Vol. 5, No. 86 Fluor’s Q3 Revenue Dips; Company Returns to Regular Reporting Sked
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
One More Month to Narrow Down Tech Choice for New Domestic Uranium Enrichment, NNSA Says
The coronavirus pandemic pushed a choice between two competing defense-uranium enrichment technologies to January from December, the National Nuclear Security Administration said Wednesday. It’s the second time this year the agency has delayed the day of reckoning between the AC100 technology that Centrus Energy Corp., Bethesda, Md., started developing around 2012, and a smaller-scale enrichment […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Fluor-BWXT Has 74 Workers Sign Up for Early Buyout
Seventy-four employees have agreed to take a voluntary buyout from the decommissioning and demolition contractor at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio. Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth announced the results of its Self-Select Voluntary Separation Program in a Wednesday email statement. The voluntary buyout package includes a severance based on years of service and the applicable […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Hanford Boss Declines to Provide COVID-19 Details
The Department of Energy’s manager for the Hanford Site declined Wednesday to say how many employees have tested positive for the coronavirus so far this year at the former plutonium production complex in Washington state. “I report those numbers through headquarters now, and there is a more formal reporting process at the headquarters level,” in […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Pentagon Appoints Ex-NNSA Administrator Gordon-Hagerty to Advisory Board
A little over a month after the secretary of energy demanded her resignation as head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Donald Trump administration welcomed Lisa Gordon-Hagerty back into the fold, appointing her to a Pentagon advisory board. The Department of Defense announced Wednesday that Gordon-Hagerty will join its Defense Policy Board, potentially giving […]