Transuranic Waste

Operations have fully resumed at Idaho’s Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project following a safety pause instituted in response to a series of Technical Safety Requirement violations. Among the corrective actions taken during the pause, according to managing contractor Idaho Treatment Group, was Technical Safety Requirement retraining for first-line managers, Conduct of Operation proficiency demonstrations, procedure […]

S.M. Stoller is set to get an extension of up to 12 months on its current contract to provide mobile loading services for transuranic waste at various generator sites, according to a Department of Energy notice issued late last week. The extension is set to run for a base period of six months, from May […]

The New Mexico Environment Department Tuesday turned down a Department of Energy request to allow remote-handled (RH) waste to be disposed of in shielded drums alongside regular transuranic waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Currently, the more highly radioactive RH waste must be processed separately, using remote handling equipment, and it must be disposed […]

In response to a series of incidents where workers failed to fully abide by administrative procedures, Idaho Treatment Group, LLC, has instituted a safety stand-down at the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project at the Department of Energy’s Idaho site. The stand-down, which went into effect Feb. 14, applies to nuclear facility operations and maintenance work. […]

A host of New Mexico state lawmakers are calling on Congressional appropriators to ensure that adequate levels of funding are provided for cleanup work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. In letters sent Feb. 14 to the heads of the House and Senate Energy and Water Appropriations subcommittees, the […]

Technical issues have forced the Department of Energy to significantly revise its transuranic waste processing goals at Oak Ridge, according to a DOE Inspector General’s Office report released yesterday. While the Oak Ridge Transuranic Waste Processing Center, managed by Wastren Advantage, was initially expected to process 1,000 cubic meters of contact-handled transuranic waste by September […]

CAST Specialty Transportation Inc. and Visionary Solutions, LLC, will continue to provide transportation services to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant under new contracts awarded yesterday. The contracts are firm fixed-price with cost-reimbursable expenses over five years, consisting of one-year base periods and four one-year option periods. The total value of the contracts is approximately $120 […]

In hindsight, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental may have been better served by not running the search for a new managing contractor for the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project through the DOE Idaho Operations Office, according to Deputy Assistant EM Secretary for Acquisition and Contract Management Jack Surash. “I think if we had […]

A Savannah River Site worker who became internally contaminated with radioactive material last year is not expected to suffer any long-term negative effects as a result, SRS managing contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions said yesterday. According to SRNS, the worker received “a final Committed Effective Dose of 31.6 REM” as a result of a puncture […]

The Department of Energy and Idaho Treatment Group, LLC, are in talks to add language setting financial penalties for the early departure of key personnel to ITG’s contract to manage the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project at DOE’s Idaho site, WC Monitor has learned. The discussions come after ITG has already moved to replace two […]

Contractors at the Department of Energy’s Idaho site have reversed course on another possible key personnel change that would have impacted Idaho Treatment Group, LLC, the managing contractor for DOE’s Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project. Earlier this month, Battelle Energy Alliance—the managing contractor for Idaho National Laboratory—announced that Scott Raish, who currently serves as ITG’s […]

Though operations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant have been halted indefinitely following a fire underground this week, officials are optimistic that it will not put the Los Alamos National Laboratory transuranic waste campaign milestone at risk. 

TRU SHIPMENTS TO WIPP COULD RESUME NEXT MONTH