Vol. 7, No. 80 
Draft RFPs Unveiled for Portsmouth Cleanup, DUF6 Contracts
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Contracts & Procurement
Swift & Staley Remains Paducah Services Provider During Legal Challenge
With litigation on a controversial contract award two years ago still ongoing, the Department of Energy has extended incumbent Swift & Staley as the landlord services provider at the Paducah Site in Kentucky through February, a spokesperson confirmed via email this week. Without the extension, first revealed in a U.S. Court of Federal Claims order, […]
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Budget & Policy
Bobby Rush, House Energy Committee Chair, to Retire
After nearly 30 years in Congress, Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) won’t seek another term in the House, he told local media Monday. Rep. Rush, who was elected to serve Illinois’s 1st congressional district in 1992, won’t run for reelection in the 2022 midterms, he told the Chicago Sun-Times in an interview published Monday. Rush, […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Enviros’ Suit Over TX Interim Storage Pressing Forward in 2022
A lawsuit against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over a proposed Texas interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel sputtered back to life in the early days of 2022, recent court filings show. The suit, filed in February by a coalition of anti-nuclear groups including the Sierra Club, Beyond Nuclear and the Texas-based minerals company Fasken […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Commercial Quantities of Domestic Mo-99 in Late ‘23, NNSA Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration hopes its efforts to boost the domestic industry for Molybdenum-99 will result in commercial-scale availability of the medical isotope a couple years from now, according to an annual nonproliferation report the agency released before the holidays. Under its partnership with four U.S. companies the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) “aims […]