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Bechtel Making Progress at Melters of WTP’s Low-Activity Waste Facility
WC Monitor
3/27/2015
Bechtel National workers have finished placing refractory in the two 300-ton melters at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant’s Low Activity Waste Facility. Refractory…

In This Issue

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

DOE De-Comingles Defense and Commercial Waste

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

WIPP Release Technical Assistance Team Unable to Determine Cause With ‘Absolute Certainty’

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As EM Moves Away From M&O Contracts, Savannah River Chief Still ‘A Fan’

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

DOE Gearing Up to Extend Current Idaho Cleanup Contracts

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

With Uranium Prices Up, ‘Life is Good at Portsmouth,’ FBP Chief Says

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

Senators Press Moniz About Hanford Cleanup and New Mexico Fines

The U.S. Capitol dome framed by trees with an overlay of paper currency, symbolizing federal budget appropriations.

Sen. Feinstein Raises Questions About Former Deputy Energy Secretary’s New Post at Centrus

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

WIPP Fee Coming Out ‘ Soon,’ Will Be Impacted by 2014 Incidents, DOE Official Says

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

DOE-South Carolina Dispute on Savannah River Tank Milestone Reaches Next Level

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

LATA Kentucky Earns 83 Percent of FY14 Award Fee for Paducah Cleanup

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

GAO: DOE Needs to Improve Cost Estimates for Los Alamos TRU Waste Projects

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

DNFSB Uncovers Issues with DOE Radioactive Waste Packaging Software

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U.K. Cleanup Focus

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

At Richland

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

At Paducah

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.

Wrap Up

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