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FEATURED UNLOCKED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
AECOM-Led Joint Venture Wins Potential $10 Billion Hanford Cleanup Contract
The U.S. Energy Department said Thursday it has awarded a potential 10-year, $10 billion contract for ongoing remediation of the Hanford Site Central Plateau in Washington state to a joint venture of AECOM, Fluor, and Atkins. The proposal by Central Plateau Cleanup Co., as the partnership is known, provides the best value to the federal government on cost, key personnel, past performance, and technical and management approach, DOE’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center said in a press release. The AECOM-Fluor-Atkins team apparently outdid two other major bidders, one headed by Jacobs and the other led by Bechtel, an industry source said Thursday. The source did not know what other companies… |
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DOE Inching Toward Full 2020 Appropriations as Bills Cruise Through Congress
The U.S. Senate passed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Tuesday, as the House approved appropriations bills for the federal fiscal year: legislation that, together, would provide year-over-year raises for almost all Department of Energy nuclear cleanup and… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
Compromise NDAA Seeks Financial Data on Energy Dept. Nuclear Cleanup Milestones
A defense policy bill on the verge of passage would require the U.S. Energy Department to provide Congress with anticipated costs of complying with court-enforced consent decrees at nuclear cleanup sites. The final version of the fiscal 2020 National Defense… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
New Energy Secretary Skirts Senator’s Questions on Consent for Nuclear Waste Siting
New Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette skirted a Nevada senator’s questions regarding his position on requiring consent from impacted state, local, and tribal communities in selecting the site for storage of nuclear waste. The issue of consent is of keen… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
NNSA Will Strip Some W87-1 Features to Pay for Overruns on Other Nukes
MCLEAN, Va. — The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans to help defray cost overruns on two nuclear-weapon refurbishments by stripping features out of the planned warhead for the Air Force's next land-based intercontinental ballistic missile, a senior agency… |
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