With 2023 winding down, the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup office on Tuesday offered a broad overview of how most of its nuclear-weapons cleanup contractors performed during the year.
Most results shared in the Office of Environmental Management’s house newsletter were for fiscal 2023, which ended Sept. 30. DOE had not published all the contractor scorecards online as of Wednesday.
- Hanford Site in Washington state: Amentum-led Washington River Protection Solutions, the tank operations contractor in charge of liquid radioactive waste, was awarded nearly $38.5 million, or 82% of the available fee of about $47 million for the 2023 government fiscal year, DOE said. Its ratings were similar on the objective, or measurable, goals (81%) and subjective performance as judged by DOE (84%), according to the fee scorecard.
- Navarro-led Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration, which runs the 222-S Laboratory that provides storage and analytical support for Hanford’s tank waste, won over $3.4 million, or 74% of the available $4.6 million for its work. The contractor earned 69% of its objective fee and 82% of its subjective fee, according to the scorecard. The scorecard listed safety and subcontractor concerns as two “areas for improvement.”
- Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina: Fluor-led management prime Savannah River Nuclear Solutions received over $27.9 million, or 96% of the available pot of nearly $29 million. It earned nearly 100% of its objective fee and 90% of the subjective fee, according to the scorecard.
- BWX Technologies-led liquid waste contractor Savannah River Mission Completion took home more than $1.72 million, or nearly 99% of the available fee of nearly $1.74 million. The contractor got 100% of the objective and 84% of the subjective criteria, according to the scorecard.
- Centerra-Savannah River Site, the security contractor, was awarded more than $4.76 million, or 92% of the available fee of over $5.16 million for the period of Oct. 8, 2022, to July 14, 2023. After a series of protests, Centerra started a new decade-long, $1 billion contract in July. The contractor’s scorecard ratings are largely subjective.
- Savannah River National Laboratory: Management contractor Battelle Savannah River Alliance earned nearly $5.9 million, or 97% of the almost $6.1 million available, according to the scorecard. The Battelle-led contractor provides scientific and technological support at the research and development laboratory, which mostly serves DOE’s nuclear waste cleanup program.
- Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee: Amentum-led United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR), earned nearly $29 million, or 94% of the available fee of about $31 million for the fiscal year. UCOR won 100% of the objective fee and 90% of the subjective fee, according to the scorecard.
- Paducah Site in Kentucky: Jacobs-led remediation contractor Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership, won about $8 million, or 92% of the available fee of nearly $8.7 million for the fiscal year, according to DOE.
- Portsmouth Site in Ohio: Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth, the decontamination and decommissioning contractor, earned about $11.5 million, or 97% of the available fee of more than $11.8 million for the six-month period of March 29 to Sept. 30, according to DOE.
- Atkins-led Mid-America Conversion Services, which runs the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion plants at Portsmouth and Paducah, earned about $6.7 million, or 61% of the available $11 million fee for the fiscal year, according to DOE.
- Nevada National Security Site: Remediation contractor Navarro Research and Engineering took home nearly $1.82 million, or 93% of the available fee of almost $1.96 million for the fiscal year, according to DOE.
- Idaho National Laboratory: Jacobs-led cleanup contractor Idaho Environmental Coalition received nearly $35.2 million, or 96% of the available fee of more than $36.8 million for fiscal year 2023. The work included the startup of the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico: Legacy remediation contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos earned more than $13.2 million, or 77% of the available fee of about $17.2 million for the fiscal year. This included 79% of the objective fee and 73% of the subjective fee, according to the scorecard.
- Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico: Bechtel’s Salado Isolation Mining Contractors, the prime, earned about $11.5 million, or about 89% of the available $13 million fee for the period of Feb. 4 to Sept. 30 this year, according to DOE. Salado took over from an Amentum-BWXT partnership in February.
