Cleanup & Remediation

The Scioto Valley Local School District in Ohio plans a community meeting Saturday to discuss radioactive contamination concerns at a middle school located about 2 miles from the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site. Zahn’s Corner Middle School will be tested for radioactive byproducts released into the air by the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant during past uranium […]

Department of Energy contractor Longenecker & Associates has promoted Mike Briggs to the newly created post of group vice president for High-Hazard Operations support. Briggs joined the Las Vegas-based company last year and helped launch the business line that supports incident response and recovery at DOE sites, the company said in a Monday press release. […]

Perma-Fix Environmental Services on Thursday reported a 30.2% spike in its second-quarter revenue, from $13.2 million in 2018 to $17.1 million in 2019. That encompassed a 75.4% sales boost in the Atlanta-based company’s services business, from $4 million last year to $7 million in the latest reporting period, along with a more modest 10.4% revenue […]

The U.S. Energy Department on Tuesday issued a sources sought/request for information for remediation of the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and the Kesselring Site, both in New York state. The agency wants to gauge small business interest in a potential contract that includes tearing down and removing contaminated facilities, along with waste management services, at […]

After receiving no bids initially, the legacy cleanup contractor for the Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is extending its search by two weeks for a subcontractor to provide background checks on job applicants. Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) pushed back the proposal deadline from Monday until 3 p.m. Mountain time […]

The Richland Operations Office for the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state has extended the comment period on a cost and engineering report for hazard mitigation at the Plutonium Uranium Extraction (PUREX) Plant until Aug. 17. The original comment deadline was Friday for the engineering evaluation/cost analysis (EE/CA). The federal agency announced the deadline […]

AECOM on Tuesday reported $4.98 billion in revenue for its third quarter of fiscal 2019, 3.3% less than the $5.15 billion it took in during the same period a year ago. Revenue at the Los Angeles-based government contractor was affected by lower than expected storm recovery work in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The company’s net […]

Dallas-based Jacobs Engineering hopes to win at least one of two Energy Department awards for potential 10-year, multibillion-dollar contracts at the Hanford Site in Washington state, including one where it is the incumbent vendor. Jacobs Chairman and CEO Steve Demetriou said Monday he anticipates DOE will award the Central Plateau Cleanup Contract at Hanford soon, although […]

US Ecology has largely restored treatment capabilities at a waste facility in Idaho following a November 2018 explosion that killed one employee and injured eight others, CEO and board Chairman Jeff Feeler said Friday. “In June, our Idaho operations regained a substantial — substantially all of its treatment capabilities,” Feeler said during the Boise, Idaho-based […]

Dallas-based Jacobs Engineering Group recorded $3.2 billion in revenue for the quarter ended June 28, up $300 million from $2.9 billion during the same period a year ago. Earnings from operations dropped from $113 million, or $0.79 per diluted share a year earlier, to $89 million, $0.65 per diluted share, for the fiscal third quarter, […]

“All options are on the table” at Fluor after the company’s $555 million loss in the second quarter of 2019, CEO Carlos Hernandez said Thursday. The government contractor — one of the main industry subcontractors at the Los Alamos National Lab, the manager of the Naval Nuclear Laboratory and leader of the team running the Savannah […]

An article in the July 26 issue of Weapons Complex Monitor, “Dueling Findings by DOE, University at Odds Over Safety of Ohio School,” should have said Energy Department dust samples taken during Memorial Day weekend detected no radioactivity above naturally occurring levels at a school near the Portsmouth Site.

The Department of Energy has delayed the release of its draft record of decision (ROD) for a planned 2.2-million-cubic yard landfill for the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee until the end of the month. The document had previously been anticipated today. The Energy Department postponed issuance after consulting with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and […]

An unidentified U.S. Energy Department Office of Environmental Management nuclear facility needs to remedy shortcomings in its cybersecurity program, according to DOE’s Office of Inspector General. The Energy Department IG identified weaknesses in access controls, contingency planning, and continuous management, according to the memo dated July 19. The detailed report of the actual findings was not […]

The advocacy group Nuclear Watch New Mexico wants New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) to renegotiate a 2016 consent order with the U.S. Department of Energy on cleanup of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The organization in June urged Grisham to have the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) revisit the deal reached with […]

Leidos Chairman and CEO Roger Krone predicted Tuesday the Energy Department could award a new contract for landlord services at the Hanford Site “within a couple of weeks.” There had been speculation it would be out this week, Krone said during the company’s quarterly earnings call, responding to a Wall Street analysts’ question on potential […]

“All options are on the table” at Fluor after the company’s $555 million loss in the second quarter of 2019, CEO Carlos Hernandez said Thursday. The government contractor is becoming more selective about what projects it bids on, and will consider asset sales and staff reductions, Hernandez said during a teleconference call with Wall Street […]

The Sheep Fire, which burned more than 112,000 acres, is the largest blaze ever at the Energy Department’s Idaho National Laboratory, a spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday. It eclipsed the old record set by the Jefferson Fire, which in 2010 burned almost 109,000 acres, including 79,000 acres within the INL property, according to laboratory spokeswoman Sarah Neumann. […]

Sonal Patel POWER Magazine An innovative nuclear wastewater treatment approach that could provide a cost-effective alternative to fixed-column ion-exchange plants is poised to enter the nuclear market. Atkins, a company that multinational engineering and construction firm SNC-Lavalin acquired in 2017, announced in June that it would team with Swedish technology firm SpinChem AB in a […]

Leidos Chairman and CEO Roger Krone predicted Tuesday the Energy Department could award a new contract for landlord services at the Hanford Site “within a couple of weeks.” There had been speculation it would be out this week, Krone said during the company’s quarterly earnings call, responding to a Wall Street analysts’ question on potential […]

The Sheep Fire, which burned more than 112,000 acres, is the largest blaze ever at the Energy Department’s Idaho National Laboratory, a spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday. It eclipsed the old record set by the Jefferson Fire, which in 2010 burned almost 109,000 acres, including 79,000 acres within the INL property, according to laboratory spokeswoman Sarah Neumann. […]

The advocacy group Nuclear Watch New Mexico wants New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) to renegotiate a 2016 consent order with the U.S. Department of Energy on cleanup of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The organization in June urged Grisham to have the New Mexico Environment Department revisit the deal reached with the […]

An unidentified Energy Department nuclear facility needs to remedy shortcomings in its cybersecurity program, according to DOE’s Office of Inspector General. “Furthermore, we found that limited cybersecurity resources at the site impacted the ability of the site to ensure that all security controls were fully implemented,” the Energy Department IG said in the memo dated […]

Executives from Fluor, one of the larger contractors in the Energy Department’s nuclear weapons complex, are scheduled to discuss second-quarter earnings at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time Thursday. The financial numbers for the quarter ending June 30 will be posted after the market closes on Thursday. The call with Wall Street analysts will be webcast. Fluor […]

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler is expected to rule in August on a dispute over waste discharge standards at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee. Mary Walker, administrator for EPA Region 4, said in March the new on-site waste landfill planned at Oak Ridge lacks adequate protections against discharges of contaminated wastewater […]

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) on Monday issued a presolicitation notice for a contractor to provide environmental remediation under its Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) and other federal cleanup programs. The pre-placed remedial action contract, with multiple indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity task orders, would be conducted under the Army Corps’ Multiple Environmental Government Acquisition […]

In a federal discrimination lawsuit seeking $3.5 million, an African-American woman formerly employed by the Savannah River Site’s security contractor says she was terminated for accidentally leaving her gun in a bathroom, while a white employee kept her job after making the same error. In the complaint, filed Monday in U.S. District Court for South […]

An air tunnel at a degrading Savannah River Site nuclear materials processing facility should be able to withstand an earthquake, according to a detailed analysis for the Department of Energy, despite concerns raised two years ago by a federal safety board. Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), management and operations contractor for the 310-square-mile DOE facility […]

Three industry sources said recently Fluor’s government services group, if not the entire company, could be an acquisition target for another player in the nuclear cleanup industry, Jacobs Engineering. Such a deal could further consolidate Jacobs’ hold on the business of environmental remediation for the U.S. Department of Energy, following its December 2017 purchase of […]

Conclusions drawn by Northern Arizona University (NAU) researchers and the Department of Energy provide opposing views of whether a middle school near the Portsmouth Site in Ohio is safe for students to attend this fall. Local officials, citing analysis by NAU, said Thursday dust samples taken over Memorial Day weekend at Zahn’s Corner Middle School […]