Vol. 7, No. 62

Contracts & Procurement

Protests of Big NNSA Production Sites Contract Dismissed as Agency Plans ‘Corrective Action’

The National Nuclear Security Administration plans to address a perceived conflict of interest, raised by a Bechtel National-led team, about the agency’s November award of a potentially decade-long sites-management contract to a Fluor-led team, according to a letter from the Government Accountability Office. On Friday, at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) request, a source […]
  • Contracts & Procurement

    New Contracts Expected for WIPP, Hanford in 2022

    The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management plans to award new contracts this year at the Hanford Site in Washington state, the Moab uranium tailings site in Utah and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, the office said in its recent list of 2022 priorities. The biggest prize is the potential $45-billion, […]

  • Budget & Policy

    DNFSB Staff Can Stick With Telecommute a While Longer

    Most staffers with the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board don’t need to return to their pre-pandemic workplaces this month, a spokesperson with the federal safety watchdog said Tuesday morning. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) is no longer requiring a return to work on Jan. 24, as earlier scheduled, “but is giving the staff […]

  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    NRC Secretary Vietti-Cook to Retire, Former Deputy Counsel Clark Stepping In

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s chief executive manager is retiring from the agency after nearly 40 years of service, the commission said in a press release last week. Annette Vietti-Cook, who became NRC’s secretary in 1982, is retiring from her role effective this spring, according to a press release dated Jan. 11. Brooke Clark, NRC’s deputy […]

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