Hanford Site

The parties to the Tri-Party Agreement on cleanup at the Hanford Site this week proposed new milestones for dealing with cesium and strontium capsules and bulk sodium at the Department of Energy facility in Washington state. A new proposed milestone would require any facilities needed to prepare the waste be available by the end of […]

CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. lost fee money for fiscal 2017 over a spread of radioactive contamination at the Hanford Site, but still brought in $9.9 million from the Department of Energy. That is 89 percent of the nearly $11.1 million available for the budget year ended Sept. 30, 2017, according to a fee summary […]

The Senate’s version of the fiscal 2019 Energy Department spending bill would set the budget for cleanup at the Hanford Site at $2.4 billion, rejecting proposed cuts from the Trump administration. The Senate budget proposal, which does not include the safety and security money Hanford will receive, is $315 million above the administration’s request for […]

CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. lost fee money for fiscal 2017 over a spread of radioactive contamination at the Hanford Site, but still brought in $9.9 million from the Department of Energy. That is 89 percent of the nearly $11.1 million available for the budget year ended Sept. 30, 2017, according to a fee summary […]

A record of decision was amended Friday as one of the regulatory steps needed for the Department of Energy to proceed with moving cesium and strontium capsules from underwater storage to dry storage at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The amended ROD specifies that interim storage of the capsules will continue, but in dry […]

Written testimony from a New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) official Friday, before the House Energy and Commerce environment subcommittee, adds more details to the state’s argument for classifying much of the West Valley Demonstration Project’s remaining waste as defense-related transuranic waste and shipping it to the Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot […]

Researchers have vitrified 2 gallons of radioactive waste removed from a Hanford Site storage tank in a first-of-a-kind demonstration of the processes that will be used at the Waste Treatment Plant being built at the Energy Department facility in Washington state. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers said it was the first time Hanford tank waste […]

A project to advance testing on whether some radioactive waste at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site could be grouted rather than converted to glass would proceed under direction from legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives. On Wednesday, the House Appropriations Committee advanced its marked -up fiscal 2019 energy appropriations bill for a vote […]

The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management plans to try a newly minted alternate method to analyze contractor costs when it issues the final request for proposals (RFP) for the potential $4 billion Hanford Mission Essential Services Contract later this spring. Without going into detail, Contracting Officer Lori Sehlhorst announced the alternate method in a […]

Researchers have vitrified 2 gallons of radioactive waste removed from a Hanford Site storage tank in a first-of-a-kind demonstration of the processes that will be used at the Waste Treatment Plant being built at the Energy Department facility in Washington state. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers said it was the first time Hanford tank waste […]

The proposed House of Representatives’ fiscal 2019 spending plan for Hanford Site would provide more money than the Department of Energy requested but would not match current spending levels, according to information from the staff of Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.). On Wednesday, the House Appropriations Committee sent its marked-up energy bill to the full House. […]

The House Appropriations Committee is recommending $6.9 billion in fiscal 2019 for the nuclear cleanup program overseen by the Energy Department Office of Environmental Management (EM). That would be $257 million less than the fiscal 2018 appropriation but $268 million more than the Trump administration’s request for the budget year beginning Oct. 1. Ahead of […]

Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), the tank operations contractor at the Hanford Site in Washington state, finished emptying 16 waste storage tanks at the C Farm to regulatory standards in 2017. An article in the Monday edition of Weapons Complex Morning Briefing misstated the contractor that performed the work.

The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management plans to try a newly minted alternate method to analyze costs when it issues the final request for proposals (RFP) for the potential $4 billion Hanford Mission Essential Services Contract (HMESC) later this spring. Without going into detail, Contracting Officer Lori Sehlhorst announced the alternate method in a […]

The House’s version of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act would require the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management office to notify Congress within two days if more workers are contaminated by radioactive material at the Hanford site in Washington state. The bill also would require the Environmental Management (EM) office to provide a report to […]

The Department of Energy on June 4 will start taking comments on a draft evaluation on the strategy for closing the 16 tanks in the C Farm radioactive waste storage area. The announcement of the draft evaluation indicates DOE is interested in landfill closure of the single-shell tanks, likely by filling them with grout and […]

Jacobs Engineering hopes to sign more long-term government contracts following its December purchase of CH2M, Chairman and CEO Steve Demetriou said Tuesday. “We recently commenced work on the management and operations contract with the Department of Energy at the Nevada National Security Site, an example of one of these multiyear contracts,” Demetriou said during the […]

Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), the tank management contractor for the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state, has issued a request for information (RFI) for subcontractors interested in doing construction work inside the tank farm. WRPS expects to issue a formal request for proposals (RFP) during the final quarter of fiscal 2018, which ends […]

A year after the partial collapse of a tunnel used to store highly radioactively contaminated equipment at the Hanford Site in Washington state, the Department of Energy is examining risks at the facility and across its cleanup complex. Work also continues to stabilize a second and larger tunnel at Hanford, which a structural analysis also […]

Top executives at AECOM and BWX Technologies this week made clear their companies still aim to come out on top in the extended contest for a multibillion-dollar contract at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. David Black, senior vice president and chief financial officer at Virginia-based BWXT, addressed the situation in […]

In a vote more than a decade in the making, the House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would smooth the way for the Department of Energy to build a permanent nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nye County, Nev. The Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2018 (H.R. 3053), shepherded through […]

By John Stang Perma-Fix Environmental Services executives said Wednesday they see the potential for at least $5 million in annual revenue from a specialized radioactive waste vitrification system now being tested. In a conference call to discuss Perma-Fix’s latest quarterly earnings, President and CEO Mark Duff said there is enough contaminated sodium wastes at nuclear […]

By John Stang Perma-Fix Environmental Services executives said Wednesday they see the potential for at least $5 million in annual revenue from a specialized radioactive waste vitrification system now being tested. In a conference call to discuss Perma-Fix’s latest quarterly earnings, President and CEO Mark Duff said there is enough contaminated sodium wastes at nuclear […]

The Department of Energy on June 4 will start taking comments on a draft evaluation on the strategy for closing the 16 tanks in the C Farm radioactive waste storage area. The announcement of the draft evaluation indicates DOE is interested in landfill closure of the single-shell tanks, likely by filling them with grout and […]

The House’s version of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act would require the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management office to notify Congress within two days if more workers are contaminated by radioactive material at the Hanford site in Washington state. The bill also would require the Environmental Management (EM) office to provide a report to […]

Two major Energy Department contractors, Dallas-based Jacobs and Los Angeles-based AECOM, will report quarterly earnings and brief financial analysts on Tuesday. Jacobs executives will discuss earnings, for the quarter ended March 31, during a conference call with financial analysts on Tuesday at 10 a.m. Eastern time. AECOM will hold its conference call at 12 noon […]

Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), the tank management contractor for the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state, has issued a request for information (RFI) for subcontractors interested in doing construction work inside the tank farm. WRPS expects to issue a formal request for proposals (RFP) during the final quarter of fiscal 2018, which ends […]

The House of Representatives’ version of the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act would authorize $65 million in funding to begin work on a new low-yield nuclear warhead for submarine-launched ballistic missiles as part of an overall $15.3 billion National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) budget, according to a bill summary provided Friday by the House […]

A new class action lawsuit was filed Monday on behalf of Hanford Site workers whose pension benefits were reduced when they were transferred from contractors and subcontractors at the Department of Energy facility to six “enterprise companies” in 1996. Attorney Douglas McKinley, of Kennewick, Wash., filed the lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims […]

A National Academies committee studying technology development needed across the Department of Energy environmental management complex should focus on technologies that can provide final and lasting reductions in long-term risk, according to the Oregon Department of Energy. The fiscal 2017 DOE appropriations bill directed the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to study technologies […]