Vol. 5, No. 14 Hanford Building Disinfected; DOE Limits Travel to ‘Mission-Critical’ Trips
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Lockheed Martin Selects New CEO
James Taiclet will become president and chief executive officer of aerospace and defense titan Lockheed Martin, of Bethesda, Md., effective June 15. He will succeed Marillyn Hewson, who has led the company since 2013, according to a Monday press release. Taiclet, who came up in the defense industry through Pratt & Whitney and was later […]
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Naval Nuclear Propulsion
Fluor Nabs $1.8 Billion Mod For More Naval Lab Work
Naval Sea Systems Command on Thursday awarded Fluor Marine Propulsion a $1.776 billion modification for naval nuclear propulsion work at the Naval Nuclear Laboratory. Work will be split between Schenectady, N.Y. (52%), Pittsburgh (31%), Idaho Falls, Idaho (11%), and Charleston, S.C. (6%). The Navy did not disclose how long the contract runs through or what additional […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
NNSA Soliciting Bids for Follow-On LEU Storage Contracts
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is soliciting bids for a potential five-year contract, encompasssing a one-year base and four single-year options, to store low-enriched uranium required for tritium production. The semiautonomous Department of Energy branch, civilian steward of the U.S. nuclear weapon stockpile, released the solicitation Thursday. The agency wants new deals in place […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Idaho Fines Against DOE Approach $7.8 Million
Idaho continues to assess $6,000 in daily penalties against the Department of Energy for failure to treat 900,000 gallons of sodium-bearing liquid radioactive waste at the Idaho National Laboratory, and the total is approaching $7.8 million, a state official said last week. The penalties will continue until the lab’s the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
Judge Sustains Federal Lawsuit Against MOX Contractors
A federal judge last week rejected a request to dismiss a February 2019 fraud lawsuit against a former contractor and subcontractor for the Department of Energy’s never-completed plutonium recycling plant at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Project prime MOX Services and subcontractor Wise Services failed to explain why the case should be thrown […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Pennsylvania Nuclear Power Plant to Remain Open
Energy Harbor Corp. on Friday said it had reversed its decision to retire the two reactors at its Beaver Valley Power Station in Pennsylvania. The announcement came just weeks after the former FirstEnergy Solutions emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a new name and no longer owned by FirstEnergy Corp. Management notified regional power transmission […]