Vol. 5, No. 41 Hanford, Savannah River Report New COVID-19 Cases
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Budget & Policy
Public Hearing Today on Fiscal 2022 Budget Priorities for Hanford
A virtual public meeting on fiscal 2022 budget priorities for the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state is scheduled for 3 p.m. Pacific time today. The meeting is being organized by the three signatories to the 1989 Tri-Party Agreement that governs… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]
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Budget & Policy
Energy Dept. Changes to Main Nuke Safety Management Reg in ‘Draft Final’ Form
The Department of Energy is close to finalizing revisions to the federal regulation governing nuclear safety management, according to a letter the agency recently sent to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB). The federal government’s independent nuclear health-and-safety watchdog received the draft final document on June 9, DOE said two days afterward in a letter […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Y-12 Employees’ Lawsuit Allege Contractor Shorted Pay for Some Salaried Workers in 2017
Consolidated Nuclear Security in 2017 took a paycheck’s worth of pay from certain employees at Department of Enegy’s Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee, three employees alleged in a federal lawsuit. The short happened after the Bechtel National-led… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Transuranic Waste
DOE Names Permanent Carlsbad Field Office Manager
Reinhard Knerr, a director at the Energy Department’s Portsmouth-Paducah Project Office (PPPO), will in mid-July become the new permanent manager for the agency’s Carlsbad Field Office in New Mexico. Knerr is currently federal project director for conversion… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Budget & Policy
NNSA Staffer Taking Job on Senate Appropriations Panel
Nora Khalil is leaving the National Nuclear Security Administration to become the lead Republican staffer on the Senate Appropriations panel that writes the agency’s annual budget bill each year, a source familiar with the move said. Khalil is now the agency’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
EnergySolutions Aims for 2020 Utah Decision on Depleted Uranium License
EnergySolutions hopes this year to receive a state license to finally begin accepting large amounts of depleted uranium at its radioactive waste disposal facility in Clive, Utah. That would mark the end of a regulatory process that has stretched for more than a… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Strategic Management Solutions Hires Executive VP
Department of Energy contractor Strategic Management Solutions Inc. (SMSI) has hired industry veteran Matthew Nuckols for the newly created position of executive vice president. A civil engineer, Nuckols has 25 years of project and program management experience… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
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