Vol. 7, No. 64

High-Level & Tank Waste

DOE could award Big Hanford, Portsmouth contracts by early 2023

Two megadollar Department of Energy nuclear cleanup contracts, together potentially worth more than $50 billion, could be awarded by early 2023, a top Office of Environmental Management procurement executive told a gathering in Santa Fe, N.M., Wednesday. The Integrated Tank Disposition Contract for the Hanford Site in Washington state and the Decontamination and Decommissioning Contract […]
  • Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad

    Despite Russia, Congress, Biden admin still doesn’t want SLCM-N, Pentagon official says

    ARLIGNTON, VA — Though some in the U.S. government feel Russia will rely increasingly on non-conventional and nuclear arms, including tactical nuclear weapons, that does not make a case for continuing development of a low-yield, sea-launched nuclear cruise missile, a Pentagon official said here Wednesday. The sea-launched nuclear cruise missile (SLCM-N), with its W80-4 variant […]

  • Decommissioning

    PG&E seeking federal bailout for Diablo Canyon

    The owner of California’ last operating nuclear power plant last week bid for a chunk of federal bailout cash to help the facility’s twin reactors running, a utility spokesperson said Wednesday. Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) on Friday applied for a portion of the $6 billion in civilian nuclear power credits administered by the federal […]

  • Advanced Nuclear & SMRs

    Confusion remains over Justice40, DOE bosses acknowledge

    More than a year after President Joe Biden announced the effort, much of the Department of Energy’s weapons complex is struggling to understand the particulars of the Justice40 Initiative if comments Wednesday by nuclear cleanup advisory board chairs are any indication. In broad terms, Justice40 was set up by Biden’s July 2021 Executive Order 14008, […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Tighe is new president, CEO at CNS

    Richard Tighe will be the president and chief executive officer of the Bectel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security, prime contractor of the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., the company announced Wednesday. Tighe replaces Bill Tindall, who retired in July. Gene Sievers, Gene Sievers, site manager for Y-12, […]

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