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- Latest Hanford WTP cost estimate $18.5B, not counting HLW
- Cost continues to rise for most Environmental Management megabuck projects
- NNSA issues RFP for Savannah River Site; pit plant tour set
- Landlord contractor HMIS settles Hanford fire safety overbilling case
- AtkinsRéalis finishes out 2025 on a strong note
- Knerr joins Navarro as vice president of tech services
- Kiewit Nuclear taps Leita as vice president of markets, strategy
- Senate Energy advances DOE, BLM nominees
- Incumbent Cornyn heads to runoff; Talarico wins Texas Dem primary
- Wrap Up: Idaho plans for remote-handled TRU; Hanford solar project rights sold; waste board seeks new exec director; Nelson-Jean has new job; more
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- DOE seeks Hanford permit mod to grout some secondary waste
- Administration not renewing nuclear cleanup advisory board
- DOE to review responses to draft RFP on Los Alamos legacy cleanup biz
- Environmental Management hires reindustrialization specialist
- Oak Ridge lab vax policy litigation concludes
- Strong fourth quarter despite gov ops decrease for BWXT
- K West exhaust stack comes down at Hanford
- INL prime looking for vendors to handle emergency alarm work
- Wrap Up: Orano file enviro report; Amentum plans new HQ; BWXT appoints board member
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- Paducah data center presentation draws big crowd
- Washington state lawmakers draft bill on DOE’s nuclear lifecycle hub
- Corps to tear down six homes along Missouri’s Coldwater Creek
- Fluor reports lower earnings for quarter, year
- WIPP commences winter maintenance outage
- EM makes headway on taking down Idaho Naval prototype facilities
- Leidos negotiating co-investment deals with DoD for key programs
- Wrap Up: Amentum details JV holdings; White House appoints nuclear policy adviser; Illinois could add nuclear; mini-reactor goes to military base; more
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- ‘Energy dominance parks’ coming to DOE nuclear complex
- NMED takes action against DOE over rate of Los Alamos WIPP shipments
- Centrus, Fluor team up for Piketon uranium enrichment plant expansion
- Dispose of high-level defense waste first, ECA panel says
- Amentum reports mixed earnings, CEO bullish on nuclear
- Mixed results for Parsons in fourth quarter and 2025
- Triad looks for better equipment to scan TRU drums
- 497 massive converters extracted from Paducah C-333 building
- Ike White selected for DOE alumni association board
- Wrap Up: Centrus earnings dip; DOE nuclear records go digital; Hanford cyber team looks for threats; Paducah land cleared for major projects
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- California company gets DOE blessing to use vacant Hanford structure
- Jarrell to lead DOE NE nuclear fuel cycle; Murray heads to EM
- DOE’s Oak Ridge boss Olds adds interim Portsmouth/Paducah role
- DOE to restart uranium recovery at SRS
- Nuclear complex fights to attract, keep skilled workers
- DOE branches lay groundwork for future Y-12 work, NNSA exec says
- Sen. Hawley praises online portal for RECA claims
- Wrap Up: NRC starts reorg; Deep Isolation breaks ground on borehole; NEPA breaks offered for DOE advanced reactors; more
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- WTP solidified 40K gallons of waste in 25; ops resume after Christmas outage
- DOE cleanup office taps West Point alum as COO
- NNSA issues draft RFP for Savannah River Site ops
- RFP for Savannah River data centers closed, proposals being assessed
- DOE, NMED discussing plume strategy after state again blocks injections
- Kiewit exec: NNSA infrastructure must be overhauled swiftly, safely
- N3B picks up 95% of fee for fiscal 25
- LEU, not HALEU, drives current enrichment market
- Wrap Up: DOE issues RFI on nuclear lifecycle; winter keeps hold on nuclear sites; HAB seeks new members; much more
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- Washington state praises moving Hanford capsules to dry cask storage
- WIPP receives 33 shipments in December, numbers down in 2025
- TechSource acquired by Salas O’Brien
- DNFSB stayed busy during fiscal 2025, report says
- Los Alamos Ion Beam demo to start this year
- DOE denies ditching ALARA; review sought in 2025 executive order
- Wrap Up: Craig gets new post; DOE complex braces for storm; NDS to open; much more
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- Panel of experts seek new entity to handle nuclear waste
- Minibus that funds EM, NNSA passes Senate, heads to Trump’s desk
- DOE cleanup office issues Portsmouth landlord contract RFP
- Portsmouth/Paducah deputy moving on
- Pro2Serve hires experienced hand to lead Portsmouth/Paducah tech support
- Hanford cleanup office given until mid-March to address DNFSB inquiry
- Public radiation levels from Los Alamos low, annual report says
- Standard Nuclear receives HALEU shipment at Oak Ridge
- Wrap Up: High court won’t hear Beyond Nuclear case; Idaho Falls gets new mayor; Westinghouse taps legal official; more
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- Bipartisan 2026 appropriations minibus passes House with EM, Hanford funding
- DOE gets more time to decide where to grout Hanford waste
- Hanford WTP filled 26 containers of glass during 2025
- WIPP management tells DNFSB old hoist not a safety concern
- Canada starts regulatory review for deep geological repository
- Three companies awarded $2.7 billion in DOE uranium enrichment orders
- New SWPF filters increases Savannah River salt waste treatment
- DNFSB enters brave new world of generative AI for safety
- Wrap Up: Longtime House Dems to retire; NRC gets new chair; more
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- 2025 in review: Hanford finally makes glass; federal brain drain among top stories
- Nuclear cleanup office releases Hanford scorecards for fiscal 2025
- Northwest regional group backs EnergySolutions plan to import Ontario waste
- DOE recovering key isotopes from Cold War era material
- Centrus starts making centrifuges for LEU enrichment plant expansion
- Wrap Up: LATA turns 50; Orano strikes deal for space fuel: NNSA copters fly New Year’s Eve; Longenecker donates to museum
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- Hanford tank prime H2C invites grout proposals
- Geosyntec signs deal to buy Longenecker & Associates
- House appropriator Newhouse, who represents Hanford, won’t run again
- Trump signs NDAA that authorizes $26B for NNSA, $7B for defense cleanup
- Longtime Amentum executive Blankenhorn to head UCOR
- Coalition urges regional compact to reject imported radwaste from Ontario
- WIPP received 25 TRU waste shipments during November
- Nuclear cleanup office will oversee demolition of old Bettis facilities
- UCAN report urges closer role between Pentagon, nuclear industry
- Wrap Up: EnergySolutions forms data center partnership; N3B updates Los Alamos work; more
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- DOE picks up 3-year extension for Bechtel-led Salado at WIPP
- 222-S Lab operator extended another year
- Defense cleanup could receive about $7 billion under NDAA deal
- More than 20 containers of glass made so far at Hanford
- BWXT-led team receives final OK to manage Canadian National Labs
- Y-12 downgrades Building 9206 from nuclear facility status
- New Mexico starts cleaning up abandoned uranium mines
- Wrap up: Public briefing set on Los Alamos containers; Northwest group sets Dec. 19 vote on imported waste; INL proposal detailed; much more
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- Feds share more data on Savannah River SMR, data center solicitation
- Nearly half of Oak Ridge Site land suitable for reuse, feds say
- Ex-Hanford security employee pleads guilty, gets probation in COVID loan fraud case
- EnergySec Wright’s travels include Hanford, Idaho National Laboratory
- Holtec, TVA split $800M in DOE support for SMRs
- Ogg to retire as head of Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
- Amentum sees growth in latest quarter due to nuclear, space contracts
- Wrap up: Public briefing set on Los Alamos containers; Northwest group sets Dec. 19 vote on imported waste; INL proposal detailed; much more
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- With WTP started up, Hanford workers launch another key project
- DOE undergoes reorganization under Chris Wright
- Ex-Shaw exec, Bernhard Capital founder dies at 71
- UCOR CEO Rueter to call it a career in March 2026
- WIPP records 45 waste shipments in October
- Demolition of X-333 gets underway at Portsmouth
- SC high court: Attorneys in Savannah River MOX case entitled to $75M
- Wrap up: Groups fear weaker radiation standards; DOE loan issued to restart old reactor; Beyond Nuclear sues to block Palisades; more
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- Let’s catch up: A post-shutdown recap of EM-related developments
- Trump signs bill to end 43-day government shutdown
- Fleischmann: While shutdown ends without contractor furloughs, funds will be slow
- Savannah River report shows progress on liquid waste, downblending
- Regional group weighs EnergySolutions proposal to dispose of Canadian waste
- Group challenges NRC license for Holtec storage
- AtkinsRéalis sees strong earnings in third quarter
- BWXT brings on new general counsel
- Walsh makes first Hanford trip with little fanfare
- Wrap Up: Office space sought near INL; SRS CAB meeting cancelled; more
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- Paducah data center solicitation issued by DOE
- DNFSB plans to remain active safety monitor, it stresses in DOE letter
- BWXT records strong third quarter despite government shutdown
- Fluor earnings fall; company reaches deal on NuScale investment
- DOE, contractor managers update WIPP progress during forum
- No post-election deal yet on reopening government
- Former DOE exec Avery becomes Westinghouse VP
- Centrus earnings rise in 3Q ahead of planned Piketon expansion
- Amentum, AtkinsRéalis secure major UK nuclear cleanup biz
- Wrap Up: Y-12 office space sought; NWTRB delays meeting; Ex-VP Cheney dies at age 84
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- Walsh introduces himself in email to Environmental Management crew
- New EM boss will find old infrastructure, other challenges, DNFSB says
- Nuclear workforce needs more people, prime contractors tell conference
- Subcontractors forced to navigate government shutdown woes
- Newest jumbo SDU at Savannah River to undergo leak testing
- Savannah River staff, work not yet hit by shutdown: DOE
- Contractor group says NNSA, DOE contractors have 2-4 weeks of funding left
- Federal judge in California again holds up potential federal layoffs
- Busy nuclear earnings week ahead
- Wrap Up: Hanford WTP filling containers; Trump interested in nuke testing; Westinghouse, Cameco reach nuclear power deal with DOE; much more
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- Walsh officially sworn in as EM-1
- Idaho lab’s IWTU to remain offline into 2026
- Portsmouth, Paducah union reps troubled by shutdown limbo
- DNFSB authority reduced with only one member
- DNFSB praises former Acting Chair Summers
- New Mexico should not hold up out-of-state shipments to WIPP, ECA says
- First few canisters filled at Hanford’s Waste Treatment Plant
- With Griffith out, Fitzsimmons becomes acting undersecretary of energy
- Wrap Up: Centrus plans earnings call; Bill highlights reactor decom $$; BWXT hires Canada gov VP; more
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- Decades in the making, Hanford WTP makes first glass
- WTP to start operations with one of two melters
- Elected officials react to startup to vit plant startup
- Departing DNFSB acting head cautiously optimistic on watchdog’s future
- WIPP caps off fiscal 2025 with 61 shipments in September
- Oak Ridge industry day highlights data center potential
- Federal judge temporarily blocks layoffs during the shutdown
- Wrap Up: ‘House of Dynamite’ opens; Undersecretary in limbo; DOE hand joins L&A; meetings and more
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- Hot commissioning gets underway at Hanford vitrification plant
- Walsh confirmed by Senate to head DOE Environmental Management
- Oregon panel looks at fed shutdown impact on Hanford WTP
- DNFSB Acting Chair Summers enters home stretch
- Cortez Masto introduces legislation to help federal contractors during shutdown
- NNSA funded until Oct. 10, EnergySec Wright says, Rosen begs to differ
- Veolia appoints new North American executive
- High court agrees to hear arguments in radiation contamination case
- EM takes down Test Cell C at Nevada National Security Site
- Nuclear cleanup advisory chairs scheduled to meet later this month
- Wrap Up: Holtec drops N.M. interim storage plan; DNFSB reports on Y-12 emergency system; Charter extended for radiation panel
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- Washington state clears way for making glass at Hanford plant
- DOE can keep running for up to five days before big changes
- Cortez Masto fears shutdown impact on NNSS in splitting with Dems
- Los Alamos explores different strategy for WCS stranded waste
- Ex- NNSA acting head Teresa Robbins leaves for Oak Ridge EM
- New teams in place for Portsmouth, Paducah
- 16 million tons of Moab tailings removed
- Headquarters needs to harness data on soil, landfill cleanup at EM sites, GAO says
- DOE, landlord contractor break ground on new Hanford fire station
- Navarro-led lab contractor taps new boss, operations officer
- NNSA requests proposals for AI data centers at Savannah River Site
- LANL and NNSA complete tritium container treatment
- Wrap Up: Chung takes industry job; GAO looks at NNSA commute; Perma-Fix inks labor deal; Cleanup Caucus postponed
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- Acting EM chief Bradburne reiterates commitment to vitrification plant
- 2 EM data center solicitations expected this fall
- House passes, Senate rejects Nov. 21 CR, Trump threatens layoffs
- WIPP poised to hit shipment target; cites infrastructure progress
- Centrus looks to expand Piketon plant in a “multi-billion dollar” investment
- N3B Los Alamos touts its legacy waste shipments
- Clearer standards needed for onsite waste transfer at DOE sites, DNFSB told
- SRS, EPA officials not too worried about radioactive wasp nests
- Los Alamos needs more transparency with tritium venting, enviros say
- Wrap Up: Southern board gets $15 for WIPP support; Orano, Zeno strike a deal; Trump nominees start DOE posts; more
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- DOE issues Critical-Decision 4 supporting WTP operations
- Walsh still waiting as NNSA, Nuclear Energy nominees confirmed in group package
- It’s official: Bradburne now sits atop EM org chart
- House passes stopgap with nuclear weapons exceptions
- Hanford waste moved to double-shell tank
- Feds seek to speed work on SRS plutonium facility
- WIPP received 55 TRU waste shipments in August
- EM prime ready to demolish more aging Oak Ridge structures
- Wrap Up: BWXT wins $1.5B DUECE contract; GLE completes demo; Amentum wins UK biz; much more
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- PPPO boss Bradburne steps in at EM; Murray puts hold on Walsh
- Knerr steps up to acting manager post at Portsmouth/Paducah
- Jarrell out at DOE nuclear cleanup branch
- New Mexico clears way for temporary Los Alamos tritium venting
- Senate Republicans trying to confirm nominees en bloc soon
- NDAA passes House with five nuclear amendments, Senate still loitering
- DOE seeks data center proposals for Idaho National Lab
- Justice urges court to throw out Riverkeeper’s Hanford FOIA case
- Paducah, Portsmouth getting new cold box systems for DUF6
- Wrap Up: BWXT taps new strategy officer; Urenco USA starts up new cascade; DOE invests in labs; NWTRB reschedules meeting; more
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- DNFSB makes agency fixes, but needs members, GAO finds
- House energy and water apps bill trimming EM passes by single vote
- Los Alamos power line project alternatives unreliable, NNSA says
- Oklo to build a fuel recycling plant in Oak Ridge
- DOE interested in small contractors for Hanford work
- DOE could extend UCOR at Transuranic Waste Center
- Current waste treatment deals end in December
- Wrap Up: Oak Ridge dedicates K-25 center; PNNL director selected; 2024 good year for nuclear power; Hanford evacuation cited
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- Geimer appointed DOE’s new Hanford Site manager
- Environmental Management nominee Walsh becomes DOE adviser
- White House could tap plutonium reserves for nuclear fuel
- DOE cleanup office seeks more time on WIPP response to DNFSB
- Over 1,000 containers of DUF6 converted to oxide in fiscal 2025
- Five companies land DOE agreements for low-level waste
- Fire did not spread radiological contamination beyond ETEC, report says
- Former DOE staff chief spearheads alumni group
- Wrap Up: EM exec speaks at Fukushima meeting; Naval facility D&D planned at INL; OIG weighs in on NNSA papers
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- Back to the future: California startup plans enrichment facility at Paducah
- Amentum execs bank on nuclear, defense growth
- With Congress in recess, pending DOE/NNSA noms make for a busy fall
- BWXT enjoys strong quarter led by government operations
- DNFSB wants to know how smaller DOE will protect safety
- NMED wants WIPP timetable on infrastructure fixes
- AtkinsRéalis sees significant jump in quarterly earnings
- Leidos reports increase in second quarter earnings
- Centrus earnings decrease in second quarter but increase in HALEU revenue
- NWTRB summer meeting set for Aug. 27
- SRS chief seeks to reassure public on contaminated wasp nests
- Wrap Up: EnergSec dedicates offsite SRNL center; SRS empties another tank; Urenco plan wins NRC OK; more
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- EM nominee Walsh advanced by panel despite partisan split
- Hanford Site gets until Oct. 15 to start making glass
- Carlsbad boss dubs GAO report on WIPP infrastructure old news
- Fluor expects SRS pits contract out in coming months
- NNSA says old buildings taken down at Kirtland
- GAO: DOE’s Inspector General needs better audit cost estimates
- Radioactive wasp nest turned up at SRS
- Wrap Up: HII earnings dip; TVA nuke boss resigns; NRC panel takes shape; Texas SMR suit put on hold; Va. nuke board members appointed
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- Better debriefings could demystify bid protests, panel told
- DOE selects four complex sites for AI data center deployment
- DOE rolling out document on HALEU preparation at SRS
- Two nuclear vendors combine as RSI buys Sigma Science
- Deep Isolation takes first steps towards going public
- Baseline study completed for potential Paducah land transfer
- SRS targets August ribbon-cutting for Advanced Manufacturing center
- EnergySolutions team wins $240 million worth of Navy cleanup biz
- Wrap Up: EM not hit by Chinese hack; Portsmouth gets more landfill cells; BWXT working on Pele and TRISO; Vote looms on Wright; Hruby joins Bulletin; Newhouse gets threats; more
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- House Appropriations bill trimming EM to $7.7 B moves to full House
- Ex-Hanford boss Vance taking helm at Framatome Richland plant
- Enviro groups sue DOE, EPA over Oak Ridge landfill
- WIPP receives 59 shipments in June, most in a year
- Draft RFP for Portsmouth landlord services could be out this summer
- OIG questions DOE management of HALEU demonstration contract process
- Water treatment facility torn down at Hanford
- Alvarez, former government official and nuclear watchdog, dies
- Wrap Up: DOE kicks of pilot program; NEA tracks SMRs, Lawmaker defends GAO; Rocky Flats doc plays this weekend
