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President Donald Trump issued an executive order April 30 that seeks to shift government procurement toward greater use of firm-fixed-price contracts. It is a change that could have implications across the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons complex where “cost-plus” contracts are common. When it comes to nuclear remediation contracts, vendors often don’t know the full extent of radioactive contamination until they get started on the new job, one corporate executive told Exchange Monitor this week. “For too long, federal procurement has tolerated unpredictable costs, bloated overhead, and weak performance incentives,” Trump said in the order on “Promoting Efficiency, Accountability and Performance in Federal Contracting.” “The United States Government must adopt… |
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Senate EPW to hear from NRC on fiscal 2027 budget request
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold a fiscal 2027 budget hearing to discuss the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s request Wednesday morning. The hearing will be held in Room 406 in the Senate Dirksen Office Building at 10 a.m.… |
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Eldercare for old facilities costing EM more nowadays, GAO says
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) has plenty of facilities that are more than a half-century old and, since fiscal 2020, the cost of upkeep has more than doubled to $950 million yearly, according to a government… |
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Mammoth nuclear investment needed for U.S. goal of 400 GW by 2050, McKinsey says
To achieve an additional 300 gigawatts of nuclear power supplied exclusively by domestic resources, the United States needs to invest between $105 billion to $170 billion into the nuclear fuel supply chain, according to a McKinsey & Company report this… |
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Murray questions pit master schedule, Beck says LANL pits will triple by end of year
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) pressed David Beck, deputy administrator for defense programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), on whether the agency’s fiscal 2027 budget reflects a shifting strategy on plutonium pit production. During a Senate Appropriations Energy and… |
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