Nuclear News Roundup Aug 23, 2019 A more than $24 million subcontract has been awarded to a small business to do electrical work at the contaminated nuclear site in Washington. Columbian.com Iran’s foreign minister said talks he held on Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron about a landmark 2015 nuclear deal were “productive”, according to the ILNA news agency. Reuters.com Despite the objections of Attorney General Maura Healey, the Baker administration and local advocacy groups, federal regulators approved the transfer of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station license to a company that plans to decommission the plant on an "accelerated basis." Masslive.com The control room for the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Facility at the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Hanford site in Washington State has been commissioned. The facility is one of four major facilities that together will form the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, which will process and stabilize radioactive and chemical waste stored at the Hanford Site. World-nucleawr-news.org