Hanford Site

The U.S. Department of Labor invited both current and former nuclear-weapons workers to Richland, Wash., near the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, to discuss eligibility for occupational illness benefits. The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act outreach session will be held at 9 a.m. Pacific Time at the Holiday Inn Richland, according to a […]

An Atkins-led group that bid and lost on the Department of Energy’s $45-billion Integrated Tank Contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state bypassed the usual channels of protest and sued DOE over the award. Hanford Tank Disposition Alliance, a team with Atkins Nuclear Secured, Jacobs Technology, and Westinghouse Government Services, filed suit under seal […]

BWX Technologies CEO Rex Geveden could share new details today on a 10-year, $45-billion Department of Energy contract recently awarded to a joint venture the company is leading at the Hanford Site in Washington state. Lynchburg, Va.,-based BWXT will discuss the company’s first quarter 2023 financial earnings today at 5 p.m. Eastern time during a […]

Earnings fell at Fluor, Irving, Texas, in the first quarter, which the government contractor attributed to charges on a defense contract and losses associated with the sale of an international subsidiary. But in an analysts conference call following the morning earnings release, Fluor CEO David Constable was upbeat about prospects for the company’s work in […]

Over the past year, the Department of Energy decided to change the location of a planned fire station at the Hanford Site in Washington state because similar facilities are being developed in nearby Richland, Wash., an agency spokesperson said. Rather than building in Hanford’s 400 area as initially planned, managers at the 580-square-mile Hanford Site […]

While happy to see Washington state and federal agencies cut a new deal on cleanup of the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Wednesday DOE’s fiscal 2024 budget request is “robbing Peter to pay Paul.” Hanford’s Office of River Protection and Richland Operations Office would […]

The Department of Energy this week started creating space in a double-shelled underground waste tank that was nearly full after taking on additional waste from a single-shell tank, an agency spokesperson said. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB), in a report published this week and dated April 7, said that DOE’s effort to drain […]

Washington state and the federal government reached a “conceptual agreement” for future management of about 56 million gallons of radioactive waste at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, the parties announced Tuesday. DOE, Washington state Department of Ecology and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said in a press release negotiators have reached “conceptual agreement […]

While happy to see Washington state and federal agencies cut a new deal on cleanup of the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Wednesday DOE’s fiscal 2024 budget request is “robbing Peter to pay Paul.” Hanford’s Office of River Protection and Richland Operations Office would […]

Over the past year, the Department of Energy decided to change the location of a planned fire station at the Hanford Site in Washington state because similar facilities are being developed in nearby Richland, Wash., an agency spokesperson said. Rather than building in Hanford’s 400 area as initially planned, managers at the 580-square-mile Hanford Site […]

With the White House ending mandatory COVID-19 vaccination rules for most federal workers, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has postponed oral arguments on a case involving the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state. The San Francisco-based court Tuesday told the parties, including DOE and hundreds of plaintiff government and contractor employees, […]

Washington state and the federal government reached a “conceptual agreement” for future management of about 56 million gallons of radioactive waste at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, the parties announced Tuesday. DOE, Washington state Department of Ecology and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said in a press release negotiators have reached “conceptual agreement […]

The Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state, hit a speed bump recently in its efforts to remove radioactive waste from the final underground single-shell tank within the AX Farm, according to a staff report from a federal watchdog. AZ-102, the double-shell tank receiving waste from AX-101 as part of a waste retrieval project, […]

Department of Energy debriefs were held last week for the $45-billion Integrated Tank Contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state awarded recently to a team of BWX Technologies, Amentum and Fluor, sources told the Exchange Monitor. As a result, any bid protest should be filed with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) early this week, […]

Three long-tenured officials in the Washington State Ecology Department’s nuclear waste program planned to retire beginning in May, an agency spokesperson said. Starting May 1, Theresa Howell will be the new Tri-Party Agreement Section Manager and Beth Rochette will be the new Cleanup Section Manager at Ecology’s Nuclear Waste Program, a spokesperson for the agencies […]

Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm touted big liquid-waste-cleanup milestones in Idaho and Washington state in testimony Wednesday at the Senate Armed Services Committee. Though the fiscal year 2024 budget request for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) is about flat overall, tweaks to the 2024 proposal support a big “a ramp up […]

Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, former two-term governor of Michigan, will headline a fundraising event for the South Carolina Democratic Party Friday evening in Columbia, S.C., roughly an hour’s drive from Aiken, where the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site is located. “She is not on official travel” but personal travel, and the federal government […]

An indictment was filed last Thursday April 20 against a Hanford subcontractor accused of stealing $1.313 million in COVID relief money from the federal government. Filed in U.S. District Court in Eastern Washington, the indictment charged Wilson Stevenson III, 44, owner of BNL Technical Services, with 11 counts of fraud. The fraud charges carry maximum […]

Leidos-led Hanford Mission Integration Solutions, the landlord contractor at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state is in the market for a sub to replace old electric power lines and related equipment at the former plutonium production complex. In an online procurement notice this week, the site management contractor said it was seeking […]

The Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state only lost 12 acres to wildfire on the 580-square-mile property during 2022, due partly to controlled burns and other risk reduction steps overseen by the Leidos-led landlord contractor, the agency said Tuesday. By contrast, in June 2020, a wildfire started by lightning charred 5,000 acres on […]

Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm touted big liquid-waste-cleanup milestones in Idaho and Washington state in testimony Wednesday at the Senate Armed Services Committee. Though the fiscal year 2024 budget request for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) is about flat overall, tweaks to the 2024 proposal support a big “a ramp up […]

Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, former two-term governor of Michigan, will headline a fundraising event for the South Carolina Democratic Party Friday evening in Columbia, S.C., roughly an hour’s drive from Aiken, where the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site is located. “She is not on official travel” but personal travel, and the federal government […]

An indictment was filed last Thursday against a Hanford subcontractor accused of stealing $1.313 million in COVID relief money from the federal government. Filed in U.S. District Court in Eastern Washington, the indictment charged Wilson Stevenson III, 44, owner of BNL Technical Services, with 11 counts of fraud. The fraud charges carry maximum sentences of […]

Three long-tenured officials in the Washington State Ecology Department’s nuclear waste program planned to retire beginning in May, an agency spokesperson said. Starting May 1, Theresa Howell will be the new Tri-Party Agreement Section Manager and Beth Rochette will be the new Cleanup Section Manager at Ecology’s Nuclear Waste Program, a spokesperson for the agencies […]

Cement-like grout might be a viable cleanup alternative for up to 60% of the liquid radioactive waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, the acting head of the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup office told Senators this week.  The long-delayed Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant being built by Bechtel to solidify radioactive waste into […]

The Department of Energy’s Enforcement Office is investigating a November 2022 accident at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, which resulted in an amputated finger for a carpenter working on construction of the new Mercury Treatment Facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex. Contractor APTIM – North Wind Construction was informed of the planned investigation […]

The Department of Energy should within a week brief bidders about the agency’s reasons for awarding a $45-billion Hanford Site liquid waste cleanup contract to a BWX Technologies-led venture,  industry executives said this week. As a result, any protest by a losing bidder should likely be filed with the Government Accountability Office by May 1 […]

Cement-like grout might be a viable cleanup alternative for up to 60% of the liquid radioactive waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, the acting head of the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup office told Senators Tuesday.  The long-delayed Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant being built by Bechtel to solidify radioactive waste into a […]

The Department of Energy should within a week brief bidders about the agency’s reasons for awarding a $45-billion Hanford Site liquid waste cleanup contract to a BWX Technologies-led venture, an industry executive said Monday. As a result, any protest by a losing bidder should likely be filed with the Government Accountability Office by May 1 […]

Perma-Fix Environmental Services said Friday its team lost the Department of Energy’s Integrated Tank Disposition Contract, potentially worth $45 billion over 10 years at the Hanford Site in Washington state, which went to a joint venture led by BWX Technologies. “Despite the loss of the [Hanford tanks] contract bid, the company expects to continue to […]