Vol. 7, No. 68

Budget & Policy

Nevada’s Cortez Masto clings to Senate seat

As Nevada over the weekend counted the final ballots from last week’s midterm elections, the state’s incumbent senior senator, a staunch opponent of a national nuclear waste repository there, managed to hold onto her seat, state election stewards reported. Although she trailed former state attorney general Adam Laxalt (R) heading into the weekend, Catherine Cortez […]
  • Transuranic Waste

    Bechtel-led Salado starts WIPP transition, reveals management team

    With both bid protests now rejected by the Government Accountability Office, a Bechtel affiliate said Friday it is starting its 90-day transition to take over operation of the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. Tularosa Basin Range Services doing business as Salado Isolation Mining Contractors, and headed by Ken Harrawood, said […]

  • Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle

    Centrus nabs big HALEU production contract

    The Department of Energy awarded a subsidiary of Centrus Energy Corp., Bethesda, Md., a potentially 10-year contract to operate the company’s own uranium enrichment centrifuge at the Portsmouth site near Piketon, Ohio. DOE did not disclose the total value of the HALEU Demonstration Cascade Completion and HALEU Production contract in its award announcement on Thursday. […]

  • Plutonium Pit Production

    Tune-ups for ventilation systems at LANL plutonium facility after failures

    Engineers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory continue to upgrade the ventilation system at the plutonium pit production facility after two separate incidents where the system failed to blow contaminated air away from clean rooms where employees were working.  The most recent failure occurred on Aug. 22, when ventilation in the Plutonium Facility, called PF-4, […]

  • Budget & Policy

    This week

    Here are some events related to defense and civilian nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking this week. November 14-18: Conference. The American Nuclear Society kicks off its annual winter meeting in Phoenix, Ariz., with opening plenary session starting at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time. Virtual access available. 14: Meeting: The Savannah River Site Citizens Advisory […]

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