the DOE complex. More than just the news, you'll get commentary and insights to help you better understand the impact of developments.
Episodes
82 episodes
S4 E18 EM Site Specific Advisory Boards: Valuable Community Input -- 10/28/24 -- Kelly Snyder, DOE EM, Amy Jones, Oak Ridge SSAB Chair, Kris Bartholomew, Vice Chair
Community input is essential to the success of the Department of Energy’s environmental cleanup program. Much of the most essential feedback comes from the Site Specific Advisory Boards (SSAB) composed of local community volunteers. These...
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Episode 18
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50:16
S4 E17 An ECA Report: Reviewing the EM Program in the New Administration - 10.07.2024 - Seth Kirshenberg, ECA Executive Director
With a new Administration taking office in January, the Energy Communities Alliance has released a detailed report calling for a top-to-bottom review of the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management program. In this week’s episode of the ...
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Episode 17
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22:11
S4 E16 A Conversation with Candice Robertson - EM-1 - 09/23/2024
This week, the Gone Fission Nuclear Report features an interview with Candice Robertson, the Department of Energy’s recently appointed Senior Advisor to the Office of Environmental Management (EM-1). Host Michael Butler caught up with her at th...
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Episode 16
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17:37
S4 E15 Vision 2024: Oak Ridge Completes a Cleanup Milestone- 08.26.24 - Joanna Hardin, DOE Federal Portfolio Director, East Tennessee Technology Park
Each year, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management publishes a list of cleanup priorities for its sites around the country. Progress in the cleanup program is measured by how well these milestones are met.This week,...
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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24:32
S4E14 Consent-Based Siting for Spent Nuclear Fuel: A National Conversation - 07/29/2024 - Energy Communities Alliance, Washington, DC
The Gone Fission Nuclear Report travels to the nation’s capital this week to join a national conversation on next steps for identifying a community to host interim spent fuel storage from America’s nuclear power plants. Our podcast sponsor, the...
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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49:04
S4E13 Recruiting the Next Generation of Hanford Workers - 07/08/2024 - John Eschenberg, President/CEO, Central Plateau Cleanup Company
Our guest on this week’s episode is John Eschenberg, President and Chief Executive Officer of Central Plateau Cleanup Company in Hanford Washington. An Amentum-led partnership with Fluor and Atkins, CPCCO is responsible for managing site operat...
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Episode 13
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43:41
S4E12 The 2024 DOE Interns Have Arrived! --06/24/2024-- Maurice Thompson, Susan Sparks, Shannon Potter and Samina Mondal
This is the time of year when hundreds of interns descend on DOE sites around the country. They are eager and enthusiastic, ready to soak up new information gleaned from being out of the classroom and on the job. They are a critical part of the...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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S4E11 Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center Celebrates 20 Years - 06/03/2024 - Melody Bell, Deputy Director, Aaron Deckard, Procurement Director
DOE’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month. Called the “Swiss army knife of Environmental Management”, the EMCBC is a multi-faceted organization, serving as the centralized...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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47:46
S4E10 Depleted UF6: A By-Product for Industry - 05/20/24 - Zak LaFontaine, DOE Program Director, Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Program
The Department of Energy’s environmental cleanup program is more than tearing down aging, contaminated buildings. In this week’s episode of the Gone Fission Nuclear Report, we’ll take a look at another dimension of cleanup--the conversion...
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Episode 10
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26:21
S4E9 K-25 Reunion: Recalling Nuclear History - 05-06-24 - Dr. Harold Conner Jr. and Pam Toon
On April 27, 2024, more than 650 former workers at the historic K-25 gaseous diffusion plant in Oak Ridge, TN, came together for their first-ever reunion. As Daniel Dassow wrote in the Knoxville News-Sentinel, it was the first time many had dri...
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Episode 9
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56:43
S4E8 Meet DOE's Top Project Director - 4/22/24 - Jud Lilly, DOE Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office
Thousands of workers show up each day to advance the environmental cleanup mission at DOE sites around the country. They are talented and dedicated but for the most part their work goes unheralded without awards or accolades. In this week’s Gon...
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Episode 8
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55:14
S4E7 National Laboratories Speed Hanford Cleanup - 04/08/24 - Connie Herman, SRNL, Delmar Noyes, DOE-Hanford
The Department of Energy’s 17 national laboratories conduct research and development on some of the world’s most vexing challenges—from climate change to the origins of the universe. Most recently, six labs have turned their attention to ...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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30:46
S4E6 Cleanup and the Nuclear Renaissance - 03/25/24 - Ashley Saunders, UCOR, Dr. Wes Hines, Head, UT Nuclear Energy Department, Jim Little, Board Member, E-4 Carolinas
The Department of Energy’s environmental cleanup program is boosting a resurgence in the growth of nuclear energy. Cleaning up formerly contaminated land has created a new home for advanced reactor concepts that have become the centerpiece of t...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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S4E5 Celebrating WIPP's 25th Anniversary - 03/11/24 -- Mark Bollinger, Tammy Hobbes, Brandon Jones
This month, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico celebrates its 25th Anniversary. Located in Southeast New Mexico about 26 miles east of Carlsbad, WIPP was constructed for disposal of defense-generated transuranic--or TRU-- waste. WIPP...
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Episode 5
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42:39
S4E4 Black History Month: Scarboro 85 - Desegregating Oak Ridge Schools - 02/26/24 - Ray Smith, Oak Ridge Historian
As we near the end of Black History Month, in this week’s podcast host Michael Butler features the story of the Scarboro 85. In August 1955, 85 young African American students entered all-white classrooms in the Oak Ridge High School and the Ro...
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Episode 4
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42:51
S4E3 The Birth of the Nuclear Cleanup Caucus - 02/12/24 - Former Congressmen Doc Hastings (WA) and Zach Wamp (TN)
Consistent, reliable Congressional funding is an essential element of success in the Department of Energy’s environmental cleanup program. In this week’s episode of the Gone Fission Nuclear Report podcast, host Michael Butler interviews two for...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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45:53
S4E2 DOE Procurement Process -- How EM Contracts Work -- 01/29/24 -- Angela Watmore, DOE Deputy Assistant Secretary, Aaron Deckard, Proocurement Director, EM Consolidated Business Center as I by
The Department of Energy’s environmental cleanup program is now focused on 15 remaining sites around the country, down from 107 at the start of the program three decades ago. It is a multi-million dollar, multi-decade effort that depends on qua...
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Episode 2
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51:13
S4E1 Remembering Gary Petersen - Hanford "Force of Nature" -- 01/08/24 -- Former Congressman Doc Hastings, Duane Schmoker, David Reeploeg, Seth Kirshenberg, Carl Adrian
Every DOE community has local leaders who step up to advocate for funding and new missions and to hold the Department of Energy accountable for its cleanup obligations. These leaders take the time to educate themselves on site issues, get to kn...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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44:18
S3E33 Manhattan Project National Park: Three Sites, Many Stories - 11/20/23 - Wendy Behrman, Park Superintendent
In 2015, the United States welcomed its 409th National Park. Known as the Manhattan Project National Historic Park, it tells the story of the men and women who developed the atomic bomb that ended World War II. The Park features three key locat...
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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39:52
S3E22 A DOE View: Community Support is Essential - 11/13/23 - Kristen Ellis, Yvette Cantrell, Paradio Maith
In our last episode, the Gone Fission Nuclear Report podcast examined the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee’s decision to close in two years. This week, Department of Energy officials at Headquarters and two sites discuss the conti...
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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28:03
S3E21 A Community Reuse Organization Closes: CROET Says Mission Accomplished - 11/06/23 - David Bradshaw, CROET, Seth Kirshenberg, ECA
The Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee (CROET) recently announced its plans to close after three decades of successfully representing the Oak Ridge community with the Department of Energy. Why now? And what does this decision mean f...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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44:19
S3E20 EM Young Professionals: Building the Workforce - 09/25/2023 - Ike White, EM Senior Advisor, Ken Rueter, UCOR President & CEO
If you want job security and the feeling of doing something meaningful, the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management program is the place to be. That was the message of top government and industry leaders—and young professionals themselv...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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23:36
S3E19 Two Congressmen Talk Cleanup - 09/18/23 - Congressmen Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) and Dan Newhouse (R-WA), 2023 National Cleanup Workshop
Cleanup is essential. Budgets are tight. Partnership is imperative. That was the message delivered by two members of Congress at the National Cleanup Workshop in Washington, DC, last week. Hear Congressmen Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) and Dan Newho...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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17:18
S3E18 Stuart MacVean - Looking Back over 40 Years - 09/11/23 - Stuart MacVean, Retired President and CEO, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
This week's episode of the Gone Fission Nuclear Report podcast features an in-depth interview with Stuart MacVean, recently retired President and CEO of Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, DOE's lead environmental cleanup contractor at the Savann...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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35:50
S3E17 Labor Day 2023: Saluting America's Workers - 09/04/23 - Sean McGarvey, President and CEO, NABTU
The Gone Fission Nuclear Report podcast celebrates the American worker on Labor Day 2023. Our skilled crafts work daily in hazardous environments and all kinds of weather to carry out the EM cleanup mission. Sean McGarvey, president and CEO of ...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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