Vol. 9, No. 83 BWXT-led winner of Hanford liquid waste contract withdraws appeals court action
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Cleanup & Remediation
Honeywell exec elected new EFCOG board chair
The Energy Facility Contractors Group last week elected Honeywell International vice president David (DJ) Johnson chair of the group’s board of directors, according to a press release. Johnson will succeed Michael Lempke of Huntington Ingalls. The Energy Facility Contractors Group (EFCOG) also elected Mark Whitney, the president of Amentum’s national security group, its vice chair […]
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Budget & Policy
Compromise California budget bill for 2025 has $400 million more for Diablo Canyon
Pacific Gas & Electric would get $400 million more to help keep California’s last nuclear power plant open for another five years, if a state budget bill unveiled over the weekend becomes law. In a reversal for legislative leaders who opposed the funding as recently as June, the compromise spending bill would allow California to […]
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International
Former Iran task force leader says Iran will threaten nukes the longer war goes on in Gaza
Keeping close to, but not crossing, the threshold of building nuclear weapons gives Iran another way of threatening adversaries, including Israel, a Middle East scholar said Monday at an anti-nuclear event. Iran “is getting advantages from having this program that everyone is very afraid of,” Barbara Slavin, distinguished fellow at the Stimson Center think tank […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Current providers Fluor-BWXT, Mid-America win bulk of DOE fee
The lame duck cleanup contractor at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio and the provider of depleted uranium hexafluoride services there and at the Paducah Site in Kentucky each collected most of the available fee for the opening four months of fiscal 2024, DOE said Tuesday. In a press release, DOE’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project […]