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Two bidding groups have filed protests with the Government Accountability Office over the new contract for liquid waste management at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. One of the protests submitted on Tuesday was filed for the AECOM-CH2M Savannah River Technology and Remediation LLC by an attorney with the law firm […]

Processing of potentially combustible waste containers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory could be finished by Thanksgiving, a source in New Mexico said this week. That would be ahead of the latest official schedule for completion in December. The source said an official with the Energy Department Office of Environmental Management told the Northern New […]

Two bidding groups have filed protests with the Government Accountability Office over the new contract for liquid waste management at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. A group led by AECOM and a team led by Fluor have filed protests, two sources said. The GAO confirmed Wednesday that it had received […]

Water leaked into a plutonium pit-storage area at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, after an August thunderstorm, the Department of Energy disclosed this month. On Aug. 13 and 14, thunderstorms dumped about 2 inches of rain on the north Texas city, according to data compiled by the National Weather Service. During the storm, “rain […]

Three workers and two rooms were radioactively contaminated after a botched maintenance job on a glove box at the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Plutonium Facility, the Department of Energy and Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) said. It was the latest in a series of safety snafus at Los Alamos to come to light during […]

The Department of Energy has acknowledged that contractor Bechtel National has met all of the criteria required to resume construction on parts of the Hanford Site Waste Treatment Plant’s High-Level Waste Facility that have been on hold since 2012. However, DOE also pointed out in a statement Friday that its focus is on preparing to […]

Centrus Energy said Monday it has signed a $16 million contract to continue for another year its research and development of advanced gas centrifuge uranium enrichment technology at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The contract with lab management and operations prime UT-Battelle LLC runs through Sept. 30, 2018. The agreement […]

Recently obtained email messages indicate the Department of Justice might be investigating time-card issues involving the Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) project at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state. The investigation follows two settlements in recent years for alleged time-card fraud at the Hanford waste tank farms. An email sent on July 27 […]

The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management (EM) on Friday was completing its debriefing sessions for teams that bid on the Savannah River Site liquid waste management contract, sources told Weapons Complex Monitor. The agency announced on Oct. 12 that Savannah River EcoManagement, a partnership of BWX Technologies, Bechtel National, and Honeywell International, had won […]

The Department of Energy this week released its final request for proposals for a 10-year contract to manage and operate the Los Alamos National Laboratory: the storied nuclear weapons research site in New Mexico that will become the nation’s primary plutonium-pit-production facility under the next prime contractor’s watch. The final solicitation is for a cost-plus-fixed-fee […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on Wednesday released its final request for proposals for a 10-year contract to manage and operate the Los Alamos National Laboratory: the storied nuclear weapons research site that will become the nation’s primary plutonium-pit-production facility under the next prime contractor’s watch. Those interested must submit a bid by Dec. […]

A major contractor for Los Alamos National Laboratory has recently completed $7.5 million of cleanup work adjacent to the Los Alamos townsite in New Mexico. The cleanup, conducted by TerranearPMC and overseen by lab prime Los Alamos National Security LLC (LANS), was done on DOE property along the south-facing slopes of the Los Alamos Canyon. […]

An article in the Oct. 13 edition of Weapons Complex Monitor should have reported that the new liquid waste management contract for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site will not immediately cover the Salt Waste Processing Facility built by Parsons Government Services. Savannah River EcoManagement would run the plant after startup and one year […]

The Energy Department could debrief parties on the recently awarded Savannah River Site liquid waste management contract as early as Oct. 26, a source said this week, adding that it’s a good bet that at least one protest could be filed afterward. DOE announced on Oct. 12 that Savannah River EcoManagement, a partnership of BWX […]

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) said in a new report the Energy Department Office of Environmental Management has more work to do to resolve safety issues connected with criticality and flammable gas at the Waste Treatment Plant’s Pretreatment Facility at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The 100-page-plus technical report centers on four […]

The government of the United Kingdom this week largely kept mum regarding reports that it might directly take over decommissioning of its shuttered Magnox nuclear sites. Industry sources told the Financial Times it appeared probable that the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) would establish a subsidiary to manage cleanup of the 10 Magnox nuclear power […]

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) said in a new report the Energy Department Office of Environmental Management has more work to do on safety issues connected with criticality and flammable gas at the Pretreatment Facility for the Waste Treatment Plant at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The 100-page-plus technical report centers on […]

Anti-nuke groups suing to halt construction of a crucial defense uranium facility in Tennessee told a federal judge their lawsuit against the Department of Energy should be heard in Washington, D.C., and not in Tennessee, as the agency wishes. In a court filing last week, the plaintiffs said they opposed the DOE motion to move […]

The Energy Department could debrief parties on the recently awarded Savannah River Site liquid waste management contract as early as Oct. 26, a source said Tuesday. DOE announced last Thursday that Savannah River EcoManagement, a partnership of BWX Technologies, Bechtel National, and Honeywell International, had won a contract valued at $4.7 billion over 10 years […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has refurbished the first in a line of nuclear warheads that will be used on an aging fleet of U.S. cruise missiles well into next decade. The semiautonomous Department of Energy nuclear stockpile steward completed the first production unit of the W80-1 Alt 369 “before fiscal year 2017 came […]

Taxpayers in the United Kingdom are on the hook for up to £122 million in costs associated with a botched contract for decommissioning of the nation’s Magnox nuclear facilities, the U.K. National Audit Office said in a blistering report Wednesday. The government’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced in March that the £6.1 billion cleanup contract awarded in 2014 […]

Energy Secretary Rick Perry told a House of Representatives panel Thursday that progress is being made in improving the history of cost overruns and missed deadlines on big projects administered through the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management. Perry testified for more than three hours before the House Energy and Commerce energy subcommittee. While much […]

Installation of the two melters for the Low-Activity Waste Facility at the Hanford’ Site’s Waste Treatment Plant has been completed, a key milestone on the project, plant officials announced Wednesday. “When operational, these melters will be the largest operating vitrification plant melters in the world,” said Bill Hamel, Department of Energy project director for the […]

A group comprised of BWX Technologies, Bechtel National, and Honeywell International has won a contract valued at $4.7 billion over 10 years for liquid waste management at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management announced Thursday. Savannah River EcoManagement’s contact features a seven-year base and a three-year option […]

Installation of the two melters at the Low-Activity Waste Facility at the Hanford’ Site’s Waste Treatment Plant has been completed, a key milestone on the project, plant officials announced Wednesday. “When operational, these melters will be the largest operating vitrification plant melters in the world,” said Bill Hamel, Department of Energy project director for the […]

The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management could as early as today announce award of a new contract for liquid waste management at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, an industry observer said Wednesday. Rumors are circulating widely that the department’s nuclear cleanup office will release the news by close of business, the source […]

Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) took the head of the House Armed Services Committee along on a tour of the Y-12 National Security Complex and its Uranium Processing Facility last week. Fleischmann’s office said in a Friday press release that the Tennessee congressman was “thrilled” HASC Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) could join him for the […]

In what appears to be a sign of progress, Bechtel National has filed a revised preliminary documented safety analysis to the Department of Energy for the Hanford Site Waste Treatment Plant’s High-Level Waste Facility. The document is intended to support the resumption of procurement and construction on the facility, according to a newly released weekly […]

There is some surprise among Department of Energy contractors that the agency has not yet awarded a new contract for liquid waste management at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, an industry source said Wednesday. The major procurements summary from DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, as of Aug. 11, projected the new contract would […]

Two sources in New Mexico said Thursday the Los Alamos National Laboratory is slightly more than two-thirds through treatment of potentially combustible waste containers. At a late September meeting of the Northern New Mexico Citizens’ Advisory Board, an Energy Department official reported that 20 drums of inappropriately remediated nitrate salts remained to be treated, one […]