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- Hanford ‘weeks’ away from putting simulant waste into treatment plant
- GAO says more work needed on DOE procurements
- Without new contract, Hanford guards stop work pre-Thanksgiving
- Most SRS WIPP shipments in fiscal 24 resulted from downblend program
- GAO to rule on PPPO challenge by late February; no word on West Valley transition
- Steelworkers local prez upbeat on Portsmouth nickel
- GOP challenger concedes race against House appropriator Kaptur
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- Washington Ecology, DOE agree to new steps on leaking tanks
- Trump plans to nominate fossil exec, nuclear-startup board member to head DOE
- Bid protest filed in Portsmouth/Paducah ops, DUF6 award
- GAO urges DOE to seek waivers on drinking water remediation standards
- WIPP handles 29 shipments in October, down slightly from 2023 pace
- WCS again tapped for DOE elemental mercury storage
- Jacobs highlights ownership stake in new, public Amentum
- Helene complicated EM’s final days as Savannah River landlord
- Anti-nuclear advocacy group seeks partial relief from Rocky Flats order
- Boston Government Services appoints senior biz vp
- Wrap up: SRS center nearly done; AP dubs Kaptur winner in Ohio; NGA chart looks at radwaste terms; Ex-fed joins HII
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- Atkins-led Portsmouth/Paducah contract could add up to $2.3B, DOE says
- News orgs call Washington’s fourth district for Newhouse re-election
- House appropriator Kaptur had narrow lead over challenger
- Atkins earnings dip, but revenue rises
- DOE hopes to refurbish WIPP salt pocket by spring 2025
- 8th Circuit refuses to toss out Coldwater Creek case, allows motion for rehearing
- Ventura fires don’t affect Santa Susana/ETEC
- Energysec in 2nd Trump term could be conventional or ‘curve ball’
- Wrap up: Idaho gets deputy cleanup boss; Adam Smith cruises to win; White House report mentions repository
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- Rosen held edge in Nevada; Hanford incumbent Newhouse leads early over Trump backed candidate
- Judge compels arbitration in case pitting Hanford landlord against Guards Union case
- New pit waste, some older waste excluded from ‘legacy’ transuranic definition
- EM highlights tank contractor transition, waste treatment plant timeline
- LANL transmission line ‘necessary,’ lab field office manager writes
- BWXT reported strong quarter with increase in government operations
- Fluor’s earnings fall in third quarter
- Wrap up: Washington Ecology promotes from within; Defense board appoints Los Alamos inspector; Fall trainer for Hammer
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- DOE’s resumes suspended chromium plume work
- BWXT-led group wins new West Valley remediation contract
- SRS cleanup contractor now 50% confident in finishing liquid waste by 2037
- Judge rejects motion to reconsider ruling on Hanford liquid waste contract
- WIPP envisions fewer shipments in fiscal 2025
- DOE pretreats 2,000 gallons at Hanford for test bed project
- DOE, WIPP prime prepare release legacy waste document
- Los Alamos transuranic waste okay for two more years in commercial storage, NRC says
- Oak Ridge kicks off property transfer for Orano
- Centrus has third quarter loss
- Wrap up: DNFSB cites vehicle accidents at Idaho; Ex-Trump DOE chief to depart EEI; ; Rocky Flats film opens
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- With transition under way, new Hanford liquid-waste introduces public to leadership
- Idaho contractor boss moving on
- IWTU treated more than 80K gallons of waste at Idaho since restart
- Judge accepts guilty plea from Hanford contractor accused of COVID fraud
- AtkinsRéalis nuclear unit stays in-house with interim prez
- Feds, Idaho take comment on cleanup for naval reactor sub prototype
- ORNL couple seek ask appeals court to reverse COVID-19 ruling by district judge
- Honeywell earnings dip in third quarter
- Wrap up: Moab project hits 15 million tons; Roswell area flooding alters some WIPP shipments; Centrus VP retiring
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- After court slog, transition to new Hanford liquid waste contractor will begin
- Atkins group seeks restraining order on Hanford contract
- WIPP beats fiscal ’23 shipment total
- DNFSB Chair Connery reaching end of term but not leaving just yet
- Jeff Allison will retire as deputy manager at Savannah River Field Office at end of year
- Wrap up: Nickel recycling facility planned for Portsmouth, DOE lauds WIPP waste haulers; DNFSB turns 35 years old
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- BWXT team’s Hanford proposal ‘clearly superior,’ had ‘significant’ personnel advantage over Atkins team, judge’s opinion shows
- Layoffs at Hanford rang in new fiscal year
- Missouri seeks law “mitigating” risks from legacy nuclear-weapons; forms special committee
- SRS returned to normal operations Monday post-hurricane
- UCOR facing another COVID-19 vax lawsuit, this one from equipment operator
- Amentum Holdings stock traded around $27 a share on Friday
- Oak Ridge, Tenn. taps brakes on airport plans after Orano plant announcement
- Former federal appropriator who shaped DOE nuclear policy dies, reports say
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- NNSA assumes landlord responsibility for Savannah River Site from EM
- Oral arguments set Oct. 10 in Hanford tank contract case
- GAO again says look at grout for Hanford high-level waste
- DOE says DUF6 plants back in full operation
- Obama appointees depart as Biden staffs up Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
- DOE awards pond weir work at Oak Ridge
- Unexplained lane departure was cause of fatal crash that killed former LANL director, police say
- Wrap up: DOE consolidates Hanford field offices; environmental report issued for Nevada site; WIPP forum planned
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- Three-month stopgap, clean for DOE, passes Congress; $8.5M equivalent budget for Environmental Management
- Amentum-Jacobs merger to close Friday
- After court rules for rival, losing bidder tries to keep lawsuit over Hanford award on life support
- DOE report on excess facilities cleanup running late, GAO reports
- Ex-EM lead approved unanimously by Senate committee for defense board spot
- RECA extension would pass House if Speaker held vote, Hawley tells Navajo
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- Hundreds of thousands of gallons of tank waste ready to be solidified at Hanford, site official says
- Six-month CR fails again in House; seven working days til shutdown
- Judge declines to block walking trail near former Rocky Flats grounds
- Interim storage consortia progress report due in December, DOE official says
- Rep. Wilson’s issues ‘resolved’ by pacemaker, lawmaker says
- Job listing for new SRNL director going up this week, official says
- WIPP shipments dip year-over-year in August, but still pacing a gain over 2023
- President of Nevada site prime to resign in fall
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- Judge rules for BWXT in case of Hanford liquid waste contract
- DOE and New Mexico sign new agreement for Los Alamos legacy cleanup
- Vote canned on House Speaker Johnson’s stopgap budget
- IWTU resumes liquid waste cleanup after five-month outage, DOE says
- DOE sticking with November deadline for cold commissioning of Hanford waste treatment plant
- Hanford consolidates field offices Oct. 1; advisory board member worries
- Environmental Management to evaluate effectiveness of citizen advisory boards by early 2026
- Former LANL director McMillan dies in car crash in Los Alamos
- Wrap Up: Jacobs-Amentum combo becomes final in 2 weeks; SRS lawmaker hospitalized; ECA wants review of DOE nuclear cleanup; more
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- Hanford grouts K West reactor basin, prepares for cocooning
- Baran is back: ex-NRC commissioner lands new gig at Department of Energy
- Accord on ‘25 EM spending levels close, but shutdown talk precedes Congress’ return
- Patricia Lee sworn into DNFSB
- Groundbreaking to start next week on parts of Rocky Flats hiking trail
- Orano picks Oak Ridge as ‘preferred site’ for uranium enrichment plant
- BWXT taps new president Gary Camper for largest of company’s business segments
- Wrap up: Small biz retirement; small biz award; obituary
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- UCOR not immune from suit by fired employee in COVID vax case
- DOE believes Panels 11 and 12 won’t worsen risk at WIPP
- Claims court holds hearing in $45B Hanford bid protest
- DOE cannot shed emergency responsibility at old nuclear sites, ECA says in letter
- States to be looped in ahead of next year’s RFI for federal interim-storage host site
- Nevada Site wildfire fully contained, NNSA reports
- Dems, GOP back nuclear energy, platforms say
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- Cleanup to Clean Energy status update: solar now planned at five DOE sites
- Federal court judge approves November start of Hanford WTP cold commissioning
- DOE market research gets underway for next step of Los Alamos cleanup
- Better roads to WIPP; monitoring of Hanford Building 324, concern Senate panel
- Most of corrugated metal pipe dug up at Los Alamos, N3B says
- Nuclear sector companies claw back from Monday stock market plunge
- ‘Acting’ deleted from Hanford landlord executive titles
- BWXT CEO Geveden: Hanford contract case could be resolved within months
- Dem incumbent falls; GOP lawmaker stays alive in House primaries
- Jacobs earnings dip prior to late September closing of Amentum deal
- Expanding Amentum made big acquisitions in recent years
- Oak Ridge Lab couple tell Sixth Circuit district judge erred in COVID vax case
- Wrap Up: AtkinsRéalis, BWXT see earnings rise; Wet storage time cut for Canadian plant; more
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- Case cited by losing Hanford tanks bidder has no bearing on DOE award, winning bidder says
- Senate offers more dollars for EM, Hanford than House Appropriations
- Fluor reports quarterly earnings uptick; touts weapons complex foothold
- DOE, WIPP stakeholders ponder age criteria for ‘legacy’ waste
- Nevada Site to receive contaminated soil from Santa Susana
- Nuclear critics urge Senate appropriators to fully fund DNFSB
- HMIS seeks building space sub at Hanford Site
- GAO urges greater scrutiny of major DOE cleanup infrastructure projects
- SRS hopes to reach deal with first solar developer
- Washington Ecology to take comments on vapor control research technology
- Two VPs at Leidos-led Hanford contractor call it a career
- Wrap up: Fluor appoints COO; SRS board wants NNSA relationship; Knoxville biz gets Oak Ridge admin work; more
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- Amentum-Jacobs contracting combo plan NYSE listing, board of directors
- House abandons planned vote on DOE’s 2025 budget bill
- DOE looks to Hecate to develop large Hanford solar project
- South Carolina won a $600M settlement with DOE. The money could change — in big ways and small — how people in Aiken live
- DOE plans to boost value of Carlsbad technical assistance deal with Navarro
- During New Mexico meeting, DOE bosses get earful on pits, WIPP, power lines
- EPA takes comments on WIPP plans for new disposal panels
- DNFSB sets August hearing on aging infrastructure
- DOE Nevada completes upgrades required by settlement over mislabeled Y-12 waste
- Losing Hanford bidder says recent court decision bolsters case to disqualify winner
- GAO says EM lacks consistent remote-work policy; internships do not pay dividends
- Wrap up: WRPS starts more tank work; NNSA boss says LANL growth peaked; plaintiff serves Sandia in defamation case; more
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- Workforce woes bedevil DOE cleanup office, GAO finds
- While Hanford works on problem areas, GAO says more progress needed
- AtkinsRéalis promotes COO to acting president
- WIPP handles 64 shipments during June, beating year-ago pace
- New president takes over at Hanford’s Central Plateau Cleanup
- DNFSB welcomes Lee confirmation, reaching quorum again
- Conservative policy document urges accelerating DOE cleanup at Hanford, elsewhere
- Amentum’s new IR head will work on Jacobs’ merger-related issues
- Federal judge will not expedite Hanford Guards Union case
- Senate Armed Services seeks GAO reports on infrastructure, other nuke cleanup issues
- N.M. lawmakers continue to press case for updating RECA
- Exchange Monitor 2024 U.S. election digest
- Wrap up: Second developer picked for SRS solar, DOE sites honored for sustainability, more
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- Full House Appropriations panel passes subcommittee bill with $8.3B for DOE cleanup
- Hanford faces deadline crush to sort out grouting options
- Senate votes to confirm Lee to DNFSB
- DOE, New Mexico reach partial accord on LANL cleanup; talks continue
- Portsmouth cleanup, DUF6 incumbent to get another DOE extension
- Senate committee’s NDAA backs $7B for defense environmental; allows speedier cleanup at NNSA sites
- DOE’s nuclear cleanup office needs program management upgrades, GAO says
- Senate defense bill seeks GAO report on DNFSB
- DOE updates contractor diversity expectations amid House GOP pushback
- Wrap up: WIPP DNFSB briefing delayed until September; Top EM/NNSA bosses to appear in Santa Fe; WRPS seeks sub; more
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- Ecology posts demo permit for 2,000-gallon test bed, challenge possible
- Longtime Amentum exec Covert retires at Hanford
- Hanford guards ask federal court to force arbitration before HMIS labor pact ends
- Hanford landlord appoints acting COO
- Judge appointed to hear discrimination case against SRNS
- NNSA partners with Los Alamos in largest carbon-free energy procurement ever
- Wrap up: Hanford crews empty 21st tank; WIPP hits 14,000 shipments; WIPP sets town hall
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- House Subcommittee backs DOE nuclear cleanup plan worth $8.32 billion
- BWXT-led winner of Hanford liquid waste contract withdraws appeals court action
- Central Plateau Cleanup president to be succeeded by Hanford landlord boss
- Builder could pass keys to new WIPP ventilation project to Salado in August
- Current providers Fluor-BWXT, Mid-America win bulk of DOE fee
- DNFSB seeks briefing on Savannah River representative program fixes
- Hanford-area environmental groups not shocked by slip in cold commissioning
- Aptim lands potential $630M worth of naval reactor cleanup work
- Honeywell exec elected new EFCOG board chair
- Wrap Up: 6th Circuit foregoes arguments in Oak Ridge vax suit; GAO looks at NNSA diversity; Lab exec takes new post
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- DOE signals four-month delay in cold commissioning for Hanford waste treatment plant
- Robertson pledges to work with stakeholders on cleanup; lauds predecessor
- Senate inches closer to vote on Lee’s DNFSB nomination
- WIPP takes in 51 shipments during May; DOE touts ventilation system construction
- Stellar Renewable wins Savannah River solar power award
- Parties in $45B contract battle make arguments in closed-door hearing with claims judge
- After 5 years, Ike White era ends, Robertson takes charge at DOE cleanup office
- Weapons complex site managers wrestle with tech, workforce issues
- Innovative wins $8.3M contract to handle workers comp at DOE Hanford Site
- Wrap Up: Oak Ridge, Paducah RFPs could be out over summer; EM revs up EVs; Kunkle starts at LANL
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- Broken ceramic filter elements linked to latest IWTU woes, DOE says
- Idaho National Lab shipments provide more than 70% of WIPP traffic
- NNSA picks Estuary for a solar project at NNSS
- Thirteen potential bidders show up for Paducah landlord info session
- Final RFP issued for DOE cleanup consolidated tech support contract
- DOE cleanup branch starts market research on potential cyber security contract
- Nuclear executive in Tennessee dies, sources say
- Boston Government founder steps down as CEO
- DOE remains mum on Portsmouth transition, PPPO award
- Wrap Up: Executive to leave DOE; L&A board appoints 2 members; SMR for Savannah River?
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- Two developers picked by DOE for solar projects at Idaho National Lab
- WIPP ventilation readiness assessment expected by year end
- Texas governor wary of accepting GTCC waste
- Expensive cyber rules on the way for federal contracts, ex-CIO warns
- With RECA slated to expire, pressure builds on GOP speaker
- DOE cleanup branch updates asset needs
- DOE turns attention to groundwater cleanup at Oak Ridge uranium enrichment area
- Wrap up: Baltzer appointed Deep Isolation CEO; Paducah water tower comes down; Drone checks out area of WIPP underground
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- Robertson picked to succeed White at EM helm
- Judge sets closed-door hearing in $45B DOE Hanford contract battle
- ‘Keith Richards might be dead by then,’ King says of best-case Hanford scenario
- WIPP prime suspends work following safety accidents
- Extra month granted for WIPP clean power proposals
- Bernhard Capital buys Apogee
- Wrap up: Second melter makes Hanford test glass; SRS empties tank; Adams named to North Wind post
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- Biden intends to nominate Ike White for DNFSB post
- Some surprised by White DNFSB news, ponder what’s next at EM
- Draft RFP issued for Paducah landlord contract by DOE
- Safety board wants briefing on new WIPP ventilation system
- Parsons wins civilian appeals board ruling on DOE fee
- SWPF waste stream still moving slowly at SRS
- UCOR denies violating ADA in firing employee
- UCOR COVID case paused during mediation talks
- September 2025 trial date set for Hanford landlord contractor
- House appropriator Simpson wins Idaho GOP primary
- Oak Ridge lab couple pursue discrimination claims in Sixth Circuit
- Full cleanup expected at Savannah River Site by 2065
- New Jacobs CFO to start next month
- West Valley could send another batch of containers to WCS this summer
- Wrap up: Lab soil contractor sought; House panel advances NDAA but not RECA; more
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- WIPP takes in 54 shipments during its first full month post-outage
- NNSA manager is new environmental field boss at Los Alamos
- DOE plans Paducah landlord presentation, site tour May 29
- Second round clean energy RFI released for Savannah River
- Navarro, 2 other small businesses form Nuclear Services Partners
- With 1 small Portsmouth labor deal in hand, Steelworkers pursue another
- Magistrate coordinates overlapping discovery in Portsmouth cases
- AtkinsRéalis reports strong 1Q earnings, rising nuclear tide
- Supporters of reupping radiation compensation law urge House vote
- Wrap up: Hanford backs DOE research into WIPP backup; Prep work advances for Oak Ridge landfill; Nevada lawmakers seek to snuff out any Yucca revival; more
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- Agencies dub holistic deal realistic and doable; defend DOE on Hanford HLW
- Hanford advisory panel raises questions on grout, other issues
- Jacobs earnings dip, company secures some approvals for Amentum deal
- BWXT touts re-award, hopes for Hanford waste contract transition this year
- DOE releases details on May 23 SRS clean energy information day
- N3B inks Los Alamos subcontracts for building upkeep, health clinic
- Lawmakers urge Speaker Johnson to set House vote on Radiation Exposure Act
- Newhouse faces challenge from former Senate candidate
- Wrap up: 2025 trial possible in case against Hanford landlord; Ex- Canada lab exec joins SRS prime; Ex-DOE manager Flohr joins Navarro; and more
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- No slippage of glass-making timelines in ‘holistic’ agreement for Hanford
- Hanford bid protester seeks permanent injunction on DOE’s $45B award to BWXT-led group
- DOE to extend Swift & Staley as Paducah landlord; RFP expected soon
- Hanford settlement agreement lays out path for grouting some low-level waste
- Earnings rise at Fluor; Pantex award decision expected soon
- DOE’s high-level reinterpretation not included in holistic agreement at Hanford
- 14 small businesses share DOE’s nationwide D&D award; North Wind gets first order
- August readiness review planned for Savannah River transition
- DOE doing ‘deep dive’ on aging infrastructure, agency tells defense board
- Leidos touts strong first quarter
- Big charge in first quarter, but Parsons reports business booming
- Wrap up: New nuclear unit comes online; DOE evaluates SRS solar offers; Oak Ridge reactor vessel shipped; and more
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- BWXT group argues Claims Court wrong in blocking initial $45B Hanford contract; seeks venue change in protest over second award
- DOE can learn from other feds on workplace safety trends, investigation finds
- WIPP prime hires sub to refurbish underground storage bin for mined salt
- Hanford undamaged by earthquake, DOE says
- South Carolina environmental regulatory realignment set July 1
- Fleischmann lands seat on defense appropriations subcommittee
- Wrap up: Ex-Miss America joins nuclear workforce; Los Alamos ships waste; NNSA replaces aging Nevada power lines and more
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