Vol. 5, No. 89

Cleanup & Remediation

Hanford Site Boss Stresses Ethical Standards

The Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state can use education along with the specter of financial loss in pushing ethical standards for contractors, the site’s local fed said recently.  The DOE has mandated ethics programs for major contractors and this effort is “very similar to a safety program” in that it’s designed to […]
  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Swift & Staley Staying on as Paducah Services Provider

    Kentucky-based Swift & Staley appears to be staying on another 22 months as the infrastructure support services contractor at the Department of Energy’s Paducah Site in Kentucky. The latest summary of major contracts from DOE, dated last Friday, shows Swift & Staley’s term as the services provider at the former gaseous diffusion plant site has […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    EM-2, NNSA Officials Headline Virtual ETEBA Conference

    The No. 2 manager at the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup office will keynote a Tennessee-based organization’s virtual Business Opportunities Conference this morning. Todd Shrader, principal deputy assistant secretary in the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, addresses the Energy, Technology and Environmental Business Association’s gathering at about 10:30 a.m. Eastern time. Shrader is […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    Amid Rumors of Impending Arms Control Deal, Billingslea Set for Talk on China Nukes

    After weeks of reporting that Washington and Moscow might be close to a follow-on deal to or an extension of the landmark New START treaty, President Donald Trump’s lead arms-control negotiator is scheduled for a public talk today about China’s nuclear arsenal. Unless the Trump administration and Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, agree to extend […]

  • Commercial Decommissioning

    Illinois Lawmaker Creates Website to Save Byron Plant

    Republican Illinois State Rep. Tom Demmer, determined to save Exelon’s Byron Generating Station from closure, launched a website last week to gin up support for state subsidies to stop the plant from closing next fall.  Exelon announced plans to close the Byron and Dresden Generating Stations in late August, calling them “uneconomic” and plagued by […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    CORRECTION

    A story in Monday’s Weapons Complex Morning Briefing (“Nun Who Breached Y-12 Perimeter Dies at 84”) should have said that SOC is the physical security provider under Consolidated Nuclear Security’s contract to manage the Pantex Plant and the Y-12 National Security Complex.

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