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A Sept. 24 article in Weapons Complex Monitor [“DNFSB Questions if Time Made Stranded Drums Safe for Travel”], should have identified a Sept. 8 letter to the Department of Energy’s Carlsbad Field Office as a letter requesting a report. The article relied…

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Oak Ridge Cleanup Award Expected by New Year’s, DOE Says

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DOE Guidance Calls for Inserting Vax Mandate into Site Contracts

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Hirees Will Outpace Retirees at Savannah River Lab This Decade; Site Security Still Undecided

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Akima Protests North Wind Site Services Award at Portsmouth

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Former Central Plateau Boss Leading Jacobs Transition in Idaho

Two large concrete cooling towers standing at a nuclear plant site ahead of planned demolition.

Contractor Brings Down Last of DOE Buildings at Santa Susana’s ETEC Site

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Washington Lawmakers Ask Biden to Drop Challenge to Hanford Law

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DOE Completes Startup Testing for Liquid Disposal at Waste Treatment Plant

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Portsmouth Advisory Board Scuttles October Meeting

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DOE’s Office of Inspector General to Tackle Many Issues in Fiscal 2022

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Plaintiffs Suing Portsmouth Contractors Seek Too Much Data Too Soon, Judge Holds

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Wrap Up: Fires Put Out, Job Moves Across the Complex

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