Hanford Site

Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) injected a bit of drama into an otherwise routine confirmation hearing Thursday by saying he would not support the nomination of Anne Marie White to be assistant secretary of energy for environmental management until the Energy Department agrees to discontinue its “uranium barter” program. Barrasso made his comments during a Senate […]

Wastren Advantage Inc. (WAI) took home 96.1 percent of its potential award fee for its laboratory analysis and testing contract at the Hanford Site in Washington State for the period from Nov. 21, 2016, to Sept. 20, 2017, according to a recent performance scorecard from the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management. Wastren took in […]

Bechtel National (BNI) has met a contract milestone in construction of the Hanford Site Waste Treatment Plant worth an incentive fee of $4.275 million, the company and the Department of Energy announced Tuesday. The milestone was for electrical work at the plant’s Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility, with bulk cable electrical installation completed nearly four months […]

Several management changes have been made at the Hanford Site tank farms and Waste Treatment Plant project to help meet the Department of Energy’s goal of vitrifying tank waste as soon as 2022. A new general manager has been named for Waste Treatment Completion Co. (WTCC), the subcontractor created for construction, startup, and commissioning of […]

The Hanford Site has five major procurements in the pipeline between now and fiscal 2020, according to an announcement published Jan. 3 by the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC). Three of the five solicitations could extend for up to 10 years; a fourth for up to seven years; and the length […]

Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), waste storage tank operations contractor at the Hanford Site in Washington state, received 89 percent of its available fee for fiscal 2017, the Department of Energy noted in a recently issued performance scorecard. WRPS earned $11.89 million of the available $13.35 million for the budget year ended Sept. 30, 2017. […]

A Washington state judge has refused to grant a new trial or reduce an $8.1 million jury verdict against Hanford Site support services contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA) and one of its managers. The company and Steve Young, an MSA manager and also mayor of the largest city near Hanford, were sued in 2015 for […]

Federal and state regulators this week directed the U.S. Energy Department not to resume radiologically hazardous demolition at the Hanford Site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant until the agencies agree corrective actions are sufficient to protect workers and the public in the wake of a contamination spread. Contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. suspended teardown on Dec. […]

Contract management and technical expertise are the major reasons the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) will now report to DOE’s Office of Science, officials said Tuesday during a congressional hearing. Energy Secretary Rick Perry announced EM’s move from the Office of the Undersecretary for Management and Performance to Science on Dec. 15 as […]

The Hanford Site has five major procurements in the pipeline between now and fiscal 2020, according to an announcement published Jan. 3 by the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC). Three of the five solicitations could extend for up to 10 years; a fourth for up to seven years; and the length […]

Bechtel National (BNI) has met a contract milestone in construction of the Hanford Site Waste Treatment Plant worth an incentive fee of $4.275 million, the company and the Department of Energy announced Tuesday. The milestone was for electrical work at the plant’s Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility, with bulk cable electrical installation completed nearly four months […]

Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette told a House Energy and Commerce energy subcommittee Tuesday the Energy Department continues to make headway on the massive cleanup of its nuclear weapons complex. “In 2018, we will continue to make progress on key facilities and capabilities,” Brouillette said during a hearing on DOE modernization. For example, DOE continues […]

Contract management and technical expertise are the major reasons the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) will now report to DOE’s Office of Science, officials said Tuesday during a congressional hearing. Energy Secretary Rick Perry announced the new home for EM on Dec. 15 as part of a larger DOE reorganization. EM had been […]

Several management changes have been made at the Hanford Site’s tank farms and Waste Treatment Plant project to help meet the Department of Energy’s goal of vitrifying tank waste as soon as 2022. A new general manager has been named for Waste Treatment Completion Co. (WTCC), the subcontractor created for construction, startup, and commissioning of […]

The number of contaminated vehicles identified after a spread of radioactive contamination at the Hanford Site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant has increased to 21. Fourteen of those are government and contractor vehicles, and seven belong to workers. The last worker-owned car with contamination was released to its owner Wednesday. Surveys of vehicles are continuing at the […]

Mission Support Alliance (MSA), the support services contractor for the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, is asking for a new trial in Benton County, Wash., Superior Court after a jury in October awarded $8.1 million in damages for retaliation and discrimination against a former manager. If Judge Doug Federspiel does not agree to a new […]

The Department of Energy plans to close the Hanford Site’s waste storage Tank AY-102, which developed a slow leak from its inner shell into the space between its shells. Tank AY-102 was the first of 28 double-shell tanks built at the Energy Department site in Washington state, leaving 27 in service to hold waste emptied […]

The U.S. Department of Energy must be prepared to safely manage its 2,510-metric-ton stockpile of spent nuclear reactor fuel for decades until it can be placed in a permanent repository, according to new findings from a federal panel of experts. “While disposal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) in a deep […]

The U.S. Department of Energy must be prepared to safely manage its 2,510-metric-ton stockpile of spent nuclear reactor fuel for decades until it can be placed in a permanent repository, according to new findings from a federal panel of experts. “While disposal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) in a deep […]

Terry Reagan has been named Bechtel National’s chief of staff for the Waste Treatment Plant being built at the U.S. Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state. Reagan replaces Dave Norwood, who moved to another assignment with Bechtel. Reagan joined Bechtel at Hanford in 2010 as a project controls engineer. He most recently served as […]

The Department of Energy plans to close the Hanford Site’s waste storage Tank AY-102, which developed a slow leak from its inner shell into the space between its shells. Tank AY-102 was the first of 28 double-shell tanks built at the Energy Department site in Washington state, leaving 27 in service to hold waste emptied […]

The number of contaminated vehicles identified after a spread of radioactive contamination at the Hanford Site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant has increased to 21. Fourteen of those are government and contractor vehicles, and seven belong to workers. The last worker-owned car with contamination was released to its owner Wednesday. Surveys of vehicles are continuing at the […]

Mission Support Alliance (MSA), the support services contractor for the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, is asking for a new trial in Benton County, Wash., Superior Court after a jury in October awarded $8.1 million in damages for retaliation and discrimination against a former manager. If Judge Doug Federspiel does not agree to a new […]

Lynchburg, Va.-based BWX Technologies is interested in a potential 10-year, $4 billion support services contract at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state, a spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. BWXT was one of many well-known DOE contractors to send representatives last week to information sessions on DOE’s draft request for proposals on the Hanford Mission Essential […]

With the calendar year ticking away, the Energy Department has issued another procurement inquiry — this one a draft request for proposals for a contract valued at roughly $120 million over seven years to provide occupational medical services at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The Energy Department announced the draft RFP on Wednesday. The […]

Jacobs Engineering Group is in discussions to divest its 41 percent share of Mission Support Alliance, the support services contractor at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state. Jacobs’ acquisition of CH2M, which was completed on Dec. 15, leaves the new owner with a conflict of interest at Hanford. Along with being part […]

A lapse in communication procedures likely contributed the spread of radioactive particles at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site that contaminated 14 vehicles and led to checks at seven workers’ homes. As of midday Thursday, 240 workers at the Washington state facility had requested bioassays to determine whether they had inhaled radioactive particles. The spread […]

With the calendar year ticking away, the Energy Department has issued another procurement inquiry — this one a draft request for proposals for a contract valued at roughly $120 million over seven years to provide occupational medical services at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The Energy Department announced the draft RFP on Wednesday. The […]

The total number of vehicles at the Hanford Site with possible specks of radioactive contamination rose to 14 Wednesday after a spread of contaminants that appeared to start Friday at the facility’s Plutonium Finishing Plant. At least two vehicles might have been contaminated before workers drove them home Friday after completion of demolition of the […]

Lynchburg, Va.-based BWX Technologies is interested in a potential 10-year, $4 billion support services contract at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state, a spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. BWXT was one of many well-known DOE contractors to send representatives last week to information sessions on DOE’s draft request for proposals on the Hanford Mission Essential […]