Cleanup & Remediation

EDITORIAL: It’s Time to Separate Out Cleanup Work from Los Alamos, Other NNSA Sites

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This is an idea whose time has come at last: The Department of Energy needs to break out cleanup work at Los Alamos National Laboratory and other National Nuclear Security Administration sites under separate contracts managed by the Office of Environmental Management.
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More Than $100 Million for WIPP Recovery in Bills, but House and Senate Disagree on Source

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Senate and House FY15 Spending Bills Boost Cleanup Funds, While House Cuts SRS Budget

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How Should DOE Promote Small Business Subcontracts in the Next Round of Primes?

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INTERVIEW: Poneman Looks Back on Contract Mgmt. Improvements, Cleanup Challenges

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EM-1 Nominee Breezes Through Hearing, Doesn’t Indicate Big Changes for Program

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Deputy Energy Secretary Poneman to Leave DOE This Fall

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DOE Gearing Up to Compete New Oak Ridge TWPC Contract

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House Appropriators Again Take DOE to Task Over Project Management Concerns

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Senate Bill Would Reauthorize Uranium Enrichment D&D Fund

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Fluor-B&W Portsmouth Working to Improve NDA Program

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DOE Launching New Investigation Into WIPP Incidents

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South Carolina Warns DOE That Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Penalties May be Coming

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Converdyn Sues DOE In Effort to Halt Uranium Transfers

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URS Shuffles Leadership at Oak Ridge, Savannah River Cleanup Contractors

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Parsons Rejects DOE Final Offer on SWPF Startup

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U.K. Cleanup Focus

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At River Protection

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

At Richland

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

At Oak Ridge

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

Wrap Up: In DOE, In The DNFSB

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WIR, state comment period address some of grout issues at Hanford

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