Vol. 5, No. 52 House to Start Legislating Stop-Gap 2021 Budget Bill Today
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
NM Weapons Labs Confirmed Four New COVID-19 Cases Last Week
The Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories combined picked up less than a handful of new confirmed COVID-19 cases last week, the New Mexico nuke sites reported late last week after the ExchangeMonitor’s weekly deadline. Sandia’s cumulative case count rose to 63 from 60, with all three new cases logged at the lab network’s main […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE Discusses Ordering Agreements for Waste Treatment
The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management is looking for a group of qualified vendors to compete for orders for nationwide waste treatment services. In a recently published batch of questions and answers, the Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center, said it is not issuing an indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract for nationwide treatment services for mixed and […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Upon Further Review, DOE Changes Point Person for DNFSB Order Talks
The top brass at the Energy Department has decided not to have a potential member of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) lead its discussions about communications between the agency and the safety watchdog. In a Sept. 15, letter to the now former DNFSB Chairman Bruce Hamilton, Deputy Secretary of Energy Mark Menezes said […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DNFSB Adopts COVID-19 Plan for On-site Operations
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) has endorsed a “Pandemic Response and Recovery Plan” that spells out a strategy for a gradual return to on-site work at its Washington, D.C., headquarters and elsewhere. Since mid-March the DNFSB and its roughly 100-member staff have worked in a “maximum telework posture” due to the COVID-19 pandemic, […]