Vol. 5, No. 10

Innovation & Infrastructure

Y-12 Substation Completed

The power substation that will route electricity to the Uranium Processing Facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is finished, the National Nuclear Security Administration said. The Tennessee Valley Authority designed and built the $60 million substation, the semiautonomous Department of Energy nuclear weapons agency wrote in a press release on Monday.  Aspects of the substation have […]
  • Contracts & Procurement

    Centerra Picks Up 97% Fee for SRS Security in Latter Half of Fiscal 2019

    Paramilitary security contractor Centerra won 97% or about $3.17 million out of a potential $3.26 million fee for protecting the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina during the second half of fiscal 2019, which ended Sept. 30. That’s according to a scorecard released by DOE over the winter holidays for Centerra-Savannah River Site. […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Disposal Startup Deep Isolation Seeks Venture Round

    Deep Isolation, a nuclear waste disposal startup, said Tuesday it wants to raise $10 million to $15 million in venture capital investment The company is developing a borehole disposal concept, in which fuel assemblies containing spent fuel rods are placed in a canister and buried some 2,000 feet below the surface in a very narrow, […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Albright Named Interim CEO of Nuclear Council After Blee’s Death

    Bud Albright, who chairs the U.S. Nuclear Industry Council, will step in as interim president and CEO of the organization following the Dec. 29 death of David Blee. The Nuclear Industry Council said Monday that the board of directors selected Albright, an undersecretary of energy for former President George W. Bush, as interim leader pending […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Correction

    Contractor URS/CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) won 97% or almost $20.4 million out of a potential $21 million fee for the period from April 1 through Sept. 30, 2019. The initial version of the article in the Monday Weapons Complex Morning Briefing listed only the subjective part of the Energy Department fee award.

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