Vol. 5, No. 71 Uranium Purification Pact With BWXT Subsidiary Won’t Cost Y-12 Jobs, NNSA Says
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Cleanup & Remediation
SRS Boss Talks COVID-19, Procurement During Board Appearance
The top boss for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina said Monday that major contractor awards could be made soon and there have been “somewhere north of 700” total confirmed cases of the coronavirus at the complex so far. “We continue to get COVID cases […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Ohio Utilities Regulator Seeking New Chairman
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Nominating Council is seeking a new chairman after its former leader resigned two weeks ago, when his home was raided by the FBI, according to a Monday press release. The raid happened just days after FirstEnergy Corp., the energy utility at the center of one of the largest public […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
16 More Employees Test Positive at Hanford Site
Another 16 workers at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state informed management Monday they have tested positive for the coronavirus. The latest COVID-19 cases were disclosed on the emergency operations website run by contractor Mission Support Alliance at the former plutonium production complex. The unofficial tally of cases is now 244 based […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
NNSA New COVID Cases Again Top 250 in a Week, With Another Fatality
There were 270 new, confirmed COVID-19 cases, including another fatal case, among National Nuclear Security Administration contractor employees and civil servants as of the end of the Thanksgiving holiday week, an agency spokesperson said Monday. The fatal case was at the Los Alamos National Laboratory: the second COVID-19 death at the nation’s first nuclear weapons […]