Vol. 5, No. 64 Expect Portsmouth Services Solicitation Soon, DOE Says
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High-Level & Tank Waste
SRS Moves Pilot Shipment of Wastewater Under New High-level Waste Policy
The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina has completed its 8-gallon pilot shipment of wastewater to a private disposal site in West Texas under the agency’s new interpretation of high-level waste. The shipment from the Savannah River Defense Waste Processing Facility to Waste Control Specialists (WCS) in Andrew County, Texas, concluded Tuesday, […]
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Transuranic Waste
2020 Not Going Well for WIPP Shipments Either
Most Americans don’t like the way 2020 is playing out, at least if social media posts are any guide, and the first eight months of the year have not gone well for productivity at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. There have been 121 shipments from Jan. 1 through Aug. […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
LANL Had a Couple New COVID Cases Last Week
The Los Alamos National Laboratory confirmed a pair of COVID-19 cases among its workforce last week, during which the lab performed nearly 400 tests for the viral disease, a spokesperson said late Friday. That brings the total number of confirmed cases at the lab since the start of the outbreak to 59, the spokesperson for […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Amentum Acquiring DynCorp
Amentum Holdings agreed to acquire DynCorp International in a deal that would broaden its defense services business into aviation and logistics support. Terms of the pending transaction, which is slated to close in the fourth quarter of 2020 subject to regulatory approvals, were not disclosed. Amentum is acquiring DynCorp from the investment firm Cerberus Capital Management, which acquired […]