Cleanup & Remediation

Department of Energy management at the Savannah River Site told a federal safety watchdog last month steps are underway to strengthen oversight by departmental facility representatives at the nuclear complex in South Carolina. The DOE Office of Environmental Management is employing “trending analysis” and improving collaboration and training for its facility representatives at the Savannah […]

Department of Energy management at the Savannah River Site told a federal safety watchdog last month steps are underway to strengthen oversight by departmental facility representatives at the nuclear complex in South Carolina. The DOE Office of Environmental Management is employing “trending analysis” and improving collaboration and training for its facility representatives at the Savannah […]

Cotter Corporation and other defendants last week asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to reconsider whether litigation should be allowed to go forward by two sisters who blame their cancer on St. Louis area radioactive contamination dating to the Manhattan Project. The petition for rehearing was filed Nov. 27 by […]

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has refused a request by Physicians for Social Responsibility and other groups to fix what they deem a mistake in an earlier ruling concerning a public hiking trail near where the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado once stood. Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and other plaintiffs asked […]

Members of Hanford Guards Union Local 21 want to quickly end a lockout initiated last week by the landlord contractor at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state, a union official said Monday. Local 21 President Chris Hall told Exchange Monitor by phone the guards sought to keep working during contract talks with […]

Like their beloved Buffalo Bills, workers for the Department of Energy and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project in Western New York are not easily derailed by possible lake effect snow. “The snow was cleared last night and this morning; and we are operating under normal work hours,” a site spokesperson said […]

Members of the Hanford Guards Union Local 21 spent part of their Thanksgiving weekend picketing outside of the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state, following expiration of their labor agreement with the Leidos-led landlord contractor. Negotiators for the guards and site landlord, Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) are expected to resume talks Monday […]

The Government Accountability Office plans to rule by Feb. 27 on a bid protest of a potentially $2.3-billion contract for the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office. The deadline shown in the online notice reflects the Government Accountability Office (GAO) 100-day time period for deciding contract protests. Elsewhere, there had been as of deadline for […]

A local union leader is optimistic that plans for a nickel recovery facility at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio will go ahead, even though a chief congressional backer lost his reelection bid. Last month, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) announced the Department of Energy was entering a partnership with contractor Leidos and […]

News outlets in Washington state reported Tuesday members of Hanford Guards Union Local 21, which provides an armed protective force for the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, would stop work Wednesday before Thanksgiving due to expiration of their labor contract extension. The Tri-City Herald reported the guards’ union members were “locked out” due to expiration […]

On the Monday before Thanksgiving, the Department of Energy kicked off its market research into the next environmental cleanup contract at the Paducah Site in Kentucky. DOE’s Office of Environmental Management published online a request for information/sources sought notice at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant complex in Western Kentucky. Responses to the Paducah Deactivation and […]

A local union leader is optimistic that plans for a nickel recovery facility at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio will go ahead, even though a chief congressional backer lost his reelection bid. Last month, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) announced the Department of Energy was entering a partnership with contractor Leidos and […]

The Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative project being built at the University of South Carolina-Aiken is 85% complete, the top nuclear cleanup official for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site told a federal advisory board Monday. “It will be open for operation come the summer of 2025,” Michael Budney, who leads the Department of Energy’s Office […]

Hurricane Helene gave the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management one last emergency to deal with at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina before turning over control of the property to the National Nuclear Security Administration, a cleanup manager said Monday. Hurricane Helene “made for an interesting final weekend” before the cleanup office […]

To contain the multibillion-dollar costs of cleaning up contaminated groundwater, the Department of Energy planned to implement recommendations from the Government Accountability Office by April 2027. Candice Trummel, senior advisor for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, informed the Government Accountability Office (GAO) of the decision in a letter appended to a GAO report released this […]

Having lost its request for an injunction blocking public access to a hiking trail on property once part of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado, Physicians for Social Responsibility wants a federal court to revise part of its earlier order. The plaintiffs assert U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly was premature in approving “the […]

To contain the multibillion-dollar costs of cleaning up contaminated groundwater, the Department of Energy planned to implement recommendations from the Government Accountability Office by April 2027. Candice Trummel, senior advisor for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, informed the Government Accountability Office (GAO) of the decision in a letter appended to a GAO report released this […]

Having lost its request for an injunction blocking public access to a hiking trail on property once part of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado, Physicians for Social Responsibility wants a federal court to revise part of its earlier order. The plaintiffs assert U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly was premature in approving “the […]

Hurricane Helene gave the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management one last emergency to deal with at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina before turning over control of the property to the National Nuclear Security Administration, a cleanup manager said Monday. Hurricane Helene “made for an interesting final weekend” before the cleanup office […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has selected Maria Mitchell-Williams as the next deputy manager of the Idaho Cleanup Project at Idaho National Laboratory. Mitchell-Williams fills the vacancy created when Mark Brown became manager of the cleanup project in March, a DOE spokesperson said in an emailed statement Tuesday to Exchange Monitor. Mitchell-Williams, […]

A recent fire that burned large swaths of Ventura County, Calif., has not damaged the Santa Susana Field Laboratory or the portion of the site being cleaned up by the Department of Energy, a DOE spokesperson said late Friday, Nov. 8.. DOE’s Energy Technology Engineering Center, a 90-acre chunk of Santa Susana where DOE and […]

The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted corporate defendants until Nov. 27 to file a motion for rehearing in a case involving liability for Manhattan Project radioactive waste in the St. Louis area. The appeals court granted the request Nov. 5 in litigation brought by Nikki Steiner Mazzocchio and Angela Steiner Kraus against […]

The total value of the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office Operations and Site Mission Support Services contract awarded Friday to an Atkins-led team could reach $2.3-billion if all options are picked up, the Department of Energy said Tuesday. A notice in the Nov. 8 System for Award Management procurement tracker indicated the deal would be worth […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has selected Maria Mitchell-Williams as the next deputy manager of the Idaho Cleanup Project at Idaho National Laboratory. Mitchell-Williams fills the vacancy created when Mark Brown became manager of the cleanup project in March, a DOE spokesperson said in an emailed statement Tuesday to Exchange Monitor. Mitchell-Williams, […]

The total value of the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office Operations and Site Mission Support Services contract awarded Friday to an Atkins-led team could reach $2.3-billion if all options are picked up, the Department of Energy said Tuesday. A notice in the Nov. 8 System for Award Management procurement tracker indicated the deal would be worth […]

The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted corporate defendants until Nov. 27 to file a motion for rehearing in a case involving liability for Manhattan Project radioactive waste in the St. Louis area. The appeals court granted the request Nov. 5 in litigation brought by Nikki Steiner Mazzocchio and Angela Steiner Kraus against […]

A recent fire that burned large swaths of Ventura County, Calif., has not damaged the Santa Susana Field Laboratory or the portion of the site being cleaned up by the Department of Energy, a DOE spokesperson said late Friday. DOE’s Energy Technology Engineering Center, a 90-acre chunk of Santa Susana where DOE and its forerunner […]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Dennis Carr, chief operating officer at Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, told the Monitor here last week that the team’s parent company Fluor would compete for a follow-on management contract at Savannah River. In late September, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) published a special notice with a draft request for proposal (RFP) […]

A federal district judge in Washington state agreed last month to grant a motion by the Hanford Guards Union directing the Department of Energy’s landlord contractor at the Hanford Site to engage in arbitration. U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian in Eastern Washington ruled Oct. 17 that Leidos-led Hanford Mission Integration Solutions be compelled to arbitrate […]

The Washington Department of Ecology Nuclear Waste Program’s promoted Eddie Holbrook to be its new permanent deputy program manager, an agency spokesperson said Wednesday. Holbrook, acting in the No. 2 nuclear role for the state agency since February, introduced himself to the Hanford Advisory Board during a meeting Wednesday. “Holbrook has eight years of experience […]