Vol. 5, No. 7 Brouillette to Trim DOE Policy Shop, Add New Nuke Security Adviser
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Cleanup & Remediation
AECOM to Close Sale of Government-Contracting Biz Within Days
International engineering and construction provider AECOM could complete the $2.4 billion sale of its government contracting division to a joint venture of two New York investment firms within days, a company official said Tuesday in Alexandria, Va. Eric Knox, an AECOM vice president for strategic development for nuclear and environment, cited the impending change during […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
No Request for Yucca Mountain in Next White House Budget: Experts
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The White House does not plan to request any funding in fiscal 2021 for licensing the nuclear waste repository under Yucca Mountain, Nev., issue experts said at an industry conference here Tuesday. That would reverse the Trump administration’s efforts in its last three budget proposals to persuade Congress to appropriate money to […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
DOE Starts ‘Small’ Used-Fuel Reprocessing Effort
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Energy Department’s Office of Nuclear Energy has begun a limited program to explore opportunities for recycling used nuclear fuel, a senior official said Tuesday. “We are starting a small effort to look at some of these options, but it’s early in development and there’s no clear outcome on where it’s going […]
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Budget & Policy
New Mexico Lawmakers Call on DOE to ‘Suspend’ Order 140.1
New Mexico’s entire congressional delegation this month called on the Department of Energy to suspend a controversial order that the federal Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) says has curtailed its access to nuclear-weapon sites. The Energy Department should lift the almost 2-year-old Order 140.1 to comply with recent changes to federal law that require […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Lockheed Martin Ends Strong 2019 On High Note
Lockheed Martin on Tuesday reported a strong close to its 2019 fiscal year with double-digit top and bottom line growth, and the company expects further gains in 2020. Net income in the fourth quarter jumped 15% to $1.5 billion, $5.29 earnings per share (EPS), from $1.3 billion ($4.39 EPS) a year ago, comfortably above consensus estimates […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Appeals Court Hears Arguments on $8.1M Award to Former Hanford Contractor Employee
The Washington state Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday on a lower court’s $8.1 million award in 2017 to a former employee of Energy Department contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA) at the Hanford Site. The support services vendor is asking Division III of the appeals court to reverse the award against it and former vice […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Four Rivers Garners 67% of Potential Fee for Paducah Remediation
Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership, the Jacobs-led deactivation and cleanup contractor at the Energy Department’s Paducah Site in Kentucky, earned 67% of its potential fee for work during fiscal 2019, or $6.97 million of a potential $10.38 million, according to a recent performance scorecard. The vendor pocketed just over $1 million of a possible $2.33 million […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Energy Dept. Should Increase Underground Lab Research on Rad Waste Disposal, Panel Says
The Department of Energy should expand its use of underground research laboratories (URLs) for research on geologic disposal of nuclear waste, including establishing facilities in the United States, a federal panel of experts said in a report Tuesday. The Energy Department has since 2012 participated in research at URLs in Europe and Asia, the Nuclear […]