Vol. 5, No. 23 Y-12, Pantex Order All Nonessential Workers Out
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Cleanup & Remediation
Hanford Cautions New Telecommuters About Cybersecurity Hazards
Federal and contractor employees for the Hanford Site in Washington state should be particularly vigilant about cyber threats while they work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Energy Department said this week. An Energy Department spokesperson said last week that 60% of Hanford’s 11,000-person workforce was telecommuting following the March 31 transition to essential […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Senate Armed Services Cancels ‘Paper Hearing’ on DOE Nuke Budget
The Senate Armed Services Committee called off an exchange of letters and statements about the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons budget that was scheduled today between lawmakers and top managers from the agency and the Pentagon. The so-called paper hearing was scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. The committee had not announced a makeup date […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
COVID-19 Pandemic Puts Brakes on Sampling Around Ohio Middle School
The current COVID-19 public health emergency, which has laid waste to scheduled events great and small, is delaying plans to sample for potential radiological contamination around a Pike County, Ohio, middle school near the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site. Officials from the DOE Office of Environmental Management said during a March industry conference in Phoenix they […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Texas Commission OKs Publication, Hearing for Rad Waste Disposal Charge Reduction
The members of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on Wednesday unanimously approved the next steps in revising state regulations to reduce one charge for disposal of low-level radioactive waste in a state-owned facility operated by Waste Control Specialists. The vote by the three-member panel sets up publication and a hearing on the amendment to […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Tribal Firm Wins $22 Million Award for Tech Support to DOE Nuclear Cleanup
S&K Federal Services, a small tribally owned business based in Montana, has received a potential five-year, $22 million contract to provide technical support services to the Energy Department Office of Environmental Management. The office said in a Wednesday press release the S&K contract supports the Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC) in Cincinnati and small […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Montana Delays Final TENORM Disposal Rules
The state of Montana has delayed until May final publication of new rules on landfill disposal of technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials (TENORM) waste in landfills. The Montana Department of Environmental Quality had planned to issue its notice of adoption this month, but has pushed that back to May 29 due to the COVID-19 […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Correction
The Waste Treatment Plant at the Hanford Site in Washington state is under court order to demonstrate it can convert low-activity tank waste into glass by the end of 2023, and effectively do the same thing for high-level waste by the end of 2033. An article in the Wednesday Weapons Complex Morning Briefing misstated the […]