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BWXT-Led Team Wins Potential $13B Hanford Tank Contract
A team led by BWX Technologies is the winner of the Energy Department’s Tank Closure Contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The DOE’s Office of Environmental Management announced the $13 billion contract award Thursday to Hanford Works Restoration. Along with Lynchburg, Va.-based BWXT, the other members of the team are Texas-based companies Fluor and Intera and Richland, Wash.-based DBD. Both BWXT and Fluor are well-known commodities in the Energy Department marketplace. Intera, a geoscience and engineering firm, previously performed modeling and risk analysis as a subcontractor to cleanup firm CH2M Plateau Remediation in its demolition of Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant. DBD, or Different by Design, is an an… |
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Energy Department Outlines Goals for Savannah River Lab Contract
The Energy Department anticipates the Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina will be better able to “engage with the research community” by having a its own operations contract, according to documents recently posted online. The slides used for an… |
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Groups Seek Extra $7.25B for DOE Nuclear Cleanup
A coalition of industry, labor, and community groups are asking Congress to fund a one-time $7.25 billion increase in funding for the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management. The COVID-19-related funding request arrived Friday, while officials with the Oak Ridge… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
NRC Approves First COVID-19 Exemption for Spent-Fuel Storage Rules
By John Stang The Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week approved its first regulatory exemption of the COVID-18 pandemic for a spent fuel storage licensee, along with lifting work-hour limits for another nuclear power plant. As of Wednesday, GE Hitachi Nuclear… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
NNSA Reports Just One New COVID-19 Case for Week; Two Labs Able to Test Personnel
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said it is tracking one new confirmed case of COVID-19 across its national network of sites, bringing the cumulative total for the agency up to 71 even as the number of active cases dropped… |
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