Vol. 8, No. 81 Jacobs reports lower earnings, higher revenue in its third fiscal quarter
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Innovation & Infrastructure
NNSA’s Albuquerque research campus earns agency’s first sustainable design badge
A National Nuclear Security Administration facility in Albuquerque, N.M., received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, a first for any of the agency’s roughly 1,000 buildings. The John A. Gordon Albuquerque Complex Facility, a satellite campus that provides high-performance computing, research and engineering capabilities to nearby Los […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Earnings and revenue rise at Parsons in second quarter
Revenue and earnings rose in the second quarter at Parsons Corp., Centreville, Va., buoyed year-over-year by the start of some federal contract work and the 2022 acquisition of cyber firm Xator. Net earnings for the second quarter ended were roughly $43 million, or $0.38 a share, up from about $18 million or $0.17 a share […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
To formalize financial aid to Diablo Canyon, Energy Department adopts NRC’s environmental reviews of plant
The Department of Energy said Friday it cleared a paperwork hurdle for a planned five-year extension of California’s Diablo Canyon Power Plant by adopting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s environmental reviews of the plant. DOE had a duty under federal law to do environmental diligence on Diablo Canyon after the department in 2022 agreed to provide […]
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Decommissioning
Capping years of talks with Kentucky, DOE cuts Four Rivers a task order for Paducah facilities demolition
The Department of Energy on Friday released a little more than $3.5 million in funding for Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership to demolish facilities at the shuttered Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky. The task order calls for demolition of the C-727 and C-146-A facilities. Parts of each formerly housed hazardous waste, so the Kentucky Energy […]
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International
IAEA finds no explosives atop two reactors at Ukraine’s besieged nuclear plant
International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors have gained access to the rooftops of two reactors of concern at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant and found no mines or explosives, the agency said Aug. 4. Inspectors had asked for access to the roof area of reactors three and four repeatedly but were denied entry to inspect for […]
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Budget & Policy
Federal offices in D.C. area empty early ahead of big storms
Employees of federal agencies, including the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, were racing home early ahead of a big storm front that threatened the Washington, D.C. region with wind, rain, hail and perhaps even tornadoes. The Office of Personnel Management on Monday announced that federal offices would close at 3 p.m. That […]