Vol. 5, No. 60 Another Employee at WIPP Tests Positive for COVID-19
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Revised DOE Order Scales Back Central Oversight of DNFSB Access to Site Personnel
In a revised order, the Department of Energy has relaxed the firewall it attempted to erect between personnel at nuclear-weapon sites and the federal agency responsible for sniffing out potential threats to public safety from those operations. The Energy Department shared a draft of the revised Order 140.1 with the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board […]
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Decommissioning
Set of 10 Buildings Start to Come Down at Santa Susana ETEC Site in California
The Energy Department said this week that demolition of 10 buildings is underway at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Ventura County, Calif. Teardown of a guard station marks the start of demolition of 10 deteriorating buildings at the Radioactive Materials Handling Facility (RMHF) complex agreed to in May by DOE and the state of […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Energy Dept. Cleanup Office Hiring Procurement Specialists
The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management plans to beef up its procurement staff to evaluate contract proposals. The nuclear cleanup office said in a July 16 press release it is launching an “acquisition corps” to increase its talent pool of procurement specialists at field sites and the Cincinnati-based Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC). […]
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National Laboratories
Lawyers Post Ex-LANL Physicist’s Application to Chinese Talent Program in Arguing Against Prison
The lawyer for a disgraced former Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist who pleaded guilty to lying about his involvement with a Chinese talent-recruiting program said his client should not be sentenced to prison on the technical grounds that his deception did not amount to perjury, which under federal sentencing guidelines could carry harsher penalties than […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Orano VP Becomes Chief Commercial Officer
Orano TN said Wednesday it has promoted a vice president to the newly established position of chief commercial officer. Roger Maggi assumed the role this month after more than two years as vice president for aging management systems at the nuclear logistics subsidiary of Orano USA, according to his LinkedIn profile. “I want to thank […]