Innovation & Infrastructure

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 09/4/2015 Perma-Fix Medical S.A. said on Monday it has achieved a six curies radiation level for its technetium-99m production. Earlier this year, Perma-Fix said it needed to reconfigure its production process after realizing that market demand for the medical isotope used in millions of procedures annually called for a larger […]

Washington River Protection Solutions, the tank farm contractor at the Hanford Site, has received the Voluntary Protection Program Innovation Award for a tool its workers developed and built. The award was presented at the VPP Participants’ Association national conference in Grapevine, Texas, last week. The tool helps reduce worker exposure during surveys of equipment used […]

NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes announced yesterday that it has received approval from the University of Missouri Research Reactor to begin routine production of molybdenum-99 at the MURR facility, enabling the company to establish a weekly production schedule and increase its output. The milestone will help NorthStar transition from development to a routine production process in order […]

Perma-fix Medical S.A. said on Monday it has achieved a six curies radiation level for its technetium-99m production. Earlier this year, Perma-Fix said it needed to reconfigure its production process after realizing the market demand for the medical isotope used in millions of procedures annually called for a larger design. The latest milestone confirms Perma-Fix’s […]

Chris Schneidmiller WC Monitor 8/28/2015 The Department of Energy failed to meet “essential federal oversight requirements” when it issued an updated version of software used to assist the packaging and transport of radioactive materials, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Vice Chair Jessie Roberson asserted this month. In an Aug. 10 letter to Deputy Energy Secretary […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 8/28/15 The Energy Department and Bechtel National Inc. (BNI), the contractor for the Y-12 National Security Complex’s Uranium Processing Facility (UPF), late Monday afternoon released an expression of interest (EOI) for development of a 120,000-square-foot Multipurpose Fabrication Facility and a 150,000-square-foot optional adjacent warehouse facility, which would both be part of […]

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The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking greater funding to address its $3.6 billion backlog of deferred maintenance projects, spokeswoman Shelley Laver told NS&D Monitor in reference to two Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports released in the past two weeks on the Department of Energy (DOE) branch’s nuclear enterprise modernization budget estimates. A GAO […]

Brian Bradley  NS&D Monitor  8/7/2015 Pantex/Y-12 contractor Consolidated Nuclear Security has completed an analysis of alternatives to pursue a business-case analysis of a new Pantex Administrative Support Complex (ASC) in a private-public lease concept, and CNS hopes to provide the National Nuclear Security Administration with a business case by September, CNS Pantex Operations Manager Michelle […]

Brian Bradley  NS&D Monitor  8/7/2015 Structural engineers at the Y-12 National Security Complex have begun preliminary design work to stabilize a concrete beam found with vertical and horizontal cracks, according to a letter sent last month from the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge site office to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board and released this week. […]

Y-12 Relocates Uranium Canning Operations Staff Reports NS&D Monitor 8/7/15 A high priority at the Y-12 National Security Complex is moving work out of the 9212 complex, the oldest and shakiest of the Oak Ridge plant’s production facilities. It appears, based on a newly released report by staff of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 8/7/2015 Perma-Fix Medical does not expect to submit its techneticum-99m production technology for approval by the Food and Drug Administration this year, Lou Centofanti, CEO of parent company Perma-Fix Environmental Services, said this week, but management does anticipate completing the final scale-up of the production technology to a six-curie limit […]

Structural engineers at Y-12 are starting preliminary design work to stabilize a concrete beam in Building 9204-2 where vertical and horizontal cracks were found, according to a letter sent from the Oak Ridge Energy Department site office to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board released yesterday. The beam is 36 inches deep and 16 inches […]

Staff Reports NS&D Monitor 07/31/15 As the July 30 deadline neared for public comment on the National Nuclear Security Administration’s draft environmental assessment for a new emergency operations center at the Y-12 National Security Complex, an activist group urged the agency to release more information and to merge the EA process with a supplement to […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 7/31/2015 Perma-Fix Medical S.A. said this week it had finalized the $1 million investment agreement from Digirad Corp. in the company’s technetium-99m production technology. The agreement includes the $1 million investment from Digirad, a nuclear imaging services business, in exchange for 5.4 percent of the outstanding common shares of Perma-Fix […]

Perma-Fix Medical S.A. said yesterday it had finalized the $1 million investment agreement from Digirad Corp. in the company’s Technetium-99m production technology. The agreement includes the $1 million investment from Digirad, a nuclear imaging services business, in exchange for 5.4 percent of the outstanding common shares of Perma-Fix Medical, a spot on Perma-Fix Medical’s Supervisory […]

Alissa Tabirian NS&D Monitor 7/24/2015 Northrop Grumman demonstrated the ability to “rapidly integrate” subsystems onto the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber using Open Mission Systems (OMS)-compliant architecture in June at Edwards Air Force Base in California, the company announced this week. "This demonstration paves the way for the B-2 weapon system to provide new operational capability […]

The Energy Department’s Office of Enforcement will investigate a “near miss” electrical explosion involving three workers performing preventive maintenance at Idaho National Laboratory, according to a letter sent from DOE’s Enforcement Director to INL contractor Battelle Energy Alliance released yesterday. “Under the Major Fraud Act (MFA), as amended…this investigation may be a proceeding commenced by […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 7/17/2015 The Energy Department and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are seeking sources to determine the feasibility of building a 64,800-square-foot construction support facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex, estimated to cost between $10 million and $25 million and to require about 1 1/2 years to complete, according to an […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 7/17/2015 The Y-12 National Security Complex is exercising “energy savings performance contracts” (ESPCs) that include replacing dilapidated wooden cooling towers at the chiller plant with higher-efficiency towers, swapping existing steam lines with natural gas lines, and adding a new compressed air facility on the site’s east end, according to a July […]

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking sources to determine the feasibility of building a 64,800-square-foot construction support facility at Y-12, estimated to cost between $10 and $25 million and to require about 1 1/2 years to complete, according to an announcement posted on Fed Biz Opps late Tuesday afternoon. “The proposed project is […]

The Energy Department, IBM and NVIDIA yesterday announced plans to establish Centers of Excellence for Supercomputing at Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge national labs, according to a press release. The announcement was made at the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt. The collaborations support IBM’s supercomputing contract with DOE, and will “enable advanced, large-scale scientific and […]

Alissa Tabirian NS&D Monitor 7/10/2015 The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $5.89 million contract to Emerald-A&H Joint Venture for site infrastructure and services at the Y-12 National Security Complex’s Uranium Processing Facility (UPF), according to last month’s award announcement. The “field readiness activities” to be performed by the contractor include the development of […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 7/10/2015 The National Nuclear Security Administration recently released a draft environmental assessment for a proposed new 17,000-square-foot emergency operations center (EOC) at Y-12 that would consolidate the Plant Shift Superintendent’s Office, the Emergency Command Center, the Technical Support Center, and the Fire Department Control Room from their present locations to a […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration recently released a draft environmental assessment for a proposed new 17,000 square-foot emergency response facility that would consolidate the Plant Shift Superintendent’s Office, the Emergency Command Center, the Technical Support Center, and the Fire Department Control Room from their present locations to a “survivable facility.” NNSA will accept public comments […]

Los Alamos National Laboratory on June 1 submitted a recommendation to NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs Don Cook to pursue a fire alarm system replacement for the lab’s TA-55 (Phase 3) Reinvestment project, according to a recently released Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board site representative report, dated June 5. LANL considered the replacement along […]

AREVA announced yesterday the successful delivery of its new generation of robots to the French Atomic Energy Commission. The robot, named RIANA (Robot for Investigations and Assessments of Nuclear Areas) has the ability to operate in radioactive areas to map, take samples or to measure radioactivity, the company said. It features 3D and thermal cameras […]

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) is seeking clarification on the “confinement of radioactive materials following a design basis earthquake” at the Y-12 National Security Complex’s Uranium Processing Facility (UPF), according to a letter it sent last week to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The letter says that a DNFSB safety review found that "if […]

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $5.9 million contract to Emerald-A&H Jv for site infrastructure and services at the Y-12 National Security Complex’s Uranium Processing Facility, according to last week’s award announcement. The “field readiness activities” to be performed by the contractor include the development of a site layout and traffic control plan, […]

The Department of Energy’s Integrated Support Center-Oak Ridge has awarded Black Box Corporation $33.4 million for “operations, maintenance and upgrades to the Oak Ridge Federal Integrated Communications Network,” the company announced yesterday. The Pennsylvania-based company will provide integrated telecommunications support for sites that include Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 Security Complex, the statement […]