Vol. 4, No. 34

Plutonium Pit Production

Judge Stays MOX Plant Lawsuit as Settlement Nears

A federal judge on Monday stayed the almost 3-year old lawsuit filed by MOX Services against the National Nuclear Security Administration after the parties announced they were close to settling the $200-million-plus case. “After mediation, the parties have come to an agreement in principle on proposed settlement terms which, if approved, would resolve this consolidated […]
  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Hanford Support Services Provider, DOE Drop Contract Dispute Complaint

    Mission Support Alliance (MSA), the support services provider for the Hanford Site in Washington state, has dropped a contract dispute complaint against the Department of Energy. The chair of the U.S. Civilian Board of Contract Appeals on June 19 dismissed MSA’s case against the Energy Department with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled at a […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    NNSA Names New Chief of Staff

    Doug Fremont is the new chief of staff for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), an agency spokesperson said Monday. He succeeds William “Ike” White, who left to work at the Department of Energy’s Cold War nuclear-weapon cleanup program. Fremont is the former security chief for the semiautonomous DOE nuclear-weapons agency. He was removed from […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Leaky Hydrogen Fluoride System at 9212 Reactivated This Month

    The prime contractor for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12 National Security Complex continued to grapple with a fix for a hydrogen fluoride system until earlier this month — well after an April leak that prompted an evacuation of the agency’s main uranium processing building.  The system in Building 9212 “returned to operation on Monday, […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Bechtel, Deep Isolation Seal Cooperation Agreement

    One of the Department of Energy’s major contractors has sealed a cooperative agreement with a company offering a “drillhole” method for disposal of nuclear waste. Under the memorandum of agreement announced Monday, Bechtel will offer project management, business, and other support to assist Deep Isolation in selling its technology to the Energy Department and other […]

  • Decommissioning

    Arkansas Releases SEFOR Site for Unrestricted Use

    The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) this month formally determined that the site of the now-decommissioned Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor (SEFOR) can be released for unrestricted use. Contractor EnergySolutions completed decommissioning the facility in April. While the University of Arkansas owns the reactor site, the work was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. […]

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