Decommissioning

Three of six 12.4-ton stainless steel doors — which will serve as access points for waste retrievals at the Sellafield nuclear site’s Pile Fuel Cladding Silo – have arrived, the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority said Monday. The third door arrived recently, according to the announcement, and all six silo doors are scheduled for installation by […]

Cleanup crews at the U.K.’s shuttered Bradwell Power Station have now decontaminated more than 10,000 square meters of walls, floors, and ceiling, the nation’s  Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced on Monday. The cleanup covers an area roughly the size of a rugby field, according to NDA. Site manager Magnox Ltd. completed a four-year effort in 2012 draining and stabilizing the […]

Japanese Ambassador to the United Kingdom Koji Tsuruoka and Consul General of Japan in Edinburgh Daisuke Matsunaga recently toured the Prototype Fast Reactor at Dounreay in Scotland. The two-day trip also included a meeting with local supplier JGC Engineering and a meeting with Global Energy Group “to see work carried out by renewables companies Atlantis […]

A worker at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., suffered no internal contamination after being exposed to radiation while assigned to preparing the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) for demolition. The July incident was not disclosed until late last month in the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) site representative report for the week […]

Sampling of a stormwater area at Missouri’s West Lake Landfill in June did not turn up any radiologically impacted material (RIM), the Environmental Protection Agency reported Wednesday. The landfill, which is adjacent to the Bridgeton Landfill, where an underground fire has been burning since 2010, contains waste from the former uranium production facility at Mallinckrodt […]

LAS VEGAS — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could add the Environmental Protection Agency’s West Lake Landfill Superfund site to its Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program under the next administration, FUSRAP National Program Manager Nicki Fatherly said Thursday. Lawmakers have been calling for FUSRAP to replace EPA at the troubled Missouri landfill, where […]

Sampling of a stormwater area at Missouri’s West Lake Landfill in June did not turn up any radiologically impacted material (RIM), the Environmental Protection Agency reported Wednesday. The landfill, which is adjacent to the Bridgeton Landfill, where an underground fire has been burning since 2010, contains waste from the former uranium production facility at Mallinckrodt […]

A worker at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., suffered no internal contamination after being exposed to radiation while assigned to preparing the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) for demolition. The July incident was not disclosed until late last month in the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) site representative report for the week of July […]

Missouri officials will move forward with testing for tritium in groundwater wells at the West Lake Landfill, despite property owner Republic Services’ attempt to block those efforts. Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said Monday that Republic Services is worried about “what the tests will reveal, and the public deserves to know why.” West Lake waste originates […]

The dust is now settling around building K-27 at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge Reservation, marking a prominent, but by no means final milestone for the agency’s cleanup of the former uranium enrichment complex DOE is redeveloping into the East Tennessee Technology Park. When K-27 fell Tuesday, it marked the first time in the agency’s history that […]

In all but the literal sense, the dust has now settled around building K-27 at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge Reservation, marking a prominent, but by no means final milestone for the agency’s cleanup of the former uranium enrichment facility at the eastern Tennessee site. On hand to witness the final demolition of the 383,000-square-foot […]

If all goes according to schedule, building K-27, the last of five Cold War-era uranium enrichment plants at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge site in Tennessee, will be torn down Wednesday. It will mark the first time DOE’s Office of Environmental Management has demolished all of a site’s gaseous diffusion facilities. Five such buildings were built […]

Missouri officials will move forward with tritium testing for groundwater wells at the West Lake Landfill, despite property owner Republic Services’ attempt to block those efforts. Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said Monday that Republic Services is worried about “what the tests will reveal, and the public deserves to know why.” Republic Services attorney Peter F. […]

The Energy Department believes it will take at least until next summer to finish demolition of the two primary buildings at the Separations Process Research Unit in upstate New York, where the agency remains mired in a business dispute with its prime demolition contractor. The two main buildings at the experimental Cold War-era plutonium-production plant, […]

An article in the Aug. 24 edition of Weapons Complex Morning Briefing should have stated that Aug. 30 is the scheduled date for final teardown of the K-27 gaseous diffusion plant at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.

The Energy Department believes it will take at least until next summer to finish demolition of the two primary buildings at the Separations Process Research Unit in upstate New York, where the agency remains mired in a business dispute with its prime demolition contractor. The two main buildings at the experimental Cold War-era plutonium-production plant, H2 and G2, […]

Demolition of the fifth and final gaseous diffusion plant at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge site in Tennessee is scheduled to wrap up on Aug. 30, contractor CH2M wrote Monday on its Twitter feed. Demolition activities began in February. “The final wall of K-27 will fall on August 30, 2016, completing demolition of all five uranium-enrichment gaseous […]

C2G International will assist the Energy Department’s Separations Process Research Unit field office in Niskayuna, N.Y., with contract-claims resolution and other legal matters under a legal support services contract worth up to $2.3 million, DOE announced Monday. The agency’s deal with the global contract resolution and litigation support specialist features a one-year base and two one-year […]

Centrus Energy is still trying to get a handle on how much it will cost, and how long it will take, to decontaminate and decommission the industrial-scale uranium enrichment demonstration known as the American Centrifuge Project that was taken off life support in Pike County, Ohio, earlier this year, according to filings with U.S. financial […]

The Energy Department this week issued the final request for proposals for a small-business-only contract to provide technical support for a legally mandated environmental review DOE must conduct before finalizing a two-phase plan to decontaminate and demolish facilities at the West Valley Demonstration Project: a former spent-fuel reprocessing plant in upstate New York. The five-year […]

The manager of a former subcontractor for UCOR — the URS-CH2M conglomerate priming decontamination and decommissioning at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge site near Oak Ridge, Tenn. — faces five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government, court documents filed July 18 show. Joseph Armes, manager […]

The Energy Department this week issued the final request for proposals for a small-business-only contract to provide technical support for a legally mandated environmental review DOE must conduct before finalizing a two-phase plan to decontaminate and demolish facilities at the West Valley Demonstration Project: a former spent-fuel reprocessing plant in upstate New York. The five-year contract […]

The manager of a former subcontractor for UCOR — the URS-CH2M conglomerate priming decontamination and decommissioning at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge site near Oak Ridge, Tenn. — faces five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government, court documents filed July 18 show. Joseph Armes, manager […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday it has terminated the license at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ research reactor in Omaha, Neb.,, following decommissioning of the unit. The Alan J. Blotcky Reactor Facility operated from June 1959 to November 2001 for neutron activation of biological samples and training needs for the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station. NRC staff […]

Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth got only about 28 percent of its available award fee for the six months ended March 28, according to the award fee determination scorecard published this week for the Energy Department’s prime contractor for decommissioning and decontamination of the former gaseous diffusion plant in Pike County, Ohio. That was good for roughly $6.8 […]

An article in the July 22 edition of Weapons Complex Monitor, “UCOR Gets 94 Percent of Award Fee For Six Months Ended March 31,” should have said workers discovered rainwater in an improperly sealed barrel of solid waste at the 6556 Area of DOE’s Oak Ridge site, and that this water was removed and treated […]

Among the few details released publicly about the changes contractor CH2M Plateau Remediation will make to its strategy for tearing down the Plutonium Finishing Plant at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site was tucked into a recent report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, which says the company will now remove additional glove boxes before […]

An article in the July 18 edition of Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, “UCOR Gets 94 Percent of Award Fee For Six Months Ended March 31,” should have said workers discovered rainwater in an improperly sealed barrel of solid waste at the 6556 Area of DOE’s Oak Ridge site, and that this water was removed and treated […]

Among the few details released publicly about the changes contractor CH2M Plateau Remediation will make to its strategy for tearing down the Plutonium Finishing Plant at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site was tucked into a recent report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, which says the company will now remove additional glove boxes before knocking […]

The Energy Department on Thursday put out to bid 10 years of deactivation and cleanup work for the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, a former uranium enrichment facility in Kentucky that shut down in 2013. Along with that contract, DOE soft-started a smaller procurement for technical services at the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office, releasing on Thursday […]