Vol. 2, No. 2

Cleanup & Remediation

Costs Rise, State Fines Remain at INL Waste Treatment Unit

The Energy Department has to date spent about $785 million on its Integrated Waste Treatment Unit at the Idaho National Laboratory, a DOE spokeswoman said, a tally that is more than $200 million over budget. The system’s budget was capped at $571 million in 2010, while a 2006 estimate had said the facility — designed […]
  • Transuranic Waste

    Carswell Takes No. 2 DOE Job at WIPP

    Jeffrey Carswell has been promoted to deputy manager of the Energy Department’s Carlsbad Field Office in New Mexico, putting an end to talk that one of the leading figures in the agency’s years-long drive to reopen the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) was headed up the road to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Carswell — one […]

  • Vitrification & Grout

    Savannah River Saltstone Disposal Unit Passes Leak Test

    A waste disposal project at the Savannah River Site took another step forward recently when the facility’s liquid waste contractor conducted a successful leak tightness test for Saltstone Disposal Unit 6 (SDU 6). SDU 6 is the first 30-million gallon, megavolume salt waste disposal unit constructed at the Department of Energy site in South Carolina. Once complete, […]

  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    84 of 99 U.S. Nuclear Plants Compliant on Post-Fukushima Safety Gear

    Eighty-four of the 99 Nuclear Regulatory Commission-licensed nuclear plants are now in compliance with new emergency response safety equipment orders the agency has implemented through its Fukushima Lessons Learned initiative, according to NRC spokesman Scott Burnell. Compliance is up from 70 percent in September, when the agency explained in documents that it anticipated the American nuclear fleet […]

  • International

    GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Wins Oskarshamn Contract

    GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy said Tuesday it has won a three-year contract to support disassembly of two reactors at Sweden’s Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant. The work, expected to start in January and wrap up by the end of 2019, involves segmentation of the reactor pressure vessel internals for reactor Units 1 and 2 at the plant […]

  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    NRC Issues White Finding at Diablo Canyon

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Dec. 29 issued a white inspection finding at the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, confirming that operator Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) failed to “adequately maintain the (plant’s) emergency core cooling system.” Located about 12 miles southwest of San Luis Obispo, Diablo Canyon is the last operating nuclear plant in California […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    MOX Contractor Seeking HVAC Ductwork Installation Subcontractor

    The contractor managing construction of the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina intends to issue a solicitation for a fixed-price subcontract to install HVAC ductwork and supports for the MOX project. CB&I AREVA MOX Services said in a Dec. 28 presolicitation notice that the […]

  • National Laboratories

    DOE EA: Livermore Emergency Management Program Weak in Communications

    The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California should enhance its communications and information management processes to enhance emergency management, the Department of Energy’s Office of Enterprise Assessments (EA) found in a newly released report. EA assessed the lab’s program with test scenarios for personnel of LLNL managing contractor Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS). One […]

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