Cleanup & Remediation

Cleanup to Clean Energy status update: solar now planned at five DOE sites

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Here is a look at how far five Department of Energy nuclear-weapon sites have come in the year since the agency announced a drive to repurpose underutilized land for clean energy generation. 
DOE’s Cleanup to Clean Energy Project launched in July 2023. It was…

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A worker in safety gear inspecting large concrete storage modules built to hold spent nuclear fuel containers.

Federal court judge approves November start of Hanford WTP cold commissioning

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

DOE market research gets underway for next step of Los Alamos cleanup

A tunnel boring machine operating inside an underground rock-salt mine tunnel.

Better roads to WIPP; monitoring of Hanford Building 324, concern Senate panel

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

Most of corrugated metal pipe dug up at Los Alamos, N3B says

Two professionals reviewing and signing a contract document together in an office setting.

Nuclear sector companies claw back from Monday stock market plunge

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

‘Acting’ deleted from Hanford landlord executive titles

Two professionals reviewing and signing a contract document together in an office setting.

BWXT CEO Geveden: Hanford contract case could be resolved within months

The U.S. Capitol dome framed by trees with an overlay of paper currency, symbolizing federal budget appropriations.

Dem incumbent falls; GOP lawmaker stays alive in House primaries

Two professionals reviewing and signing a contract document together in an office setting.

Jacobs earnings dip prior to late September closing of Amentum deal

Two professionals reviewing and signing a contract document together in an office setting.

Expanding Amentum made big acquisitions in recent years

A scientist in a lab coat and gloves examining a sample through a microscope in a research laboratory.

Oak Ridge Lab couple tell Sixth Circuit district judge erred in COVID vax case

Two professionals reviewing and signing a contract document together in an office setting.

Wrap Up: AtkinsRéalis, BWXT see earnings rise; Wet storage time cut for Canadian plant; more

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