Vol. 5, No. 22

National Laboratories

No Known COVID-19 Cases at Livermore After Employee Tested Negative

There are no known cases of COVID-19 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory after an employee who reported exposure to the novel coronavirus tested negative for the disease, a lab spokesperson said Wednesday. “We’ve had no cases, confirmed or presumptive,” the spokesperson wrote in an email Wednesday evening. Livermore managers became aware last week of […]
  • Cleanup & Remediation

    House Appropriators Repeat it for White: EM Budget Cuts Not Happening

    House appropriators got their first crack at acting Environmental Management head Ike White on Wednesday, when they promised the interim cleanup manager that proposed cuts to legacy nuclear waste cleanup will not stand — especially not at the Hanford Site. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]

  • Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad

    LANL Pit Plant Would Generate Much Less Transuranic Waste Than Savannah River Site, NNSA Estimates

    A facility planned for the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico could produce more nuclear-warhead cores while generating less transuranic waste than the plutonium pit factory planned at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, according to environmental documents published this year by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The agency aims to manufacture […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Energy Dept. No Longer Publishing Cleanup Procurement Schedules

    PHOENIX — The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) is no longer producing a public roundup of solicitation timelines for cleanup jobs within the nuclear weapons complex, a procurement official said here Tuesday. “We no longer have… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Decommissioning

    Demolition of Portsmouth Process Building to Start This Year

    PHOENIX — Demolition of the X-326 Process Building at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio should begin this fall, managers said here Wednesday. Cleanup contractor Fluor-BWXT finished deactivating the facility, disconnecting the utilities… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Bid Deadline Extended for Paducah Site Services Contract

    Interested bidders for the Energy Department’s potential five-year, $250-million support services contract at the Paducah Site in Kentucky have received an additional two weeks to submit a proposal. The agency announced the delayed deadline, from March 19 to… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Decommissioning

    New Radiation Monitors Deployed at SONGS

    Radiation monitors for the public went online Tuesday at the retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), majority owner Southern California Edison announced Tuesday. Three gamma radiation monitors were installed on the San Diego County property in response… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    Correction

    An article in the Wednesday edition of Weapons Complex Morning Briefing should have said the Energy Department expects within weeks to issue a draft request for proposals for management of the Savannah River National Laboratory. SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]

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