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BWX Technologies

A manufacturer of naval nuclear reactors and components, and a major supplier of enriched uranium products and services to the U.S. government.

  • West Valley Main Process Building Demo Stays in Current Contract

    In a reversal, the current Energy Department contractor will start tearing down the Main Plant Process Building at the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York state . The Energy Department said earlier this year the demolition would be conducted under a successor to the current site cleanup contract held by CH2M HILL BWXT West […]

  • Army Corps RFP for Fort Belvoir Reactor Decommissioning Due in June

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects in mid-June to issue the request for proposals for decommissioning of the long-retired SM-1 nuclear reactor at Fort Belvoir, Va., a senior official said Monday. This will be the final version of the solicitation, as the procurement schedule did not allow time for a draft document that could […]

  • BWXT Blunder With Columbia Missile Tube Welds Chewed Two-Thirds of Program’s Margin

    BWX Technologies’ mistake last year welding ballistic-missile tubes for the first Columbia-class submarine consumed 15 of the 23 months of schedule cushion built into the Common Missile Compartment program, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported Monday. The report marked the first time the Navy and Columbia prime General Dynamics Electric Boat publicly quantified the amount […]

  • Three Teams Said Competing for Hanford Tank Closure Contract

    Three teams are believed to be vying for the 10-year, $13 billion Tank Closure Contract at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state, according to an industry source. Proposals by vendor teams hoping to succeed AECOM-led Washington River Protection Solutions were due March 21. The Energy Department is scheduled to hear oral presentations by […]

  • Los Alamos Cleanup Contractor Names New President

    Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos has named Glenn Morgan as its new president and program manager overseeing legacy cleanup operations at the Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Morgan replaces Nick Lombardo, who retired in January, according to N3B. Morgan has been serving as acting program manager since January after joining N3B […]

  • BWXT Blunder With Columbia Missile Tube Welds Chewed Two-Thirds of Program’s Margin

    BWX Technologies’ mistake last year welding ballistic-missile tubes for the first Columbia-class submarine consumed 15 of the 23 months of schedule cushion built into the Common Missile Compartment program, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported Monday. The report marked the first time the Navy and Columbia prime General Dynamics Electric Boat publicly quantified the amount […]

  • Three Teams Said Vying for Hanford Tank Closure Contract

    Three teams are believed to be vying for the 10-year, $13 billion Tank Closure Contract at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state, according to an industry source. Proposals by vendor teams hoping to succeed AECOM-led Washington River Protection Solutions were due March 21. The Energy Department is scheduled to hear oral presentations by […]

  • Los Alamos Cleanup Contractor Names New President

    Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos has named Glenn Morgan as its new president and program manager overseeing legacy cleanup operations at the Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Morgan replaces Nick Lombardo, who retired in January, according to N3B. Morgan has been serving as acting program manager since January after joining N3B […]

  • Savannah River Site Waste Contract Extended 18 Months

    The Energy Department confirmed Monday it has formally extended Savannah River Remediation’s (SRR) contract to manage liquid waste operations at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina through Sept. 30, 2020. The agreement was signed March 29. The extension is valued at roughly $750 million, SRR lead partner AECOM said in a Tuesday news release. […]

  • Portsmouth Contractor Takes Another Go at Voluntary Separations

    After its first effort fell short of its goal, Department of Energy cleanup contractor Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth is reviving its voluntary separation program in hopes of finding 29 more workers ready to take early departure. The decontamination and decommissioning contractor for the Portsmouth Site in Ohio in December first issued its offer in hopes of persuading […]

  • Portsmouth Contractor Takes Another Go at Voluntary Separations

    After its first effort fell short of its goal, Department of Energy cleanup contractor Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth is reviving its voluntary separation program in hopes of finding 29 more workers ready to take early departure. The decontamination and decommissioning contractor for the Portsmouth Site in Ohio in December first issued its offer in hopes of persuading […]

  • Savannah River Waste Contract Extended 18 Months

    The Energy Department confirmed Monday it has formally extended Savannah River Remediation’s contract to manage liquid waste operations at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina through Sept. 30, 2020. The agreement was signed Friday. The extension is valued at roughly $750 million, AECOM said in a Tuesday news release. AECOM-led Savannah River Remediation began […]

  • Key Senators Cool to Revival of DOE Uranium Barter Program

    The $6.5 billion fiscal 2020 budget request for the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management would resume the practice of “bartering” excess government uranium in order to defray cleanup costs at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), who chairs the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, helped win […]

  • Senators Cool to Revival of DOE Uranium Barter Program

    The $6.5 billion fiscal 2020 budget request for the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management would resume the practice of “bartering” excess government uranium in order to defray cleanup costs at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), who chairs the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, helped win […]

  • Wrap Up: Auditor Retained to Look at Hanford Tank Proposals

    The Department Energy’s Office of Environmental Management retained a firm to audit proposals for the potential 10-year, $13 billion Tank Closure Contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state. A contract valued at about $415,000 was awarded to Maryland-based CohnReznick, which has done fee-reasonableness audits for DOE in the past. The contract for the proposal […]

  • Los Alamos Cleanup Contractor Plans Industry Day in April

    The legacy cleanup contractor for the Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has scheduled an industry day for prospective subcontractors April 10-11 in Santa Fe. Current and future subcontracting opportunities will be the focus of the event planned by Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B). On the slate are mandatory pre-bid meetings […]

  • N3B Awards 1 Los Alamos Subcontract, Issues RFP for Another

    The legacy cleanup vendor for the Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has awarded a subcontract for a company to tear down an old processing building for radioactive liquid waste and do certain other work at Technical Area 21. Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) said Thursday the contract went to Albuquerque-based […]

  • Work Resumes in X-333 at Portsmouth After Uranium Equipment Fire

    Demolition preparations have resumed at the X-333 Process Building at the Department of Energy’s shuttered Portsmouth Site in Ohio after a piece of old uranium-enrichment equipment caught fire there last week, an agency spokesperson confirmed Wednesday. The fire ignited at about 10:30 p.m. on March 14, after personnel with site cleanup contractor Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth cut […]

  • Work Resumes in X-333 at Portsmouth After Uranium Equipment Fire

    Demolition preparations have resumed at the X-333 Process Building at the Department of Energy’s shuttered Portsmouth Site in Ohio after a piece of old uranium-enrichment equipment caught fire there last week, an agency spokesperson confirmed Wednesday. The fire ignited at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday, after personnel with site cleanup contractor Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth cut open the […]

  • Energy Department Plans Demolition of Portsmouth X-326 Building in 2020

    The Energy Department and its contractors expect demolition of the X-326 Process Building at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio to begin in July 2020, federal managers said March 7 at the Waste Management Symposia in Phoenix, Ariz. Most deactivation work has been completed at the building built in the 1950s to enrich uranium, first for […]

  • Energy Department Plans Demolition of Portsmouth X-326 Building in 2020

    The Energy Department and its contractors expect demolition of the X-326 Process Building at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio to begin in July 2020, federal managers said March 7 at the Waste Management Symposia in Phoenix, Ariz. Most deactivation work has been completed at the building built in the 1950s to enrich uranium, first for […]

  • Savannah River Liquid Waste Vendor to Get 18-Month Extension

    The Energy Department will keep the current waste management vendor at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina on the job for an additional 18 months, a move that comes about two weeks after it canceled plans for a new decade-long contract. In a post on a federal procurement website, DOE said Monday it plans […]

  • DOE Cleanup Chief Wishes SRS Liquid Waste Procurement Had Been Canceled Earlier

    PHOENIX, Ariz. — Assistant Energy Secretary for Environmental Management Anne Marie White said this week she wishes her office had moved sooner to cancel the procurement for a decade-long liquid waste management contract at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. As with many government decisions, this one “could have been more timely,” White said in […]

  • BWXT Sees Revenue from Isotope Production in Two Years

    BWX Technologies anticipates regulatory approval and initial revenue in the first quarter of 2021 on its generators for the medical isotope technetium-99m, according to its latest financial presentation. The Lynchburg, Va., company, better known as a contractor for the Departments of Defense and Energy, in 2018 began seeking a slice of the global business for […]

  • BWXT Sees Revenue from Isotope Production in Two Years

    BWX Technologies anticipates regulatory approval and initial revenue in the first quarter of 2021 for its generators for the medical isotope technetium-99m, according to its latest financial presentation. The Lynchburg, Va., company, better known as a contractor for the Departments of Defense and Energy, in 2018 took aim at what it says is a $400 […]

  • Energy Department Cancels Savannah River Liquid Waste Procurement

    The Department of Energy on Tuesday formally canceled the liquid waste management procurement for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, citing “significant changes” to requirements at the facility and its own acquisition strategy. That is the crux of a one-page letter sent to the three bidders on what could have amounted to a decade-long […]

  • Draft RFPs on Oak Ridge, Idaho, West Valley Cleanup Could be Out Soon

    The latest procurement schedule from the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management indicates draft requests for proposals for major work at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee and the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York could be issued this spring. A draft RFP for a new Idaho Cleanup Project contract could go out this […]

  • West Valley Vendor Finishes Hauling Vitrification Material

    Department of Energy contractor CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV) has removed virtually all the waste generated from demolition of the vitrification plant at the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York state. About 460 containers of debris have been sent from the site at the town of Ashford to off-site facilities, the Energy Department […]

  • BWXT Earnings Up 50 Percent in 2018 on Federal Work

    BWX Technologies, of Lynchburg, Va., said Monday it capped 2018 with better than 50-percent earnings growth after clinching more nuclear naval, environmental cleanup, and uranium downblending work from the Department of Energy. Company-wide net earnings came in at over $225 million in 2018, up more than 50 percent from just under $150 million in 2017. […]

  • BWXT Earnings Up 50 Percent in 2018 on DOE, Nuke Navy Work

    BWX Technologies, of Lynchburg, Va., said Monday it capped 2018 with better than 50-percent earnings growth after clinching more nuclear naval, environmental cleanup, and uranium downblending work from the Department of Energy. Company-wide net earnings came in at over $225 million in 2018, up more than 50 percent from just under $150 million in 2017. […]