Vol. 2, No. 26 Hanford Worker Safety Trial Delayed Again
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP Operator Earns $11.3M in Fees for FY16
The management and operations contractor for the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico earned $11.3 million in award fees for fiscal 2016 – 84 percent of the total available $13.5 million. The majority of the money awarded to Nuclear… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Washington State Takes Legal Action After Hanford Tunnel Breach
The Washington state Department of Ecology took legal action against the Department of Energy Wednesday evening over the collapse of part of a nuclear waste tunnel discovered at the Hanford Site’s Plutonium Uranium Extraction (PUREX) Plant the day before. As… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as […]
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Budget & Policy
Elbridge Colby Appointed as Strategy and Force Development DASD
The Pentagon said Wednesday that Elbridge Colby has been appointed deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development. Colby has been working as a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a bipartisan think tank focusing on… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP Waste Database Back Online
The Energy Department has relaunched a database that lets the public see what kind of nuclear waste the agency is burying at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico, and when. The Waste Data System/WIPP Waste Information System went live again recently… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Perma-Fix Revenue Up, Losses Down for 1Q
Nuclear remediation and waste treatment provider Perma-Fix Environmental Services on Wednesday reported improvements in both revenue and operating loss for the first quarter of 2017. The Atlanta-based company brought in $12.7 million in revenue for the three months… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]