Savannah River Site

Constellis, the Reston, Va.-based parent of U.S. Energy Department contractor Centerra Group, has reached a “forbearance agreement” with certain creditors in order to get some leeway on loan repayment while it works to shore up its balance sheet. “Constellis recently closed on a $110 million delayed-draw credit facility provided by a subset of its existing […]

The JASON group of scientists has endorsed a plan for the U.S. Department of Energy to immediately begin building new infrastructure to produce fresh nuclear-weapon cores, according to a letter written by the group’s program manager and published Monday by the Federation of American Scientists. “[W]e urge that pit manufacturing be re-established as expeditiously as […]

In what could be the final brief before an appeals panel rules on the case, South Carolina hammered home its argument that federal law does not prohibit the Department of Energy from paying $200 million in fines after blowing a legal deadline to remove plutonium from the state. South Carolina is appealing the case after […]

The U.S. Department of Energy has doubled down in the new year on its refusal to accept a safety recommendation from the Defense Nuclear Faciliites Safety Board (DNFSB) regarding tritium facilities at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. “[T]he Savannah River Tritium Enterprise (SRTE) provides adequate protection of the public and worker safety,” Lisa […]

Paramilitary security contractor Centerra won 97% or about $3.17 million out of a potential $3.26 million fee for protecting the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina during the second half of fiscal 2019, which ended Sept. 30. That’s according to a scorecard released by DOE over the winter holidays for Centerra-Savannah River Site. […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s plan to produce 80 pits a year would generate more than 1,110 cubic meters of transuranic waste a year, according to an environmental review the semiautonomous Department of Energy weapon steward released this week. Over 50 years — enough time at an 80-a-year throughput to produce two new pits, and […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration plans a somewhat expedited environmental review of its plan to convert a partially built plutonium recycling plant at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., into a plutonium-pit factory, according to a decision posted online this week. The agency has studied since June whether it must complete a brand new environmental […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s plan to produce 80 pits a year would generate more than 1,110 cubic meters of transuranic waste a year, according to an environmental review the semiautonomous Department of Energy weapon steward released this week. Over 50 years — enough time at an 80-a-year throughput to produce two new pits, and […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s plan to produce 80 pits a year would generate more than 1,110 cubic meters of transuranic waste a year, according to an environmental review the semiautonomous Department of Energy weapon steward released this week. Over 50 years — enough time at an 80-a-year throughput to produce two new pits, and […]

Paramilitary security contractor Centerra won 97% or about $3.17 million out of a potential $3.26 million fee for protecting the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina during the second half of fiscal 2019, which ended Sept. 30. That’s according to a scorecard released by DOE over the winter holidays for Centerra-Savannah River Site. […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration plans a somewhat expedited environmental review of its plan to convert a partially built plutonium recycling plant at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., into a plutonium pit factory, according to an “unpublished” decision posted online Tuesday. The agency has studied since June whether it must complete a brand […]

Potential bidders on the management and operations contract for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina have until noon ET on Jan. 9 to sign up for briefings. The Energy Department is providing new details on its Jan. 16 industry day for the stand-alone lab contract. The DOE Office of Environmental […]

Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) took home $25.6 million or 95% of its nearly $27 million in available fee for management and operation of the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina between Aug. 1, 2018 and July 31, 2019. The just-released fee determination scorecard from the DOE Office of Environmental Management shows […]

The U.S. Energy Department anticipates by early February issuing a draft request for proposals (RFP) for waste management at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The DOE Office of Environmental Management said in a Dec. 23 procurement notice the draft solicitation for what it now calls the Savannah River Site Integrated Mission Completion Contract […]

The U.S. Department of Energy is extending the comment period by more than a month on its draft environmental assessment for the plan to treat and dispose of about 10,000 gallons of recycled wastewater from the Savannah River Site at a low-level radioactive waste site located out of South Carolina. Stakeholders now have until Feb. […]

Twelve months ago, Anne Marie White was eagerly anticipating her first full year at the helm of the U.S. Department of Energy’s $7 billion-plus Office of Environmental Management. But her tenure as Energy Department assistant secretary for environmental management turned out to be closer to the end rather than the beginning. After being sworn into […]

MOX Services, prime contractor for the canceled Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF), played fast and loose with federal contracting rules, the U.S. Department of Energy’s inspector general wrote in a scathing report published days before the winter holidays. The audit, which focused on MOX Services’ administration of project subcontractors, identified some $8.5 million in questionable […]

The Department of Energy has “serious concerns” over the lack of corrective actions its contractor is taking to prepare the multi-million-dollar Salt Waste Processing Facility for startup at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C. Specifically, the federal agency noted that Parsons has not properly addressed radiation and fire protection at the facility in the […]

The Department of Energy has “serious concerns” over the lack of corrective actions its contractor is taking to prepare multimillion dollar Salt Waste Processing Facility for startup at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C. Parsons has not properly addressed radiation and fire protection at the salt waste facility in the company’s operational readiness review, […]

Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) took home $25.6 million or 95% of its nearly $27 million in available fee for management and operation of the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina between Aug. 1, 2018 and July 31, 2019. The just-released fee determination scorecard from the DOE Office of Environmental Management shows […]

Potential bidders on the management and operations contract for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina have until noon ET on Jan. 9 to sign up for briefings. The Energy Department is providing new details on its Jan. 16 industry day for the stand-alone lab contract. The DOE Office of Environmental […]

The U.S. Department of Energy is extending the comment period by more than a month on its draft environmental assessment for the plan to treat and dispose of about 10,000 gallons of recycled wastewater from the Savannah River Site at a low-level radioactive waste site located out of South Carolina. Stakeholders now have until Feb. […]

The U.S. Energy Department anticipates by early February issuing a draft request for proposals (RFP) for waste management at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The DOE Office of Environmental Management said in a Dec. 23 procurement notice the draft solicitation for what it now calls the Savannah River Site Integrated Mission Completion Contract […]

The U.S. Department of Energy is considering a stand-alone contract for management of its Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina. The DOE Office of Environmental Management on Wednesday issued a request for information/sources sought notice for management and operations of the government lab, which currently operates under the full Savannah River Site (SRS) contract. […]

The U.S. Department of Energy is considering a stand-alone contract for management of its Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina. The DOE Office of Environmental Management on Wednesday issued a request for information/sources sought notice for management and operations of the government lab, which currently operates under the full Savannah River Site (SRS) contract. […]

A compromise budget passed by Congress this week would fund the U.S. Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management at almost $7.5 billion. President Donald Trump is expected today to sign the fiscal 2020 domestic priorities and international assistance minibus, which encompasses appropriations bills for a long list of federal agencies. The House approved the bill […]

The U.S. Department of Energy is considering a stand-alone contract for management of its Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina. The DOE Office of Environmental Management on Wednesday issued a request for information/sources sought notice for management and operations of the government lab, which is currently under the full Savannah River Site contract. The […]

The compromise National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal 2020 would allow almost $2.1 billion for defense environmental cleanup operations the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state. Defense environmental cleanup is the largest tranche of funding for Hanford and other properties managed by DOE’s Office of Environmental Management. In total, the office would […]

A major defense policy bill would effectively block the U.S. Department of Energy from applying its new interpretation of high-level radioactive waste during fiscal 2020 in Washington state. That would cover the Hanford Site, a former plutonium production complex that is DOE’s largest cleanup project and home to much of its high-level waste. The fiscal […]

A defense policy bill on the verge of passage would require the U.S. Energy Department to provide Congress with anticipated costs of complying with court-enforced consent decrees at nuclear cleanup sites. The final version of the fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed easily out of the House of Representatives Wednesday on a vote […]