Vol. 5, No. 55 Continuing Resolution Would Stretch 2020 Budgets to Dec. 11
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Cleanup & Remediation
Feds Could Award SRS Security Contract in Coming Months
Expect the Department of Energy to issue the long-anticipated paramilitary security contract for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina within the next few months, a federal official said Monday. Michael Budney, the head of the department’s Savannah River Site’s (SRS) operations office, made the assessment during Monday’s online meeting of the Savannah River Site’s […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Dabbar Heading to SRS for Salt Waste Ribbon Cutting; Virus Protocols Remaining Strict
The level of coronavirus infections in South Carolina is still high enough to keep the Department of Energy from moving any closer to pre-COVID-19 operations at the Savannah River Site, a senior site official said Monday. The DOE complex next to the Georgia line will probably stay in Phase 1 of the agency’s COVID-19 remobilization […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Ohio Commission Orders FirstEnergy to Explain Alleged Bribery Scheme by End of Month
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio commission has launched a probe into whether the state’s largest electric utility used ratepayer money to help finance a scheme to elect Ohio Rep. Larry Householder as the state’s house speaker in order to pass a bill that helped bail out two of its subsidiaries. In an order filed […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Public Comment Period for New Mexico Holtec Site Ends Today
Public Comment Period for New Mexico Holtec Site Ends Today The public comment period on Holtec International’s application to build an interim storage facility for spent radioactive waste in southeastern New Mexico will close at the end of the day, despite pleas from critics to wait until the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. Originally scheduled […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Energy Department IG Faults Two Hanford Contractors on Respirator Upkeep
The Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General says two major contractors at the Hanford Site in Washington State don’t always maintain respirators in accordance with government requirements. The report said more attention to respiratory equipment is needed by Jacobs subsidiary, CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Co., and Amentum-led Washington River Protection Solutions. CH2M is responsible […]
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Defense & Military
Nuke Brain-Drain in Military ‘Bottomed Out,’ ‘Turned the Corner,’ LLNL Resident Scholar Says
A nuclear brain-drain in the military has shown signs of reversing course in the decade-plus since the mistaken delivery of nuclear-armed cruise missiles to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, the head of the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Laboratory’s Center for Global Security Research said Monday. “My sense of it is that that bottomed out,” Brad […]