Savannah River Site

Final cleanup of the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina should occur by fiscal 2065, an agency representative told the Citizens Advisory Board for the 310-square mile Tuesday. The 2065 timeline for final remediation, which matches the date listed in the fiscal 2025 budget justification for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, differs […]

The Savannah River Site’s Salt Waste Processing Facility in South Carolina is still falling short of Department of Energy production goals but that’s partly due to downtime at another waste facility, an advisory board heard Monday. The Salt Waste Processing Facility has processed 1.3 million gallons so far in 2024 and a total of 8.7 […]

Final cleanup of the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina should occur by fiscal 2065, an agency representative told the Citizens Advisory Board for the 310-square mile Tuesday. The 2065 timeline for final remediation, which matches the date listed in the fiscal 2025 budget justification for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, differs […]

Parsons Government Services has won a round before a federal contract board in a case alleging the Department of Energy owes it a $6 million incentive fee after deployment of the Salt Waste Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals on May 10 dismissed DOE’s contention […]

The Savannah River Site’s Salt Waste Processing Facility in South Carolina is still falling short of Department of Energy production goals but that’s partly due to downtime at another waste facility, an advisory board heard Monday. The Salt Waste Processing Facility has processed 1.3 million gallons so far in 2024 and a total of 8.7 […]

The Department of Energy Tuesday rolled out its second market information request for carbon-free electricity at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, with an eye toward bigger projects that might generate power for locals near the nuclear complex. A top DOE nuclear cleanup manager at Savannah River said recently the agency is evaluating solar […]

The Department of Energy Tuesday rolled out its second market information request for carbon-free electricity at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, with an eye toward bigger projects that might generate power for locals near the nuclear complex. A top DOE nuclear cleanup manager at Savannah River said recently the agency is evaluating solar […]

The Department of Justice and the landlord contractor for the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state both anticipate a fraud trial lasting several weeks could be held in federal district court during fall of 2025. That is one of the key takeaways from a joint filing Thursday by Justice, on behalf of a […]

The Department of Energy kicks off its second Cleanup to Clean Energy information day for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina at noon May 23 at 12 p.m. Eastern Time at Aiken Technical College, according to a notice issued by the agency this week. The session is scheduled to run through about 4 p.m. […]

A Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power has started commercial operations of the new Vogtle Unit 4 nuclear reactor in Waynesboro, Ga., the company announced in a Monday press release. The new reactor can generate enough electricity to power about 500,000 homes and businesses, Southern said in the release. Bechtel, which is also a Department of […]

The Department of Energy plans an August “transition readiness review” of plans to transfer management of the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to its nuclear weapons branch from its Office of Environmental Management. The readiness review will run from Aug. 5 through Aug. 30, before the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) takes the reins […]

The Department of Energy plans an August “transition readiness review” of plans to transfer management of the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to its nuclear weapons branch from its Office of Environmental Management. The readiness review will run from Aug. 5 through Aug. 30, before the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) takes the reins […]

At a Monday meeting of the South Carolina governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council, the Savannah River Site’s prime contractor discussed starting plutonium pit production in the early 2030s and an antinuclear activist from New Mexico said the state should take on the government’s entire pit mission. “We have put a stake in the ground that we […]

A year after construction started, an off-site research center for the Savannah River National Laboratory, “looks like a building now” and should open in 2025, a Department of Energy manager in South Carolina said Monday. The Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative, the new 60,000-square-foot building at the University of South Carolina-Aiken should be occupied “a year from […]

The Department of Energy plans an August “transition readiness review” of plans to transfer management of the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to its nuclear weapons branch from its Office of Environmental Management. The readiness review will run from Aug. 5 through Aug. 30, before the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) takes the reins […]

At a Monday meeting of the South Carolina governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council, the Savannah River Site’s prime contractor discussed starting plutonium pit production in the early 2030s and an antinuclear activist from New Mexico said the state should take on the government’s entire pit mission. “We have put a stake in the ground that we […]

The Department of Energy is starting to evaluate proposals for solar power projects at the Savannah River Site, the top site’s federal nuclear cleanup manager told the South Carolina governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council Monday. The deadline for requests for qualifications for solar power at Savannah River was Friday, April 26, Michael Budney, who leads the […]

The South Carolina agency charged with environmental monitoring of the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C., will split into two separate organizations on July 1. Under a measure passed in 2023 by the state legislature, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is becoming two separate agencies: the South […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration will meet legal obligations to remove plutonium from South Carolina even though it delayed a facility critical to breaking down old plutonium pits, the agency said Friday. The agency made the declaration in a record of decision published in the Federal Register. The decision, the end of a required environmental review […]

The South Carolina agency charged with environmental monitoring of the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C., will split into two separate organizations on July 1. Under a measure passed in 2023 by the state legislature, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is becoming two separate agencies: the South Carolina […]

It could cost up to $37 billion to acquire the pair of plutonium pit production facilities needed to produce new nuclear weapon cores for the rest of this century, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration said at a conference last week. The range, provided by Administrator Jill Hruby at the annual Strategic Weapons […]

The South Carolina agency charged with environmental monitoring of the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C., will split into two separate organizations on July 1. Under a measure passed in 2023 by the state legislature, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is becoming two separate agencies: the South […]

The Department of Energy contractor running the Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina is looking for expressions of interest from Minority Serving Institutions for nuclear cleanup research and development. Battelle Savannah River Alliance published the expressions of interest notice Monday in the System for Award Management. The joint venture between Battelle and several regional […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration will meet legal obligations to remove plutonium from South Carolina even though it delayed a facility critical to breaking down old plutonium pits, the agency said Friday. The agency made the declaration in a record of decision published in the Federal Register. The decision, the end of a required environmental […]

The Department of Energy has approved its latest jumbo-sized saltstone disposal unit for operation at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, the agency said Tuesday. Saltstone Disposal Unit 9 (SDU 9) is the fourth such mega unit built at Savannah River to hold up to 33 million gallons of saltstone, DOE said in a […]

The Department of Energy has issued its final request for qualifications for clean energy projects on 9,000 acres of land above its underground disposal site for transuranic waste in New Mexico. Responses to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) request for qualifications for carbon-free energy projects of at least 200 megawatts are due by 11:59 […]

The Department of Energy has approved its latest jumbo-sized saltstone disposal unit for operation at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, the agency said Tuesday. Saltstone Disposal Unit 9 (SDU 9) is the fourth such mega unit built at Savannah River to hold up to 33 million gallons of saltstone, DOE said in a […]

While the Department of Energy issued a request for qualifications for potential developers of solar projects at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, DOE expects to hold an information day soon on other carbon-free energy projects that would take longer to permit and build. The request for qualifications, published in March, supports DOE’s goal […]

As expected, the Department of Energy said this week it plans to issue a six-month contract extension to Atkins-led Mid-America Conversion Services for operation of depleted uranium conversion facilities at former gaseous diffusion plants in Kentucky and Ohio. DOE’s justification for going without competitive bids said the extension would run from April 1 through Sept. […]

Potential solar project developers at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina should file an application to interconnect to the electric grid by Aug. 30, according to a slide presentation on the government’s clean power initiative. The federal government envisions Savannah River operating on 100% carbon-free electricity by 2037, according to DOE’s […]