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DOE Completes Waste Retrieval From 13 of 16 Tanks by Deadline
WC Monitor
10/3/2014
Washington state agreed this week that the Department of Energy had met the 2010 consent decree requirements for emptying another waste tank at Hanford. That brought DOE closer…

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A worker in safety gear inspecting large concrete storage modules built to hold spent nuclear fuel containers.

DOE, Washington State Reach Agreement to Pump Damaged Hanford Double-Shell Tank

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S.M. Stoller Gets Yet Another Extension to DOE Legacy Mgmt. Support Services Contract

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Proposed Fee, Liability Provisions in New Idaho Cleanup Contract Prompting Concern

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

More Changes at Los Alamos as DOE Moves Lab Cleanup to EM

Two professionals reviewing and signing a contract document together in an office setting.

B&W Announces Plans to Evaluate Split of Gov’t/Nuclear Ops and Power Generation Segments

Two professionals reviewing and signing a contract document together in an office setting.

Navarro Facing Size Standard Challenge Over NNSS Contract Win

A tunnel boring machine operating inside an underground rock-salt mine tunnel.

Full-Scale WIPP Operations May Not Occur Until 2019 and Could Cost Up To $551 Million

Two large concrete cooling towers standing at a nuclear plant site ahead of planned demolition.

DOE Unable to Meet Sept. 30 Goal for Final SPRU D&D Cost/Schedule Baseline

A worker in safety gear inspecting large concrete storage modules built to hold spent nuclear fuel containers.

DOE Fails to Meet Sept. 30 Startup Commitment for IWTU

Rows of vertical cylindrical stainless steel centrifuge units arranged in an industrial cascade.

DOE Asks Court For Summary Judgment in Lawsuit Over Uranium Transfers

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U.K. Cleanup Focus

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

At Oak Ridge

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

At Richland

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

At Savannah River

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

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