Vol. 7, No. 37

Transuranic Waste

National TRU Solutions protests DOE award of WIPP prime contract to Bechtel

National TRU Solutions, a joint venture evidently led by Huntington Ingalls Industries, filed a bid protest Tuesday challenging the Department of Energy’s selection of a Bechtel entity for a contract worth up to $3 billion to operate the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. A notice of the TRU Solutions bid protest is posted […]
  • Decommissioning

    Major SONGS reactor parts headed to disposal facility

    The utility company in charge of decommissioning a California nuclear power plant is preparing to ship some heavy reactor parts out of state to a low-level disposal facility, according to a recent press release. The reactor pressure vessel head of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s (SONGS) Unit 2 reactor “will be leaving the site soon,” […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Fluor-BWXT takes home 75% of potential fee for recent Portsmouth remediation

    Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth earned 75% of its total potential fee and about 82% of its subjective fee from the Department of Energy for its cleanup work at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio for the 12-month period ended March 28, according to a just-released scorecard. Overall, the contractor took home $16.6 million out of a potential $22.1 […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    Most Los Alamos TRU waste not yet ready for WIPP shipment

    The inventory of defense-related transuranic waste at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico amounts to more than 3,300 containers, but most are not “ready to ship” to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the Department of Energy’s Carlsbad Field Office manager said last week. While the DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) has 2,273 […]

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