Cleanup & Remediation

The Missouri Congressional delegation is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to relinquish control of the West Lake Landfill cleanup to the Army Corps of Engineers’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program in a letter to EPA Region 7 Administrator Karl Brooks. The letter, sent on Feb. 28 by Sens. Claire McCaskill (D) and Roy […]

Oak Ridge cleanup contractor URS CH2M Oak Ridge, LLC, has reassigned to other subcontractors about 25 workers of Transportation, Operations and Professional Services, Inc., (TOPS) a protégé firm to UCOR. “TOPS, in addition to providing waste hauling services to UCOR, also provides professional services to UCOR,” UCOR spokesman Allen Schubert said yesterday. “Their contract to provide […]

The Department of Energy last week awarded a task order to Strata-G to collect data and perform characterization at Outfall 200, where a mercury water treatment facility is planned at Oak Ridge’s Y-12 National Security Complex. The company will gather data about the site of the proposed plant and deliver a sampling and analysis plan […]

A group of contractor executives is set to meet today with officials from the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management to discuss efforts to improve project and contract management. The meeting, being held at DOE headquarters, is intended to discuss the various factors that challenge EM’s successful completion of projects. “EM leadership routinely communicates […]

In the wake of URS firing a key nuclear safety manager at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, Sen. Ron Wyden said yesterday that he will ask the Government Accountability Office investigate how whistleblowers are treated at the Department of Energy. Wyden criticized DOE earlier this week after URS terminated Donna Busche, who had held the […]

A key nuclear safety manager at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant who has alleged she has faced retaliation for raising safety concerns was terminated yesterday by URS, the Hanford vit plant subcontractor for which she worked. Donna Busche, who held the position of environmental and nuclear safety manager, told Weapons Complex Monitor yesterday that she had […]

The Department of Energy awarded Waste Control Specialists a task order yesterday to dispose of Class C mixed low level waste from the Los Alamos National Laboratory Legacy Waste Project. The fixed-price task order calls for the disposal of 364.9 cubic yards of waste generated at the DOE Los Alamos National Laboratory from cleanup and […]

The Obama Administration appears set to submit a new proposal for modifying the 2010 Consent Decree that governs the cleanup of Hanford’s tank waste to Washington state officials by the end of this month. The schedule was outlined in a letter Washington State Governor Jay Inslee (D) and Attorney General Robert Ferguson sent to Secretary […]

LATA Environmental Services of Kentucky, LLC, the cleanup contractor for the Paducah site, earned approximately 90 percent of its available fee for Fiscal Year 2013, according to information Weapons Complex Monitor obtained yesterday. In total, LATA Kentucky earned approximately $3.02 million out of an available $3.37 million. The contractor’s fee included $1.80 million for completing […]

In a move linked to an ongoing procurement for cleanup of the Energy Technology Engineering Center in California, the Department of Energy last week released an amendment to its notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement for cleanup work at the broader Santa Susana Field Laboratory. DOE said it expects to issue a […]

Portage earned 96 percent of its available award fee in Fiscal Year 2013 for its work on the Moab uranium mill tailings remediation project in Utah, earning about $1.1 million in award fee out of $1.14 million available, according to information recently made public. “The contractor met the majority of performance goals and objectives for […]

West Valley Demonstration Project cleanup contractor CH2M Hill B&W West Valley, LLC, earned about 31 percent of the total award fee available from Aug. 29, 2012 through Feb. 28, 2013, according to an award fee determination scorecard recently posted by the Department of Energy. The contractor earned $100,000 out of $327,427 in available award fee […]

Contractor Washington Closure Hanford has completed removal of the massive Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor from the site’s 300 area, the contractor announced yesterday. The 1,538 ton reactor will be disposed of at Hanford’s onsite landfill, the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility. “Removing the reactor was one of the most complex and hazardous projects Washington Closure has […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management is still deciding how to spend the windfall for most cleanup sites in the spending bill that passed Congress earlier this month, which included about $200 million more for EM than asked for in the Fiscal Year 2014 budget request. After financial uncertainties last year caused furloughs, […]

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) met with Savannah River Site contractors and local officials Friday in Aiken, S.C. to discuss Savannah River issues. “Although many of the different players have different priorities, one clear objective remains: we must do all that we can to ensure the Savannah River Site’s national security missions remain intact with a […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration yesterday released a final request for proposals for the follow-on environmental characterization and remediation contract for the Nevada National Security Site. The final RFP includes few major changes from the latest draft version, though unlike earlier versions it makes transition costs a firm-fixed price contract line item. The contract includes […]

Employees for the Savannah River Site went home early yesterday and will be home today due to a rare winter storm that has hit South Carolina. Up to several inches of snow and ice were forecast for the Savannah River region with temperatures dipping well below freezing.  Non-essential personnel were dismissed from work beginning at […]

West Valley Demonstration Project cleanup contractor CH2M Hill B&W West Valley, LLC, earned about 31 percent of the total award fee available from Aug. 29, 2012 through Feb. 28, 2013, according to an award fee determination scorecard recently posted by the Department of Energy. The contractor earned $100,000 out of $327,427 in available award fee […]

Contractor Washington Closure Hanford has completed removal of the massive Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor from the site’s 300 area, the contractor announced yesterday. The 1,538 ton reactor will be disposed of at Hanford’s onsite landfill, the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility. “Removing the reactor was one of the most complex and hazardous projects Washington Closure has […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management is still deciding how to spend the windfall for most cleanup sites in the spending bill that passed Congress earlier this month, which included about $200 million more for EM than asked for in the Fiscal Year 2014 budget request. After financial uncertainties last year caused furloughs, […]

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) met with Savannah River Site contractors and local officials Friday in Aiken, S.C. to discuss Savannah River issues. “Although many of the different players have different priorities, one clear objective remains: we must do all that we can to ensure the Savannah River Site’s national security missions remain intact with a […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration yesterday released a final request for proposals for the follow-on environmental characterization and remediation contract for the Nevada National Security Site. The final RFP includes few major changes from the latest draft version, though unlike earlier versions it makes transition costs a firm-fixed price contract line item. The contract includes […]

Employees for the Savannah River Site went home early yesterday and will be home today due to a rare winter storm that has hit South Carolina. Up to several inches of snow and ice were forecast for the Savannah River region with temperatures dipping well below freezing.  Non-essential personnel were dismissed from work beginning at […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 1/17/2014 Lawmakers unveiled this week an omnibus spending bill for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2014 that would largely match the Army Corps of Engineers’ budget request for the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). Under the bill, FUSRAP would receive $103.49 million, a $501,000 cut from the Corps […]

Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 1/17/2014 Taking the time pressure off talks with the state of Nevada over disposal of a controversial batch of uranium-233, the Department of Energy last week unloaded material from shipping casks it had planned to send to the Nevada National Security Site for disposal. The shipping containers were due for recertification […]

Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 1/10/2014 The U.K.’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is set to launch next month a four-year research effort on waste treatment technologies with Sellafield Limited, the National Nuclear Laboratory, numerous U.K. universities and other partners, the NDA announced this week. The program is expected to cost £8-£9 million ($13.2 million to $14.8 million) […]

Mike Nartker RW Monitor 1/10/2014 EnergySolutions is starting off the new year with a set of senior management changes. As part of a new “consolidation” of the company’s management team, Mark Morant and Alan Parker have been named to oversee Projects; and Products, Projects and Technology, according to EnergySolutions spokesman Mark Walker. “Mark Morant is […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 1/10/2014 Kurion has entered into an agreement with the United Kingdom’s National Nuclear Laboratory to provide bulk vitrification waste treatment at the NNL’s Central Laboratory at the Sellafield site, according to a joint release issued by the NNL and Kurion this week. The joint project will use Kurion’s GeoMelt waste […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 5/2/2014 IN DOE The deadline to respond to a Sources Sought Synopsis/Request For Information related to the treatment of low-level radioactive waste and mixed low-level waste by the Department of Energy has been extended by a week. The previous deadline was April 28, but the new deadline will be May […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 5/2/2014 Sellafield Ltd. and TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Decontamination and Decommissioning Engineering Company (FDEC) entered into a co-operation agreement this week in an effort to share knowledge and know-how concerning the decommissioning of two of the most complex cleanup sites in the world. The agreement will work as an ‘operator to […]