Cleanup & Remediation

Acting Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management Dave Huizenga emphasized in a an interview last week that DOE’s cleanup program won’t play second fiddle to the U.S. nuclear weapons program despite a recent DOE reorganization. In July, DOE announced that EM would report to Under Secretary for Nuclear Security Tom D’Agostino, who also heads the National […]

Republicans and Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee, who previously have sparred over legislative language about the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, both expressed concern this week about increasing tension and flagging employee morale at the Board that was revealed by WC Monitor last week. 

UNION SUES WRPS OVER TERMINATED EMPLOYEES The Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council is suing Hanford tank farms contractor Washington River Protection Solutions over what the union alleges is the unfair termination of four employees last year. In its lawsuit, filed Jan. 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, HAMTC accuses […]

DOE LOOKS TO TRUCK CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER The Department of Energy is proposing pumping up and trucking the “perched” underground contaminated water at Hanford’s 200-DV-1 Operable Unit  to the new 200 West Pump and Treat Facility in central Hanford. Some of the contaminated water already has been cleaned in a successful test at Hanford’s Effluent Treatment […]

A working group between the Department of Energy and the state of Nevada met a second time last week to discuss a  controversial batch of uranium-233 that DOE hopes to dispose of at the Nevada National Security Site. 

Portage earned 96 percent of its available award fee in Fiscal Year 2013—approximately $1.1 million out of $1.14 million—for its work on the Moab uranium mill tailings remediation project in Utah, according to information the Department of Energy released this week.