Vol. 5, No. 54

Budget & Policy

House NDAA Amendments Set Stage for Nuclear Weapons Debates With Senate

The House and Senate are set for a bicameral conference debate about federal nuclear weapons policy, after the lower chamber on Monday approved legislative language that would prohibit nuclear tests and put the secretary of energy on the Nuclear Weapons Council. Both provisions were amendments to the House’s annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which […]
  • Contracts & Procurement

    Oak Ridge Cleanup Contractor Gets 2-Year Extension

    The Energy Department has agreed to a contract extension lasting as long as two years for the incumbent remediation vendor at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee. The DOE Office of Environmental Management announced Monday it will exercise a one-year extension to keep URS/CH2M Hill Oak Ridge (UCOR) on the job thorough July 2021. That […]

  • Vitrification & Grout

    Energy Dept. to Extend Relationship With Atkins, Catholic University for Hanford Vitrification Research

    The Energy Department plans to extend a sole-source contract with Atkins for research on vitrification at the Waste Treatment Plant being built at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The DOE Office of River Protection at Hanford said in July 14 procurement notice it intends to keep using the SNC-Lavalin Group subsidiary for testing of […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    Bruce Blair, Washington Disarmament Dean, Dies Suddenly After Illness

    Bruce Blair, the missileer turned nonproliferation scholar and activist, died Sunday following a sudden illness, Global Zero, the advocacy organization he co-founded in 2007, announced Monday.  The Global Zero statement did not specify the cause of death, nor identify any survivors for Blair — a prolific writer and advocate for nuclear arms-minimization who often warned […]

  • Stockpile Stewardship

    Air Force General is New Stockpile Chief at NNSA

    Air Force Brig. Gen. Stacy Jo Huser has joined the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) as principal assistant deputy administrator for military application in the Office of Defense Programs, where she will oversee weapons modernization and testing, and serve as the military’s point of contact for these civilian-run programs. Huser will run “stockpile management activities, […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Newhouse Facing Multiple Challengers in House Primary

    The congressman representing the district surrounding the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state is facing off with five challengers in an Aug. 4 primary for which voting by mail has already started. Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) has represented the 4th Congressional District in central Washington since January 2015. As a member of House Appropriations […]

  • Commercial Low-Level Waste

    Low-Level Waste Being Transported to Tennessee After Railcar Fire

    Low-level radioactive waste that was being carried in a railcar that caught fire in June near Chicago is now being transported by truck to Tennessee, according to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA). Transport of 42 intermodal containers started last week and is expected to wrap up this week, IEMA spokeswoman Rebecca Clark said by […]

  • Commercial Low-Level Waste

    NRC Extends Comment Period on Very Low-Level Waste Disposal Rule

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Tuesday said it would give stakeholders another three months to comment on a potential update to rules for disposal of very low-level radioactive waste. The new deadline to submit input on the proposed interpretive rule is Oct. 21, according to a tweet from the federal agency. The previous deadline had […]

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