Cleanup & Remediation

Hanford remediation could extend to nearly 22nd century

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Workers clean up the former site of the 6652-T Fire Protection Lower Pump House on the upper Arid Lands Ecology Reserve. Last week, CHPRC demolished this structure as well as the 6652-D and 6652-U Water Storage Tanks.

A 21-year-old who starts working at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state this year could have a 50-plus-year career and still retire before the former plutonium production facility is officially cleaned up.
DOE currently projects, with…

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The U.S. Capitol dome framed by trees with an overlay of paper currency, symbolizing federal budget appropriations.

Granholm fields House lawmaker questions on Hanford, NNSA

Two professionals reviewing and signing a contract document together in an office setting.

Subs, small businesses short-changed from Bechtel vit contract, OIG finds

The U.S. Capitol dome framed by trees with an overlay of paper currency, symbolizing federal budget appropriations.

Minibus appropriations bill with Defense Department funds has Price-Anderson extension

A tunnel boring machine operating inside an underground rock-salt mine tunnel.

Hanford lays groundwork for resumption of TRU shipments to WIPP

A tunnel boring machine operating inside an underground rock-salt mine tunnel.

WIPP works on defining legacy waste, finishing big infrastructure projects

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

Federal judge again rejects adding plaintiffs to current UCOR COVID case

Two professionals reviewing and signing a contract document together in an office setting.

UCOR inks multiyear deal contract with building trades union

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

In revised complaint, plaintiff Shaw points to cancer rates around Portsmouth Site

Two professionals reviewing and signing a contract document together in an office setting.

DOE rejects deadline extension for Portsmouth-Paducah tech support RFP

A tunnel boring machine operating inside an underground rock-salt mine tunnel.

WIPP should have reported when 2 miners were stuck in hoist, board says

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

DOE agrees to install mobile showers at Hanford disposal site under settlement

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

Wrap Up: EM forecasts only 2 RFPs this summer; Ex-Hanford EPA boss dies in accident; Idaho DOE managers to brief congress; and more

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