Vol. 7, No. 59

Contracts & Procurement

DOE advises bidders to team up in pursuit of small biz, set-aside cleanup projects

Small businesses on the hunt for a share of assorted nationwide nuclear cleanup work at government sites are encouraged to team up by the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management. “DOE is issuing this notification to encourage offerors to consider the establishment of contractor teaming arrangements,” in pursuit of small business set-aside awards for […]
  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    Hanford tank contractor seeks sub to help with cesium removal quality

    Amentum-led Washington River Protection Solutions is seeking a subcontractor to help ensure the quality of its cesium-removal system for low-level radioactive tank waste at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state. Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) is looking for a subcontractor to help with the “procurement, fabrication, and testing of replacement ion exchange […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Minerals company joins Texas in defending right to sue NRC over interim storage site

    A Texas company that owns land in the state’s oil-rich Permian Basin told a federal court Monday that, despite claims by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the company had the right to sue the agency over an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel proposed for the region, court documents show. Fasken Land and Minerals, LLC, […]

  • Innovation & Infrastructure

    NorthStar wraps constructions on medical isotope factory in Wisconsin

    NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, Beloit, Wis., finished building a factory to produce, without the use of highly enriched uranium, the medically usable isotope Molybdenum-99, the National Nuclear Security Administration said Monday.  NorthStar is one of several U.S. companies that have gotten money from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to expand domestic production of the isotope, […]

  • International

    China ramped up production of nukes in 2021, Pentagon says

    China will “basically complete modernization” of its military capabilities by 2035, by which time it may have a stockpile of 1,500 nuclear warheads, the Pentagon said in a report released Tuesday. The latest congressionally mandated “China Military Power” report covers developments through the end of 2021. In it, the Pentagon said that China likely accelerated […]

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