CAST Specialty Transportation Inc. and Visionary Solutions, LLC, will continue to provide transportation services to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant under new contracts awarded yesterday. The contracts are firm fixed-price with cost-reimbursable expenses over five years, consisting of one-year base periods and four one-year option periods. The total value of the contracts is approximately $120 million each if all options are exercised, according to DOE.
NEW: Via public records request, I’ve been able to confirm reporting today that a warrant has been issued for DOE deputy asst. secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition Sam Brinton for another luggage theft, this time at Las Vegas’s Harry Reid airport. (cc: @EMPublications)
DOE spent fuel lead Brinton accused of second luggage theft.
by @BenjaminSWeiss, confirming today's reports with warrant from Las Vegas Metro PD.
Waste has been Emplaced! 🚮
We have finally begun emplacing defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in Panel 8 of #WIPP.
Read more about the waste emplacement here: https://wipp.energy.gov/wipp_news_20221123-2.asp
Editorial: Sam Brinton’s credibility is now an issue 🔓