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

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Kenneth Fletcher
WC Monitor
10/31/2014
The Department of Energy is paying the vast majority of surveillance and maintenance costs for former commercial uranium mill sites that are supposed to be covered by fees charged to the mill operators, the DOE Inspector…

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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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DNFSB Vote Records Offer Insight Into Board Deliberations, Operations

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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 marks 20th anniversary of Fernald cleanup

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European company pushes for new MOX facility

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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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