Cleanup & Remediation

RW Monitor 3/20/2015 IN THE INDUSTRY Perma-Fix Environmental Services CEO Lou Centofanti has been appointed to serve on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee, Perma-Fix announced this week. The CINTAC is composed of industry representatives from the civil nuclear industry, and it meets periodically throughout the year to discuss the most […]

David Hess, a senior official at the DOE Office of Environmental Management’s Consolidated Business Center, is leaving his position within the next month. Hess’ departure was noted yesterday by Chris Honkomp, director of project assessment for EM, during remarks at this year’s Waste Management conference in Phoenix, who also said a replacement has not yet […]

The top procurement official in the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management said yesterday that he is “fairly confident” some of the legacy cleanup work to be performed at Los Alamos National Laboratory will be set-aside for small businesses. DOE is in the midst of acquisition planning for a set of post-Fiscal Year 2016 […]

Department of Energy Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center Director Jack Craig will be the next DOE Savannah River Operations Office Manager, DOE announced yesterday. Craig will take over for Dave Moody, who will retire at the end of May after a five-year tenure at the site. While Craig has served as CBC director since 2004, […]

In order to limit the impacts of budget cuts to new processing missions at Savannah River’s H-Canyon facility, the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Operations Office is working with the National Nuclear Security Administration on H-Canyon funding, DOE Savannah River Manager Dave Moody said yesterday at the Waste Management Conference in Phoenix. Programs that would […]

Perma-Fix Environmental Services CEO Lou Centofanti has been appointed to serve on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee, Perma-Fix announced yesterday. The CINTAC is composed of industry representatives from the civil nuclear industry, and it meets periodically throughout the year to discuss the most pressing trade issues facing the U.S. civil […]

The Department of Energy yesterday awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract to Trinity Engineering Associates, an 8(a) small business, for technical support services to the Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center. The four-year contract has a maximum value of $4 million. Work under the contract includes quality assurance support, safety support, radiological protection support, emergency management […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management plans to formally stand up its new Los Alamos field office next week on March 22, EM Acting Assistant Secretary Mark Whitney said yesterday at the Waste Management Conference in Phoenix. DOE is in the midst of shifting LANL cleanup work to EM from the National Nuclear […]

The final Request for Proposals for the new Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) Core contract contains “a fairly balanced incentive plan,” Jack Surash, deputy assistant secretary for acquisition and project management in the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, said yesterday. In response to industry concerns, DOE modified the proposed fee approach to allow the […]

The 2015 Waste Management Conference kicks off today in Phoenix. The conference will take place in the Phoenix Convention Center from March 15-19. Plenary speakers today include: Virginie Schwarz, Director for Energy at the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy in France; James Taylor, Executive Vice President and General Manager of AECOM Nuclear & […]

The competition for the new Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) Core contract is now set to get underway in earnest, with the Department of Energy having issued the final Request for Proposals for the new contract late last week. The final RFP includes a new set of changes to the proposed fee structure for the contract, including reverting […]

Los Alamos National Security, LLC, has moved David Funk to be the new acting deputy associate director in the Associate Directorate of Environmental Programs, the Lab announced. Funk has been with the lab since 1991, and has most recently worked for the Weapons Experiments Division at Los Alamos. “At ADEP, he will assist with TRU […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 3/13/2015 The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is calling on improvements for controlling safety risks at Hanford after completing a review of decommissioning safety systems at the site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant, according to a letter sent to the Department of Energy late last week. An attached DNFSB staff report highlighted numerous […]

Local Business Group Questions Proposed FY16 Funding Cut WC Monitor 3/13/2015 At a time that the Department of Energy’s overall budget is increasing, the administration’s budget requests for environmental cleanup have been decreasing, the Tri-City Development Council pointed out in a recent letter to members of the Washington state Congressional delegation. “DOE made commitments with […]

DNFSB Questions DOE Pace in Performing Risk Reduction at 235-F Facility WC Monitor 3/13/2015 The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board last week expressed concern over the Department of Energy’s schedule for performing risk reduction activities at the Savannah River Site’s 235-F facility. Late last year, DOE said the completion of the 235-F risk reduction plan […]

John Bradburne, former President, Fluor Fernald WC Monitor 3/13/2015 This past Monday morning a Fernald union leader passed away. Gene Branham, who was a member of a Teamster’s local in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area, lost his long battle with cancer. Gene worked at Fernald for more than 50 years, and for much of that time […]

WC Monitor 3/13/2015 IN DOE Erik Olds has been named acting Chief of Staff for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management. Olds last held the title of Chief of Staff for the DOE Office of River Protection. In EM headquarters, Olds will temporarily fill the vacancy caused by the departure of Colin Jones […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/13/2015 Kurion’s newly appointed President Jacques Besnainou, a former AREVA official, said this week he hopes to grow the company’s work in the Department of Energy. Besnainou believes his experience working in the Department of Energy cleanup complex will prove valuable. “If you look at AREVA, I was the chairman […]

RW Monitor 3/13/2015 ExchangeMonitor Publications and Forums was acquired this week by Access Intelligence, LLC, a business-to-business media and information company headquartered in Rockville, Md., serving the chemical, defense, satellite, aviation, cable, telecommunications, media and public relations markets. The acquisition comes roughly three months after Ed Helminski, the founder of ExchangeMonitor Publications and Forums, passed […]

RW Monitor 3/13/2015 IN DOE The Department of Energy late last week extended the response time an extra month for its solicitation for a contractor to assist in the movement of spent nuclear fuel from research reactors to an unidentified national laboratory. The new response date will be April 13, compared to the original March […]

As the Department of Energy stands up its new Los Alamos Office of Environmental Management Site Office, DOE yesterday named Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Waste Management Christine Gelles acting manager of the office. DOE is in the midst of the transition of LANL cleanup work to EM from the National Nuclear Security Administration, and […]

Kurion announced yesterday that Jacques Besnainou will join the company as the new president. Besnainou previously served as AREVA North America’s President and CEO. “We are delighted to welcome an executive of Jacques’ caliber to Kurion,” Kurion CEO Bill Gallo and Founder and Vice-Chairman John Raymont said in a statement. “Jacques is the right leader […]

Delays to the Department of Energy’s risk reduction actions at Savannah River’s 235-F are “unfortunate,” DNFSB Acting Chair Jessie Roberson said in a March 9 letter to DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz, urging DOE to “minimize future delays.” In a December letter to the Board, DOE said the completion of the 235-F risk reduction plan would […]

Deputy Energy Secretary Liz Sherwood-Randall made her first trip to the Savannah River Site in her current position last week, quietly visiting a variety of facilities. Among the stops on Sherwood-Randall’s tour was the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, which is the subject of a pair of reviews while DOE officials wait to chart a […]

GAO Evaluating Protests Over Latest Effort to Award Follow-on Contract Mike Nartker 3/6/2015 Stoller Newport News Nuclear has received a new six-month sole-source extension to its contract to provide support services to the Department of Energy’s Office of Legacy Management as challenges to DOE’s latest effort to award a follow-on contract are resolved. Stoller is […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 3/6/2015 POJOAQUE, N.M.—A “master acquisition plan” for what is expected to be several Los Alamos cleanup procurements is set to be released by June, which would be followed by draft requests for proposals by the end of the summer, Department of Energy officials said here this week at an industry day […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 3/6/2015 SANTA FE, N.M.—As discussions continue on penalties that could top more than $100 million, “time is of the essence” in reaching a settlement between the Department of Energy and the New Mexico Environment Department to ensure a timely reopening of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, NMED Secretary Ryan Flynn said […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 3/6/2015 As questions persist over whether any companies will choose to bid on the new Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) Core contract, the top acquisition official in the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management said this week that “the market” will ultimately decide the level of competition DOE gets for the […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 3/6/2015 In an incident now under investigation, it took nearly a month for Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the managing contractor for the Savannah River Site, to notice that a tank agitator at the H-Canyon facility was down, which compromised one of the facility’s nuclear criticality controls. The incident occurred after electrical […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 3/6/2015 The Department of Energy has reached a settlement with Idaho environmental regulators to resolve violations issued against DOE for delays in emptying waste tanks at the Idaho site of liquid radioactive waste. The settlement, announced late this week, includes a civil penalty of $648,000, for which DOE can perform supplemental […]