Savannah River Site

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 […]

The Savannah River Site’s Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) resumed operations last week, ending a four-month scheduled outage that allowed workers to tie the $2.3 billion Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) into the rest of the liquid waste system at the Department of Energy complex in South Carolina. The DWPF is again treating radioactive sludge […]

New U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette assured a Senate committee recently that steps are being taken to tighten his department’s shipment of radioactive waste for disposal at the Nevada National Security Site. Brouillette, at the time deputy energy secretary, listed several measures in a written response to a question submitted by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto […]

House Democrats opted not to fall on their swords this week to slow the ongoing nuclear arsenal modernization program, when they overwhelmingly supported passage of a National Defense Authorization Act that approves just about all the Department of Energy weapons spending requests for fiscal 2020. That means that through the Sept. 30 end of the […]

New U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette assured a Senate committee recently that steps are being taken to tighten his department’s shipment of radioactive waste for disposal at the Nevada National Security Site. Brouillette, at the time deputy energy secretary, listed several measures in a written response to a question submitted by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto […]

The Savannah River Site’s Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) resumed operations last week, ending a four-month scheduled outage that allowed workers to tie the $2.3 billion Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) into the rest of the liquid waste system at the Department of Energy complex in South Carolina. The DWPF is again treating radioactive sludge […]

The U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday released a draft environmental assessment for its proposal to treat and dispose of up to 10,000 gallons of recycled wastewater from the Savannah River Siteat a commercial low-level radioactive waste site somewhere outside South Carolina. This would be the first test run of the DOE’s reinterpretation from June […]

Oversight of contractors and environmental remediation remains at the forefront of the U.S. Department of Energy’s management challenges for fiscal 2020, according to a Nov. 15 special report from DOE’s Office of Inspector General. Other major concerns include nuclear waste management, cybersecurity, safeguards and security of DOE installations, civilian stewardship of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, […]

Fluor is receiving strong interest as it seeks a buyer for the government contracting business that does work for the U.S. Department of Energy and other federal agencies, CEO Carlos Hernandez said Wednesday. “The interest in that business is very, very substantial,” Hernandez said during an appearance at the Credit Suisse 7th Annual Industrials Conference […]

Fluor is receiving strong interest as it seeks a buyer for the government contracting business that does work for the U.S. Department of Energy and other federal agencies, CEO Carlos Hernandez said Wednesday. “The interest in that business is very, very substantial,” Hernandez said during an appearance at the Credit Suisse 7th Annual Industrials Conference […]

Thousands of pounds of stainless steel originally intended for the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., has been donated to welding programs at nearby high schools and colleges. Fifteen high schools and colleges each received a ton of metal from the U.S. Department of Energy’s semiautonomous National […]

Jacobs Engineering on Monday posted $3.4 billion in revenue for the quarter ended Sept. 27, a step up from $3 billion in the same period a year earlier. The Dallas-based multinational reported earnings for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019 before the market opened for the day. Its earnings per diluted share was $0.16, a […]

An employee of the Savannah River Site’s liquid waste contractor believes he has lost out on tens of thousands of dollars in salary by being wrongfully demoted in favor of younger, less-experienced employees. In a lawsuit filed on Oct. 21 in U.S. District Court, Jeffery Risher, 59, alleged he and several other workers were subjected […]

AECOM said Friday that CEO and Chairman Michael Burke plans to retire by next year, either once his successor is found or ahead of the company’s 2020 yearly shareholders meeting scheduled for March. Burke will be the last executive to hold the dual title, the Los Angeles-based infrastructure and engineering multinational said in a press […]

The U.S. Senate will vote Dec. 2, its first day back in Washington after Thanksgiving holiday break, on Dan Brouillette’s nomination to head the U.S. Department of Energy. The floor vote should occur around 5:30 p.m. ET that day, according to a Thursday Twitter post by the Senate’s Republican majority staff. Earlier Thursday, the Senate […]

The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) strategy to reboot its tritium-production enterprise went about as smoothly as it could have in fiscal 2019. And even if it is not a perfect microcosm of the whole nuclear security enterprise, it’s tough to ignore the similarities. First, as with just about everything else it makes or […]

The liquid waste contractor at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site says it should not have to pay an additional $1 million to a former employee after it already paid $1.5 million last month following a jury decision in a discrimination lawsuit. Savannah River Remediation (SRR) also said in a Nov. 8 filing […]

Parsons on Tuesday posted higher third-quarter earnings due to a tax benefit, sales up on acquisitions in its Federal Solutions Segment, and to a lesser degree on an increase in organic revenue. Net income climbed 38% to $56.8 million, $0.57 earnings per share (EPS), from $41.2 million ($0.52 EPS). Adjusted earnings were up a percent […]

AECOM, the international infrastructure company that is preparing its exit from contracting for the U.S. Energy Department, on Tuesday reported record annual revenue but a net loss for its fiscal 2019. Company-wide revenue of almost $20.2 billion was up 2% from $20.15 billion in fiscal 2018, according to AECOM’s latest earnings report. But the net […]

The National Academies committee studying supplemental treatment of low-activity waste at the U.S. Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state is accepting public comments until Nov. 20 on its upcoming report. The comment period was originally scheduled to end Oct. 31. A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine panel is reviewing a predecisional report […]

The liquid waste contractor for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina hired 250 new employees in fiscal 2019 as part of ongoing efforts to offset the loss of employees due to retirement and attrition. Savannah River Remediation (SRR) said in its annual report this week that the hiring increase was needed to support ramping […]

The National Academies committee studying supplemental treatment of low-activity waste at the U.S. Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state is accepting public comments until Nov. 20 on its upcoming report. The comment period was originally scheduled to end Oct. 13. A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine panel is reviewing a predecisional report […]

The liquid waste contractor at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site says it should not have to pay an additional $1 million to a former employee after it already paid $1.5 million last month following a jury decision in a discrimination lawsuit. Savannah River Remediation (SRR) also said in a Nov. 8 filing […]

Parsons on Tuesday posted higher third-quarter earnings due to a tax benefit, sales up on acquisitions in its Federal Solutions Segment, and to a lesser degree on an increase in organic revenue. Net income climbed 38% to $56.8 million, $0.57 earnings per share (EPS), from $41.2 million ($0.52 EPS). Adjusted earnings were up a percent to […]

Key testing has wrapped up for the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, bringing the $2.3 billion plant closer to its anticipated startup in the first quarter of 2020. Parsons, the U.S. Department of Energy contractor that built the SWPF and is readying it for operations, announced Wednesday […]

The liquid waste contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site double-stacked 191 canisters of treated liquid radioactive waste in fiscal 2019, and plans to stack another 300 containers in the current 2020 federal budget year. Savannah River Remediation (SRR) says the project costs about $3 million annually and is freeing up space […]

BWX Technologies President and CEO Rex Geveden said Tuesday the U.S. Energy Department should soon issue one multibillion-dollar contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state, while another probably won’t arrive until mid-2020. “In the coming weeks we expect to hear about the Hanford Plateau Central Cleanup contract for which we are competing,” Geveden said […]

U.S. Energy Department contractor Atkins Nuclear Secured Holdings has promoted Jack Craig as its new chief operating officer (COO). Craig, who joined the SNC-Lavalin Group company in 2018 as vice president of strategic programs, assumed the new post on Nov. 1, according to a press release. He succeeds Robert Frost, who continues to serve as […]

A radiation detection system developed at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory went into service at the Port of New York and New Jersey this year, lab management contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) announced. The On-Dock Rail Straddle Carrier Portal Monitoring System is designed to detect radiation inside intermodal shipping containers: ubiquitous […]

Key testing has wrapped up for the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, bringing the $2.3 billion plant closer to its anticipated startup in the first quarter of 2020. Parsons, the U.S. Department of Energy contractor that built the SWPF and is readying it for operations, announced Wednesday […]