Vol. 6, No. 80 NNSA Authorized for Full Funding and Then Some Under Draft House NDAA
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
NNSA HQ Praises Los Alamos Vaccine Requirement, Says Mandates are up to Contractors
Jill Hruby, who became administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration in the second year of the global COVID-19 pandemic, praised the Los Alamos National Laboratory this week for requiring lab personnel to get vaccinated against the disease. “I applaud the decision that Dr. Mason and Triad have made to protect their people from this […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Stage Set in the House for Infrastructure Bill Vote, Nuke Credits in Tow
The House should vote Sept. 27 on a bipartisan infrastructure bill that includes a cash injection for financially-struggling nuclear power plants, now that Democrats have resolved an intra-party logjam. Party leadership settled on that date Tuesday after several days of negotiations with dissenting House Democrats who did not want to continue work on a partisan […]
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Contracts & Procurement
With No SRS Waste Award Yet, Bid Offers Could Get Stale
If the Department of Energy does not make an award soon for the Integrated Mission Completion Contract at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, the agency might need to contact bidders to ensure offers on the multibillion-dollar procurement are still good, sources said this week. The DOE issued its request for proposals nearly 11 […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Swift & Staley Gets Favorable Ruling in Paducah Small Biz Lawsuit
Swift and Staley may yet keep a key small business support contract at the Paducah Site in Kentucky after the Court of Federal Claims last week granted motions sought by the contractor in a lawsuit. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Friday issued a written opinion, not yet publicly available, in an appeal Swift […]
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Decommissioning
Holtec Touts ‘Record-Setting Progress’ Decommissioning Oyster Creek, Pilgrim Nuclear Plants
The company in charge of decommissioning nuclear power plants in Massachusetts and New Jersey claims it’s transferring both sites’ spent fuel inventories to dry storage at an “unprecedented” pace, according to a press release Tuesday. At Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Massachusetts, spent fuel is being transferred to dry storage from the plant’s spent fuel […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Lawmaker Seeks Outside Probe of Ex-Ohio Board Chair in FirstEnergy Scandal
An Ohio lawmaker has requested the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio seek a third-party investigation of its former chair who resigned due to a scandal over state subsidies for two FirstEnergy nuclear reactors. On Wednesday, state Rep. Jeffrey Crossman (D) sent a letter to current Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) chair Jenifer French requesting […]