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Member Sullivan Voted Against Emergency Preparedness Recommendation
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Over the past two years, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board members have clashed on a number of issues, from a recent recommendation…

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UCOR Earns Nearly 94 Percent of Available Fee in First Half of FY’14

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G4S Government Solutions to be Bought by Private Equity Firm

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Safety Culture Improvement at Hanford Will Take ‘Years,’ Officials Say

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Senior EM Official Defends Use of Cost Caps on Troubled Projects

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EM Will Make Maintenance and Infrastructure ‘Explicit Part’ Of Budget Planning Process

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CHBWV Focusing on Project Mgmt. After Earning 53 Percent of Award Fee in Latest Period

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Equipment Issues Disrupt IWTU Startup Testing

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DUF6 Plants Did Not Meet FY’14 100 Percent Capacity Goal

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U-233 Processing Schedule Still Uncertain, But Downblending Preparations Underway

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DOE Issues Draft RFP For New Idaho NRC-Licensed Facilities Contract

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Navarro Survives First Challenge to New NNSS Environmental Contract Award

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IG: DOE Should Keep Strengthening Cybersecurity Program

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PEC Adds to Protest of DOE HSS Support Services Contract

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DOE Bears Vast Majority of Former Commercial Uranium Mill Costs, Not Operators, IG Finds

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Wrap Up: Amentum opens HQ in Oak Ridge; Hanford’s old water plant demo starts; Deep Isolation gets Texas permit; more

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Years after the Department of Energy cancelled the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina, a company based in France is making ambitious plans for MOX at the nuclear complex.
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