Reindustrialization & Redevelopment

After years of preparation, the Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative (SODI) will formally become the owner of an 80-acre tract of land being conveyed to it by the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site on Friday. “We are thrilled to get this property … and eventually bring jobs to Southern Ohio,” SODI Executive Director Steve Shepherd said by […]

A search committee for the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities (RCLC) in New Mexico last week interviewed candidates to become the organization’s new executive director, and could fill the post this summer. The RCLC board panel expects “to negotiate a contract with the preferred applicant over the next few weeks and plan for the entire […]

A search committee for the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities (RCLC) in New Mexico last week interviewed candidates to become the organization’s new executive director, and could fill the post this summer. The RCLC board panel expects “to negotiate a contract with the preferred applicant over the next few weeks and plan for the entire […]

A search committee for the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities (RCLC) in New Mexico last week interviewed candidates to become the organization’s new executive director, and could fill the post this summer. The RCLC board panel expects “to negotiate a contract with the preferred applicant over the next few weeks and plan for the entire […]

The Regional Coalition of LANL Communities (RCLC) could hire a new executive director by the end of the month. The deadline for the RCLC’s request for proposals was June 6, and the executive committee of the group’s Board of Directors’ could make a recommendation at a board meeting tentatively set for June 29, Los Alamos […]

The Board of Directors for the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities (RCLC) could hire a new executive director for the organization by the end of the month. The deadline for the RCLC’s request for proposals was June 6, and the board’s executive committee could make a recommendation at a board meeting tentatively set for June […]

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) has turned over for eventual private use parcels of land that once held two gaseous diffusion facilities at the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee. The sites of the K-31 and K-33 buildings cover about 215 acres in what is now the East Tennessee Technology […]

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) has turned over for eventual private use parcels of land that once held two gaseous diffusion facilities at the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee. The sites of the K-31 and K-33 buildings cover about 215 acres in what is now the East Tennessee Technology […]

Contractors from CTI and Associates Inc. are finishing the final paperwork on a demolished switchyard at the old Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Tennessee. Last week, CTI hauled the last pieces of the switchyard away from the site, now called the East Tennessee Technology Park. Constructed in 1944, the 4-acre K-732 switchyard was one […]

The remaining portions of the site that once housed the old Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Tennessee will be fully remediated within three years, well ahead of the original schedule, according to Ken Rueter, president of Energy Department site cleanup contractor URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR). The last Manhattan Project-era uranium enrichment building, K-27, came […]

Five citizens groups on Wednesday sued the U.S. Interior Department over plans to build park infrastructure and services at the Energy Department’s former plutonium pit production site at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Plant in Colorado. The groups suing are: the Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center; Candelas Glows/Rocky Flats Glows; Rocky Flats Right To Know; […]

Five citizens groups on Wednesday sued the U.S. Interior Department over plans to build park infrastructure and services at the Energy Department’s former plutonium pit production site at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Plant in Colorado. The groups suing are: the Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center; Candelas Glows/Rocky Flats Glows; Rocky Flats Right To Know; […]

The Department of Energy announced last week that it would provide $2.785 million for a five-year project to determine potential “issues of concern” for a Native American pueblo near the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The Santa Clara Pueblo is one of four pueblo governments in the state that participate in a program […]

The Department of Energy announced last week that it would provide $2.785 million for a five-year project to determine potential “issues of concern” for a Native American pueblo near the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The Santa Clara Pueblo is one of four pueblo governments in the state that participate in a program intended […]

Carlsbad, N.M., is open for nuclear business, John Heaton said proudly last week. There are a few irons in the fire — the city is all in favor of the consolidated interim nuclear waste-storage facility Holtec International wants to build outside town — but Carlsbad’s crown jewel is, of course, the Energy Department’s Waste Isolation […]

Carlsbad, N.M., is open for nuclear business, John Heaton said proudly last week. There are a few irons in the fire — the city is all in favor of the consolidated interim nuclear waste-storage facility Holtec International wants to build outside town — but Carlsbad’s crown jewel is, of course, the Energy Department’s Waste Isolation […]

A regional group that supports job creation near the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., was recently given $1 million to help fill future workforce needs at the site. The Department of Energy announced Monday that the grant totals $5 million that will be rationed out over five years. The money falls under the Workforce […]

A regional group that supports job creation near the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., was recently given $1 million to help fill future workforce needs at the site. The Department of Energy announced Monday that the grant totals $5 million that will be rationed out over five years. The money falls under the Workforce […]

The Graniteville, S.C.-based Savannah River Site Community Reuse Organization has received a $5 million, five-year grant to prepare students for careers supporting the Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management and National Nuclear Security Administration. The Workforce Opportunities in Regional Careers (WORC) program “will support and enhance the nation’s environmental management efforts by increasing the […]

Karl Herchenroeder RW Monitor 01/29/16 A partnership of four companies has been confirmed to support decommissioning of Britain’s Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing and decommissioning site, with a stipulation that the group funnel an estimated £500 million into a socioeconomic benefits package expected to create 1,140 jobs per year until 2025. Located in Cumbria, England, Sellafield […]

Brian Bradley WC Monitor 10/16/2015 If the American Centrifuge Plant is shut down in line with Energy Department plans, the city of Portsmouth, Ohio, would lose $40,000 in annual revenue, and if Portsmouth Site decontamination and decommissioning work does not move forward, the city would lose $100,000 in yearly income tax, Portsmouth City Auditor M. […]

Staff Reports WC Monitor 10/9/2015 A report on risk-based management of Department of Energy defense cleanup sites fails to recognize the role of local communities in defining risk and their critical place in making decisions on remediation, according to the Energy Communities Alliance. The organization, which represents communities near DOE cleanup sites across the nation, […]

Staff Reports WC Monitor 10/2/2015 The Department of Energy this week transferred 1,641 acres of largely undeveloped land at the Hanford Site in Washington state to the Tri-City Development Council (TRIDEC), its community reuse organization. The acreage  is less than 0.5 percent of the total Hanford land and is in an area designated by the […]

DOE WANTS TO INCREASE ACCESS TO CLEANED LAND WC Monitor 3/28/2014 The Department of Energy wants to provide additional access to Hanford land as it is cleaned up, said David Huizenga of DOE’s Office of Environmental Management at a House Cleanup Caucus briefing this week. “The overall thrust is to try to turn some of […]

The Energy Communities Alliance, which represents local governments near DOE sites, is set to hold a peer exchange meeting this week. Speakers at the meeting are set to include Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), chair of the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee; Bruce Held, acting head of the National Nuclear Security Administration; and DOE Deputy […]

Local officials from communities near Department of Energy sites are calling on DOE to withdraw a recently released rule governing land transfers and allow for more public comment before any changes are made. At issue is a rule set to go into effect Dec. 13 that adds language to DOE’s land transfer regulations that local […]

A group of House lawmakers that represent various Department of Energy cleanup sites are calling on the Department to seek public comment before moving forward with a planned change to its land transfer regulations. At issue is a rule set to go into effect Dec. 13 that adds language to DOE’s land transfer regulations that […]

In the hopes of finding potential uses for the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant beyond next year, Department of Energy officials yesterday outlined the state of the facility and its capabilities in a meeting with about 20 companies and led a tour of the plant. The meeting comes as current plant operator USEC is likely to […]