Vol. 5, No. 13 Honeywell Outperformed Internal Expectations in 1Q, but Sees Major COVID-19 Headwinds
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Cleanup & Remediation
Jacobs, AECOM to Report Earnings This Week
Two major engineering and infrastructure companies, one a central player in the Energy Department nuclear cleanup business and another having just exited it, report earnings this week for the first three months of 2020. AECOM, the former parent company of Energy Department contractor Amentum, has scheduled its earnings conference for noon Eastern time Tuesday. Jacobs […]
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National Laboratories
Livermore Tightening On-Site COVID-19 Protocols as Workers Trickle Back
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Department of Energy nuclear-weapon site closest to a major metropolitan area, is preparing for another month of stay-at-home orders in surrounding Alameda County, Calif., which has a high number of COVID-19 cases and deaths. Livemore is still performing only essential national security work and still requires most of its […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NRC Staff Backs Licensing for Second Spent-Fuel Storage Site
Staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has offered initial support for licensing a facility in West Texas for temporary storage of spent fuel from nuclear power plants. The recommendation is included in a draft version of the environmental impact statement for Interim Storage Partners’ planned consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) in Andrews County. The document […]
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Naval Nuclear Propulsion
Senate Armed Services to Hear From Three Pentagon Nominees
The Senate returns to Capitol Hill today, and the Senate Armed Services Committee has scheduled a hearing Thursday to consider the nominations of three Pentagon officials. Ambassador to Norway Kenneth Braithwaite has been nominated to become the next Navy secretary,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as […]
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Transuranic Waste
Feds Renew $14.4M Grant for WIPP-Area Environmental Monitoring by New Mexico State University
The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management is renewing a $14.4 million grant for New Mexico State University to continue environmental monitoring near the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). The Energy Department’s Carlsbad Field Office, which oversees WIPP, announced the five-year financial assistance Thursday to support the NMSU engineering college’s Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring & Research […]
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Budget & Policy
NRC Expedites Review of SHINE Operations Application for Mo-99 Plant
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has knocked a year off its schedule for the review of SHINE Medical Technologies’ license application to operate its medical isotope production plant in Janesville, Wisc. The agency had expected it would need 36 months to complete the technical review after the application was formally accepted in October 2019. The anticipated […]