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The story “Consent-based interim storage facility remains years away” [Radwaste Monitor, June, 7, 2024] should have said DOE plans to open the consolidated interim storage site by 2040 and a deep underground disposal site might not open until decades later.

The story “Consent-based interim storage facility remains years away” [Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, June, 4, 2024] should have said DOE plans to open the consolidated interim storage site by 2040 and a deep underground disposal site might not open until decades later. 

The story “DOE plans Paducah landlord presentation, site tour May 29” (Weapons Complex Monitor, Vol. 35, No. 20) should have said that federal courts ruled that Swift & Staley did not meet the size criteria for a small business set-aside contract.

The story “Robertson picked to succeed White at EM helm” (Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, May 29) should have said Candice Robertson will indefinitely oversee the DOE Office of Environmental Management as senior adviser.

Here are some events related to civilian nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking this week. May: 29-30: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Expert Panel Review of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation of  Accident Tolerant Fuel Concepts. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Energy Science Center – 1005 Platinum  Room 3340 Stevens Drive, Richland, Wash. Agenda online. […]

Weapons Complex Morning Briefing will not be published on Monday, May 27, 2024, in observance of the U.S. Memorial Day holiday. Look for the next issue in your inbox on Tuesday, May 28, 2024.  

Here are some events related to defense and civilian nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking this week. May 20-21: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Savannah River Site.  DeSoto Savannah, 15 E Liberty, Savannah, Ga., 31401. Monday, 1:00 p.m. Eastern time to 4:15 p.m. Eastern time; Tuesday 9:00 a.m. Eastern time to 3:30 p.m. […]

Here are some events related to defense and civilian nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking this week. 15: Public hybrid meeting, Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico.  16: Earnings Call: AtkinsRéalis will hold its first quarter earnings call at 8 a.m. Eastern Time. 16: Public meeting, Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, […]

The story “Oneid joins EnergySolutions from Holtec” [Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, May, 02, 2024] should have said that EnergySolutions is headquartered in Salt Lake City.

Here are some events related to defense and civilian nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking this week. 06: BWX Technologies holds its quarterly earnings conference call at 5 p.m. Eastern Time.  07: Second fiscal quarter 2024 investor earnings conference call, Jacobs Solutions. 7: A Conversation with Ambassador Laura Holgate on the Future of […]

Here are some events related to defense and civilian nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking this week.   April 29: Meeting: South Carolina Governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council meets starting at 1 p.m. Eastern Time at Gressette Building Room 105, Columbia, S.C. The meeting will be webcast. 30: Earnings call: Leidos has scheduled its […]

There are lots of new workers joining the nuclear industry these days, but Baltimore-based Constellation Energy has perhaps the only one to list “former Miss America” on her resume. Constellation announced in a Monday press release it hired former Miss America Grace Stanke as a full-time employee working as both an engineer and a spokesperson […]

There are lots of new workers joining the nuclear industry these days, but Baltimore-based Constellation Energy has perhaps the only one to list “former Miss America” on her resume. Constellation announced in a Monday press release it hired former Miss America Grace Stanke as a full-time employee working as both an engineer and a spokesperson for nuclear […]

The story “Los Alamos hexavalent chromium review won’t dither, says former DOE cleanup boss” [Weapons Complex Monitor, April, 19, 2024] should have said John Rhoderick is director of the water protection division for the New Mexico Environment Department.

There are lots of new workers joining the nuclear industry these days, but Baltimore-based Constellation Energy has perhaps the only one to list “former Miss America” on her resume. Constellation announced in a Monday press release it hired former Miss America Grace Stanke as a full-time employee working as both an engineer and a spokesperson […]

Here are some events related to defense and civilian nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking this week. 24: Open virtual meeting, Consent Order Subcommittee and Risk Evaluation and Management Subcommittee of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board. 3:00 p.m. Eastern time to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. Members of the public may attend via […]

The story “Final plaintiff settles Oak Ridge National Lab COVID vax case” [Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, April, 17, 2024] should have said Jessica Bilyeu is a current employee of UT-Battelle and her husband Jeffrey Bilyeu’s request for a religious accommodation was approved.

Here are some events related to defense and civilian nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking this week. 15-18: United States Nuclear Industry Council, Advanced Reactors Summit. Thompson Hotel Houston, Houston, Texas. Agenda and registration online. 17: Hearing, Senate Armed Services Committee. “To examine the Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration atomic […]

Sam Randazzo, the disgraced former chair of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, is dead, media in Ohio reported this week. Multiple reports said that Randazzo’s body was found late Tuesday morning in a Columbia warehouse that he owned. The Franklin County Coroners Office, which confirmed the death, said the case is a suspected suicide, […]

Sam Randazzo, the disgraced former chair of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, is dead, media in Ohio reported Tuesday. Multiple reports said that Randazzo’s body was found late Tuesday morning in a Columbia warehouse that he owned. The Franklin County Coroners Office, which confirmed the death, said the case is a suspected suicide, according […]

Here are some events related to defense and civilian nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking this week. April 10: Hearing, House Energy and Commerce climate and grid security subcommittee. “American Nuclear Energy Expansion: Spent Fuel Policy and Innovation.” Rayburn House Office Building Room, Room 2322,  Washington. Streaming online at the committee’s website. 10: Meeting: […]

Site prime Consolidated Nuclear Security planned a fundraiser Thursday to help cover some of the damages caused by recent wildfires near the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, the joint venture said in a press release. The fires, which drew the attention of major news outlets, forced Pantex, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) nuclear-weapons service center, to briefly shut […]

A member of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) announced plans this week to leave Congress in order to attend to his ill wife. Stewart did not reveal details of the health issues facing his wife but could resign soon, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Tuesday. “I can say with pride that I […]

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is only 42% full and will be needed well beyond 2034 when a New Mexico permit renewal expires, the Department of Energy said in a regulatory filing this week.   DOE’s Carlsbad Field Office and its prime subcontractor for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) also want a New Mexico Environment […]

Moving transuranic waste stored at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state to an underground disposal site in New Mexico would be completed by September 2050 instead of 2030 under a proposed change by agencies involved in remediating the former plutonium production complex. The delayed schedule for moving transuranic waste from Hanford to […]

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is reviewing a request by Waste Control Specialists to continue holding drums of potentially-combustible transuranic waste from the Los Alamos National Laboratory at its Andrews County, Texas facility into December 2022. About 110 containers of the problem waste from the Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico have basically been […]

Concerns about the surging COVID-19 pandemic in New Mexico led the Department of Energy to reduce on-site staffing and slow certain operations at both the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, according to recent documents published by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.  At Los Alamos, operations are affected for both […]

The pace of transuranic waste shipments to the U.S. Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico picked up after a slow start to 2019, although it is still seven shipments behind the 2018 tempo as of the end of August. The underground salt mine site near the city of Carlsbad received 225 shipments […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) this week revealed new details about its proposed dilute-and-dispose plan to eliminate 34 metric tons of weapon-usable plutonium — including that the agency is close to beginning a yearlong environmental review of its new approach. The agency will release its draft dilute-and-dispose supplemental environmental impact statement “in the very […]

The New Mexico State Auditor’s Office has questioned whether the state Environment Department (NMED) went too easy on the Department of Energy during legal settlements in recent years over cleanup problems and violations at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. In a Nov. 21 letter to New Mexico Environment Secretary […]