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AtkinsRéalis team again protests $45B Hanford tanks contract award
A team led by AtkinsRéalis Nuclear was back in federal court this week arguing that the Department of Energy improperly re-awarded a $45-billion liquid-waste-cleanup contract to a BWX Technologies-led joint venture. In a new complaint with the Court of Federal Claims, Atkins-led Hanford Tank Disposition Alliance said DOE’s court-ordered re-competition of the Hanford Integrated Tank Disposition Contract, which ended Feb. 29 with a re-award to Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure (H2C), was designed for the “sole purpose” of allowing H2C to fix an “incurably ineligible proposal.” DOE’s actions also clashed with legal precedents that suggest agencies should not “retroactively extend proposal deadlines,” said the Alliance, which also includes Jacobs… |
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No possibility of settling enviros’ suit against S.C. pit plant
Settlement talks collapsed weeks ago between the Department of Energy and environmental groups who sued the agency over its plan to produce nuclear-weapons cores in South Carolina, a Tuesday court filing shows. “Both parties were hopeful that the nearly two-month… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
New Mexico says not so fast to shipments of stranded transuranic waste to WIPP from WCS
New Mexico wants assurance transuranic waste, held 10 years at a commercial storage facility in Texas, won’t pose an ignition threat before signing off on shipment to the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. As a… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
Holtec conditionally gets its $1.5 billion loan from DOE to restart Palisades
Holtec will receive a $1.52 billion loan from the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office to restart the shuttered Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan, the agency announced this week. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced the conditional commitment on… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
NNSA No. 2 Rose to leave agency
Frank Rose, principal deputy administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, will leave the nuclear weapons agency this spring, his boss said Tuesday in an all-hands email. “Principal Deputy Administrator Frank Rose will be leaving,” National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)… |
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