Vol. 5, No. 92

Contracts & Procurement

AECOM Might Sell Another Biz Unit Soon

Los Angeles-based AECOM, which earlier this year sold off its government contracting business for nuclear cleanup, might be close to another nuclear-related spinoff, a source said Wednesday. The multinational engineering, design and construction company could divest its energy business, possibly within days, the source said, citing industry rumors and AECOM’s publicly-stated intent to sell certain […]
  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    Part 61 Report to be Released End of November, Combined With GTCC Rule

    Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff plan to combine the “Part 61” low-level radioactive waste rulemaking and the Greater-Than-Class C rulemaking for efficiency, a senior official said Wednesday. The highly anticipated NRC report will be released to the public by the end of November, Patricia Holahan, director of the NRC’s Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and Waste […]

  • National Laboratories

    Vendor Again Connected With Glovebox Breach at Los Alamos

    Glovebox component vendor Central Research Laboratories, Red Wing, Minn., again popped up in connection with a glovebox breach at the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s PF-4 Plutonium Facility, this time after a close call involving a plutonium machining operator.  On Sept. 23, an “ergonomic” glovebox glove assembly provided by Central Research Laboratories unexpectedly disconnected from the […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Pandemic Hasn’t Sidelined EM Procurement, Officials Say

    While some work at the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management is being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, contract procurement has hardly missed a beat, officials told an online industry conference this week. Thus far in 2020 there have been “almost no drop offs [and] ironically enough, almost some acceleration” in contract solicitations and […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Final RFP Hits the Streets for Portsmouth Infrastructure Services

    The Department of Energy is giving potential bidders until Dec. 1 to respond to a final request for proposals for a new five-year infrastructure support services contract at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio. The DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) issued the request for proposals (RFP) notice Tuesday. The DOE nuclear cleanup branch said in […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    CORRECTION

    A story in Wednesday’s Weapons Complex Morning Briefing (“NRC to Address COVID-19 Exemptions Moving Forward”) should have said staff members will discuss work hours, security inspection exemptions and other pandemic-related topics at the Thursday meeting. No commissioners will be involved.

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