Vol. 3, No. 52 DOE Cleanup Nominee Automatically Advances From Armed Services Committee
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Non-Proliferation
Senate Committee Approves NNSA Nonproliferation Nominee
The Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday approved the White House’s nominee to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration’s roughly $2-billion-a-year nuclear nonproliferation branch. The Donald Trump administration nominated Brent Park, an associate director and physicist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, on Feb. 13. It took the committee 21 days and one […]
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Contracts & Procurement
DOE Warns of Potential Conflicts on Hanford Essential Services Contract
Due to potential conflicts of interest, the U.S. Energy Department has determined potential bidders for the $4 billion Hanford Mission Essential Service Contract should not be part of five other key contracts at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The Energy Department issued a draft request for proposals for the potential 10-year contract in November, […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
New Mexico Lawmakers Want More Time to Study Spent Fuel Storage Plan
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission should extend its public scoping comment period on a proposed spent reactor fuel storage facility in New Mexico to allow the state’s Legislature and public agencies to review and comment on the project, New Mexico lawmakers said recently. In a series of identical Feb. 27 letters, the NRC told the […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
South Carolina Combines $100M Plutonium Lawsuits Against DOE
Following the advice of a U.S. Court of Federal Claims (CFC) judge, the state of South Carolina this week dismissed one of its two $100 million lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Energy, and amended the other to reflect a $200 million total demand. Both suits, and a third case in the U.S. District Court […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
NNSA Denies Trying to Illegally Stall MOX Lawsuit
The Department of Energy denied late Monday it illegally stalled a lawsuit filed by contractor CB&I AREVA MOX Services, which seeks about $200 million in fees and damages for its customer’s alleged mismanagement of a multibillion-dollar nuclear nonproliferation contract. In a court filing last month, MOX Services said DOE’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
States Demur on Hosting Spent Fuel Storage, Survey Shows
Only one of 13 states surveyed recently showed any interest in becoming home to an interim or long-term repository for spent fuel from U.S. commercial nuclear power reactors. The Natural Resources Defense Council sent a survey on nuclear waste issues to government officials in all 48 states in the continental U.S. Thirteen states responded in […]