Vol. 6, No. 31

Cleanup & Remediation

Vaccine Slots Available at Hanford; Eight More Workers Test Positive

Appointments to receive Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine are available from the occupational medicine contractor at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state, where eight workers have since Saturday tested positive for the disease. The latest four positive tests at Hanford were reported Tuesday, according to a DOE website run by Hanford’s Leidos-led landlord contractor. […]
  • Contracts & Procurement

    Waiting Game Continues on New Idaho Cleanup Contract

    More than 10 months ago the Department of Energy published its final solicitation for a new $6.4-billion Idaho Cleanup Project contract with a 10-year ordering period and industry sources are keeping watch. Bid proposals for the environmental work around the Idaho National Laboratory were due last July. The two incumbents, Fluor Idaho has the five-year, […]

  • Commercial Decommissioning

    Holtec, Massachusetts Settle Over Pilgrim Nuke Plant Sale

    After nearly a year of deliberations, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has finalized a settlement agreement with the company set to take over Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. The settlement document, dated Tuesday, withdraws Massachusetts’s objections to the Cape Cod-based plant’s license transfer to Holtec International from Entergy for decommissioning. The commonwealth in 2019 filed petitions with […]

  • Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad

    Northrop Sets GBSD Baseline; Doesn’t Divulge Details

    The prime contractor for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrence wrapped up a key review for the program and set a cost and schedule baseline for the Air Force’s next-generation, nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile. Northrop Grumman, which holds a $13 billion Air Force engineering and manufacturing development contract to build the first tranche of Ground Based […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    DOE Looks to Small Firm for On-Call Regulatory Work at Oak Ridge Lab

    The Department of Energy expects to sign a small firm, Strata-G, to perform regulatory work on short notice connected with cleanup at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. This purchase order is for up to two years and not to exceed $150,000, a DOE spokesperson said Tuesday of the proposed sole source set-aside notice  […]

  • Warhead & Weapons Development

    Russia Added 100+ Warheads Under New START in Last Year

    Russia has over 100 more strategic nuclear warheads deployed than it had at this time last year, according to the latest data shared by the State Department from the recently renewed New START Nuclear Arms Control Treaty. On Feb. 3, the U.S. and Russia officially extended New START until Feb. 5, 2026. The Joe Biden […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Correction

    An article in Tuesday’s Weapons Complex Morning Briefing [“Better Guidance Urged for Interim Storage of Spent Fuel at Hanford”] should have reported that an Amentum-led group has managed Central Plateau cleanup since Jan. 25, 2021. 

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