Defense Low-Level Waste

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking public comments on its proposed draft list of prioritized low-level radioactive waste (LLW) tasks based upon updates to the strategic assessment, according to a posting in the Federal Register late last week. In 2007, the NRC released a strategic assessment list for high-proiority LLW issues. Since then, the Commission […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 2/27/2015 While the Army Corps of Engineers prepares to finalize the Request for Proposal for the Shallow Land Disposal Area in Armstrong County, Pa., potential bidders have raised concerns this week over the lack of indemnification for the contract. Without indemnification, many major companies may stay away from lucrative cleanup […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 2/2/2015 The Department of Energy plans to create a new Used Fuel Disposition subprogram that would explore alternative disposal options for DOE-managed high-level waste and spent nuclear fuel, according to the Department’s Fiscal Year 2016 budget request, released today. DOE is seeking only $3 million for the subprogram and its […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 1/23/2015 As it continues to gather information on the best remedy for cleanup at the West Lake Landfill, the Environmental Protection Agency needs additional site characterization to determine if more radiologically-impacted material (RIM) exists outside the previously marked area, the agency said in a letter to the Missouri Attorney General […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 1/16/2015 The operator of the Bridgeton Landfill agreed last week, after court negotiations with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR), to relocate two Temperature Monitoring Probes (TMP) closer to the radioactively contaminated portion of the West Lake Landfill. The state had requested the relocation late last month following concerns […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 12/5/2014 The U.S. Army is seeking a license termination from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its Depleted Uranium Impact Area at the Jefferson Proving Ground in southeastern Indiana that would leave thousands of pounds of depleted uranium on-site. The Army submitted a license termination request in 2013 to the NRC […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will host a public comment meeting on Wednesday for the license termination of the U.S. Army’s Depleted Uranium Impact Area at the Jefferson Proving Ground in southeastern Indiana, the Commission announced late last week. The Army submitted a license termination request in 2013 to the NRC in hopes of ending the […]

DOE Issues Proposed Plans for D&D, Waste Disposition WC Monitor 11/7/2014 The Department of Energy issued this week proposed plans for D&D and waste disposition at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant that call for an on-site disposal capability. The two formal proposed plans are a required step in the regulatory process for records of decision […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 11/7/2014 The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management late last week issued a draft Request for Proposal for new contracts to provide low-level waste and mixed-low level waste treatment services. The current set of Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity-type contracts for waste treatment services ends in June 2015. DOE intends to […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management late last week issued a Draft Request for Proposals for low-level waste and mixed-low level waste treatment services. The current set of Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts for waste treatment services ends in June 2015. DOE intends to issue one or more Basic Ordering Agreements in the second […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 10/17/2014 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, through operator Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest Division, issued a sources sought notice this week for the transportation, treatment, final packaging, and disposal of low-level radioactive waste and mixed waste, according to a FedBizOpps posting. The contractor will have the responsibility of treating and transporting […]

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, through operator Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest Division, issued a sources sought notice yesterday for the transportation, treatment, final packaging, and disposal of low-level radioactive waste and mixed waste, according to a FedBizOpps posting. The contractor will have the responsibility of treating and transporting the waste to Department of Energy-approved waste […]

Perma-Fix Environmental Services yesterday was awarded a $4.5 million contract for treatment of a tritium waste stream at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Department of Energy awarded the work as a Firm Fixed-Price task order under the Mixed Low-Level Waste (MLLW) Treatment Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract.. According to DOE, the scope of work includes […]

City Bringing in Consultants to Evaluate DOE’s Proposed Landfill  WC Monitor 9/5/2014 The city of Oak Ridge, Tenn. has hired a team of consultants to assess the potential impacts of a new proposed nuclear landfill at the government’s Oak Ridge reservation and help the city decide whether it should accept and support the disposal facility. […]

DOE Looking At Ways to Expand On Site Landfill WC Monitor 8/22/2014 With space running out at the Department of Energy’s on-site landfill and plans for a follow-on landfill still in the early, early stages, DOE’s Oak Ridge Environmental Management office is looking at ways to expand the existing capability and give additional time before […]

Staff Reports RW Monitor 8/22/2014 With space running out at the Department of Energy’s on-site landfill and plans for a follow-on landfill still in the early, early stages, DOE’s Oak Ridge Environmental Management office is looking at ways to expand the existing capability and give additional time before constructing a new landfill. The Oak Ridge […]

AREVA Federal Services, a subsidiary of AREVA, announced yesterday that it has received a $34 million contract for the engineering, construction and commissioning of a remote-handled low-level radioactive waste disposal facility at Idaho National Laboratory. The contract, awarded by INL manager Battelle Energy Alliance, would develop a replacement disposal facility for the remote-handled low level waste […]

RW Monitor 6/13/2014 IN THE INDUSTRY Perma-Fix Environmental Services has won a contract to provide waste treatment services for the Department of the Navy. The contract, worth approximately $9 million including option periods, calls for the transportation, treatment, and disposal of Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program (NNPP) generated mixed wastes. Perma-Fix will utilize all four of […]

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 5, according to a modification to the Sources […]

The Environmental Protection Agency has reached out to the Army Corps of Engineers to help in the construction of an isolation barrier at the West Lake Landfill near St. Louis, according to a letter from EPA Administrator Karl Brooks to Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster late last week. Koster along with other state officials including […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 4/25/2014 The agreement between EnergySolutions and Waste Control Specialists to ship Class B and C low-level radioactive waste from the Zion decommissioning appears to remain intact, but it is unclear when, or if, shipments are likely to occur, according to EnergySolutions spokesman Mark Walker. Previously, the agreement appeared to have […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 4/18/2014 Waste Control Specialists has begun to reach out to the local community in Andrews, Texas, to help determine if there is local interest in potentially hosting an interim storage facility for high-level nuclear waste. With state officials having expressed an interest in potentially hosting such a site, WCS met […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 4/4/2014 Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry expressed support for examining the state’s role in potentially storing high-level waste in a letter he sent to Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst and Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus late last week.  Straus has asked state lawmakers to begin considering the logistics […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/28/2014 The Department of Energy has begun conducting market research on companies capable of treating low-level radioactive waste and mixed low-level waste, according to a Sources Sought Synopsis/Request For Information posted this week. The current set of Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts for waste treatment services ends next year in June, […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/28/2014 Robatel Technologies received a Certificate of Compliance from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week that enables its Type-B shipping cask design to begin transporting waste. Waste Control Specialists contracted with Robatel to provide three Type B casks capable of shipping Class B and C low-level radioactive waste. The first […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/21/2014 Work to build a new remote-handled low-level waste disposal facility at the Idaho National Laboratory appears to be moving forward, with the lab expected to award a subcontract for design and construction sometime this fiscal year. The facility is needed to help meet the waste disposal needs of INL […]

Jeremy L. Dillon and Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 2/28/2014 It appears the specter of Yucca Mountain has entered the negotiations on a batch of uranium-233 the Department of Energy hopes to dispose of at the Nevada National Security Site as DOE undertakes a Congressionally-mandated examination of disposal alternatives, RW Monitor has learned. DOE received indications […]

Kenneth Fletcher RW Monitor 2/7/2014 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. The group was formed after objections from the state last year regarding […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 2/7/2014 Waste Control Specialists has received the first of three Type B casks— capable of shipping Class B and C low-level radioactive waste—and will begin entering into contracts with customers for its cask transportation services. The new casks, manufactured by Robatel, fill a glaring industry need as only four casks […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 1/31/2014 With Waste Control Specialists securing approval earlier this month to dispose of exempt low level waste in its RCRA landfill, many in the disposal and treatment industry have varied views on how the market will be impacted. The license approval granted from the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality has […]