Vol. 6, No. 65

Contracts & Procurement

Debriefs on Big EM Cleanup Awards Expected This Week

This week, the Department of Energy will brief losing bidders about its rationale for awarding multi-billion-dollar nuclear-cleanup contracts to teams led by Amentum and BWX Technologies, a senior industry official said last week at the Radwaste Summit in Summerlin, Nev. The executive made the comments on the sidelines of the annual summit, sponsored by ExchangeMonitor […]
  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Texas State Rep Landgraf Takes Victory Lap on Rad Waste Ban

    Texas has “a strong leg to stand on” in opposing an interim storage facility planned there, according to an op-ed published Sunday by the Texas state lawmaker who sponsored the state’s recently-enacted ban on high-level nuclear-waste storage. With the passage of House Bill 7 in September, the Texas legislature “prevented radioactive waste of decommissioned nuclear […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Through House and Headed to White House, Nuke Credits Intact

    After weeks of intra-party squabbling, a trillion dollar infrastructure package, with nuclear power subsidies intact, made it through the House Friday night and was awaiting President Joe Biden’s signature at deadline. The measure, which passed on a 228-206 vote in the House Friday night, is good news for financially-troubled nuclear plants. The version of the […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Amentum Puts Condon in Blankenhorn’s Old Job

    Bill Condon became the lead for Amentum’s Nuclear & Environment Business, replacing the recently promoted Jim Blankenhorn, and will quarterback the company’s pursuit of Department of Energy defense-nuclear site contracts, the closely held Germantown, Md., group announced. A longtime URS man who remained with the company through the AECOM years, Condon has more than 30 […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    This Week

    Here are some events related to defense and civilian matters that the Exchange Monitor staff is tracking this week: November 9: Virtual event, Hudson Institute. What’s Next for AUKUS? A discussion with Ambassador Sinodinos. 12 p.m. Eastern time with the Australian ambassador. AUKUS us the trilateral partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States […]

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