Cleanup & Remediation

Nuclear remediation sites overseen by the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management would receive another small bump in funding for safeguards and security in fiscal 2021, according to budget tables released by the Donald Trump administration early Monday. The proposal for $321 million in the budget year beginning Oct. 1 is a step up from […]

While BWX Technologies lost out on a multibillion-dollar remediation contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state, President and CEO Rex Geveden said Tuesday he is optimistic about a “robust” pipeline of potential Energy Department projects. “Unfortunately, we were not awarded the Hanford Central Plateau Cleanup contract,” Geveden said during the Lynchburg, Va.-based company’s quarterly […]

The Department of Energy has requested a roughly $250 million reduction in cleanup funding for the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee as crews complete major demolition at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP). The Trump administration has asked for $431 million in environmental management (EM) funding for Oak Ridge in fiscal 2021, which starts Oct. […]

The Department of Energy is seeking comments on plans to use grout to shore up a trio of underground waste structures in danger of collapse at the Hanford Site in Washington state. In a notice Tuesday, DOE said the comment period is between March 23 and April 24 on its plans for the facilities located […]

The Energy Department said Feb. 21 it intends to extend its contractual arrangement for decommissioning of the Portsmouth Site in Ohio with vendor Fluor-BWXT by up to two years. The DOE Office of Environmental Management intends to negotiate a sole-source 12-month extension with two six-month options, according to a notice posted on a federal procurement […]

Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said Thursday he was not sure who developed the proposal to transfer management of a nuclear cleanup program back to his agency from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The proposed relocation of the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) is featured in the fiscal 2021 budget proposals for […]

Operations at the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) project in Utah resumed within just a few days earlier this month after a truck overturned while carrying a load of waste, an Energy Department spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. A truck carrying a container of uranium mill tailings rolled onto its side while rounding a corner […]

A former head of the prime contractor for the Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico, Philip Breidenbach, will lead the vendor team in charge of managing liquid waste at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Amentum, the successor to AECOM’s government contracting branch, announced Thursday that Breidenbach will replace Tom […]

Jeff Griffin, the associate principal deputy assistant secretary for field operations at the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management, is leaving to take a post with the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories in Chalk River, Ontario. Griffin’s departure, effective March 11, was announced in an email sent to staff members Tuesday from Environmental Management Principal Deputy Assistant […]

The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina enacted an emergency response Tuesday morning when a vehicle attempting to enter a secure area activated explosive detection systems. Site barricades remained open through the duration of the emergency response and there was “no indication of a consequence beyond the Savannah River Site boundaries,” according […]

While BWX Technologies lost out on a multibillion-dollar remediation contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state, President and CEO Rex Geveden said Tuesday he is optimistic about a “robust” pipeline of potential Energy Department projects. “Unfortunately, we were not awarded the Hanford Central Plateau Cleanup contract,” Geveden said during the Lynchburg, Va.-based company’s quarterly […]

Amentum, the Maryland-based successor to AECOM’s Management Services branch, on Wednesday named longtime industry manager Tom Foster as chief operating officer of its Nuclear & Environment business unit. Foster has more than 35 years of experience in the nuclear industry, from decommissioning to operations, according to a company press release. Most recently, he was president […]

The Department of Energy is seeking comments on plans to use grout to shore up a trio of underground waste structures in danger of collapse at the Hanford Site in Washington state. In a notice Tuesday, DOE said the comment period is between March 23 and April 24 on its plans for the facilities located […]

The Energy Department is accepting resumes for the job of managing the Hanford Site in Washington state, a post currently held by Brian Vance. The agency on Tuesday formally invited expressions of interest for the job of overseeing both the Richland Operations Office and Office of River Protection (ORP) at Hanford, the sprawling complex that […]

Nuclear remediation sites overseen by the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management would receive another small bump in funding for safeguards and security in fiscal 2021, according to budget tables released by the Donald Trump administration early Monday. The proposal for $321 million in the budget year beginning Oct. 1 is a step up from […]

Energy Department contractor BWX Technologies took in $501 million of revenue during the fourth quarter of 2019, a 5% uptick over $478 million a year earlier. In addition, the Lynchburg, Va.-based company reported late Monday that revenue of nearly $1.9 billion for the 12 months ended Dec. 31 set a new record and represented a […]

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday began compiling a list of potential vendors for an upcoming contract worth up to $50 million for design, planning, and construction management for environmental remediation of the Niagara Falls Storage Site (NFSS) in Lewiston, N.Y. The eventual cleanup job will be carried out under the Army Corps’ […]

The Department of Energy on Monday said it would “leverage past experience” and apply best practices to make remediation of 16 nuclear sites more cost-effective in upcoming fiscal year. The language is found in the introduction to the detailed 415-page report for the $6.1 billion budget proposed for the Office of Environmental Management in fiscal […]

The Energy Department said Friday it intends to extend its contractual arrangements for decommissioning of the Portsmouth Site in Ohio with vendor Fluor-BWXT by up to two years. The DOE Office of Environmental Management intends to negotiate a sole-source 12-month extension with two six-month options, according to a notice posted Friday on a federal procurement […]

The Department of Energy said last week it wants to promptly shore up some aging facilities at risk of failure at the Hanford Site in Washington state, which could endanger human health and the environment. The agency conducted structural analyzes at several old structures following the May 2017 partial collapse of Tunnel 1 at the […]

An article in the Feb. 18 issue of Weapons Complex Morning Briefing should have reported the Energy Department could keep the incumbent remediation contractor for the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee in place through July 2022.

The Energy Department declined several requests from prospective vendors to extend the Feb. 3 deadline for bidding on a potential 10-year, $3 billion Nationwide Deactivation, Decommissioning, and Removal Contract for excess facilities. The Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center last month published 152 questions and answers from potential bidders on the final request for proposals (RFP) […]

The Department of Energy on Feb. 14 confirmed the potential $21-billion integrated mission contract for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina will last up to 15 years. “Task orders may be placed any time during the 10 year ordering period and the execution of the actual work may extend up to 5 years” afterward, […]

At the urging of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Department of Energy will conduct a root cause analysis of the May 2017 partial collapse of Tunnel 1 of the Plutonium Uranium Extraction (PUREX) Plant at the Hanford Site in Washington. The evaluation should be completed by the end of the year. The GAO called […]

Higher taxes led Leidos to report a slight dip in its fourth quarter earnings, but sales were strong and adjusted earnings easily topped analysts’ estimates. Net income in the quarter fell nearly 4% to $181 million, $1.26 earnings per share (EPS), from $188 million ($1.25 EPS) a year ago. Per-share results rose a penny due to […]

Engineering and procurement giant Fluor seemingly caught its peers in the nuclear contracting complex off-guard Tuesday in announcing it would not proceed with the sale of its government services business. As recently as last week some managers within Fluor were still talking as if the sale was going forward, an executive with a rival Energy […]

An independent team of experts on Friday said more homework is needed before the Department of Energy can pick a reliable and cost-effective means to treat low-activity tank waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state that cannot be accommodated through vitrification. A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine panel issued its fourth and […]

Federal law may allow a $3.5 million discrimination lawsuit against the security contractor for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to continue even after a federal judge found the statute of limitations had passed for the case, according to newly hired legal counsel for the plaintiff. Marcialena Brown, an African-American woman, did not realize […]

The Department of Energy on Feb. 14 issued a potential contract extension of up to two years, through July 2022, to the incumbent vendor for cleanup of the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee. The Energy Department posted a notice of intent to award a sole-source deal to URS/CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) in the form of […]

Federal law may allow a $3.5 million discrimination lawsuit against the security contractor for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to continue even after a federal judge found the statute of limitations had passed for the case, according to newly hired legal counsel for the plaintiff. Marcialena Brown, an African-American woman, did not realize […]