Vol. 5, No. 42

Plutonium Pit Production

South Carolina, NNSA Could be Close to Settling $200M Plutonium Lawsuit

South Carolina and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) could be about to cut a deal in the state’s $200 million lawsuit over the federal government’s failure to remove plutonium from the Savannah River Site, court papers show. In a joint motion filed Thursday, lawyers for the two sides said settlement negotiations are ongoing and asked […]
  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Sandia Closes Building 823 Temporarily After COVID-19 Case Confirmed

    The Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories said Monday it evacuated and closed Building 823 at its Albuquerque, N.M., facility after confirming a case of COVID-19 among the workforce there.  Sandia will now disinfect the building, which houses laboratory space used by Sandia’s geosciences program and others, and track down anybody there who had close contact […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Defense Biz Insulates BWXT From Worst of Pandemic Ills

    Insulated from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic by its large government contracts and a bread-and-butter nuclear Navy business that didn’t shut down in the spring, BWX Technologies posted a modest uptick in both profit and revenue for the second quarter of 2020. Quarterly net income rose $5 million to about $64 million, or $0.67 […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    AECOM Revenue Drops, Income Numbers Mixed, in 3Q

    AECOM on Tuesday reported a 5% drop in overall revenue for the third quarter of its 2020 fiscal year, while income figures mostly rose. Revenue fell from nearly $3.4 billion in third-quarter 2019 to just shy of $3.2 billion for the three-month reporting period through June 30. However, net service revenue (which excludes subcontractor expenses) […]

  • Decommissioning

    Portsmouth Radiation Dose Well Under Federal Limits, DOE Says

    Potential radiation dose in 2018 to individuals from the Portsmouth Site in Ohio was well under limits set by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency, according to new figures. The Energy Department last week issued the latest version of its annual site environmental report for the former uranium enrichment complex in Pike County. […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Barrasso Wants Annual DOE Report on Rad Waste Costs

    Pending legislation from Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) would require the Department of Energy to each year account for continuing and anticipated costs for management of the nation’s inventory of radioactive waste. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which Barrasso chairs, is scheduled Wednesday to consider the discussion draft of the American Nuclear Infrastructure Act […]

  • Decommissioning

    EnergySolutions Hires New Chief Operating Officer

    A longtime executive for U.S. and Canadian power companies is scheduled to join nuclear services firm EnergySolutions in September as chief operating officer. Jeff Richardson “comes to EnergySolutions with a proven history of safety, operational excellence, vision and success within the Nuclear Industry,” the Salt Lake City-based company said in a brief statement Monday. “Jeff’s […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    NRC Nuclear Waste Fund Spending Dips Again

    After a brief spike for May, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in June returned to the standard practice of spending just a few hundred dollars of its remaining balance from the federal fund intended to pay for a permanent radioactive waste disposal facility. The NRC outlay from its Nuclear Waste Fund carryover for the month totaled […]

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