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NNSA Pushing Consolidated Nuclear Security Out at Pantex, Y-12
The Department of Energy will not pick up the remaining options on Bechtel National-led Consolidated Nuclear Security’s contract to manage the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee and Pantex Plant in Texas, which now will expire after Sept. 30, 2021. Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS) will leave three years’ worth of options on the table, under the contract worth roughly $2 billion annually. The contractor fell well short of the 80% at-risk fee it needed to earn for fiscal 2019 to trigger the next two-year option on the pact, earning only about 70%, or some $28 million, according to the performance evaluation published Tuesday. Kicking CNS out seven years into a…		 Upcoming Events

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To settle a 2018 lawsuit over storage of plutonium, the Department of Energy tentatively agreed not to send more of the weapon-usable material to Nevada, the state said Friday. Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced the development in a press…
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Draft NRC Enviro Doc for Used-Fuel Storage Facility Not Sufficient, Critics Say
By John Stang A draft federal environmental impact statement (EIS) for a proposed used nuclear fuel storage site in southeastern New Mexico focuses on a 40-year licensing period, and does not sufficiently consider that the radioactive material might remain there…
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GAO Asks If Cost-Savings Methods at Pantex/Y-12 Could Work at Other NNSA Sites
A day after the National Nuclear Security Administration announced it would not pick up the remaining options on the existing management deal for its Y-12 and Pantex sites, the Government Accountability Office on Wednesday urged the agency to study whether…
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