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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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- New ‘holistic’ Hanford cleanup details out soon, Cantwell says
- Los Alamos hexavalent chromium review won’t dither, says former DOE cleanup boss
- WIPP shipments dip from March 2023 as outage shortens availability
- SMSI sold to Bernhard Capital Partners
- DOE formally rolls out plan for six-month extension of Fluor-BWXT at Portsmouth
- Locals say DOE to pick up final two-year option with Paducah prime Four Rivers
- DOE approves supersized SDU-9 for operation at Savannah River
- Final plaintiff settles Oak Ridge National Lab COVID vax case
- Plaintiff claims false, defamatory DOE statements caused divorce
- Western mine office cleanup bill advances in Senate
- Trump backs Newhouse challenger in Congressional race
- Wrap up: Final RFQ issued for WIPP clean energy; AtkinsRéalis opens tech center; Huff leaving DOE; and more
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- GAO decision on online registration, cited in litigation over $45B Hanford waste contract
- DOE asking bidders for tweaks on combined DUF6, operations proposals
- COVID-19 vaccination was ‘reasonable precaution,’ UCOR says in wrongful termination suit
- Deal close? DOE, NMED get 90 more days for Los Alamos settlement talks
- Hanford’s second melter comes online
- WIPP seeks state blessing for new containers to ramp up remote-handled waste shipments
- Livermore plans to use Aptim for teardown of Building 281
- Portsmouth contractors: “Hard to imagine” why cancer patient waited until 2023 to file suit
- Arizona, New Mexico governors want feds to prioritize uranium mine cleanup
- Judge sets May conference in Hanford False Claims Act case
- Wrap: House vote sought on compensation bill; EPA updates PRAS advice; Cole to lead House panel and more
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- $45B Hanford award spawns 3 court cases so far; next BWXT filing due April 22
- Environmental Management creates tech officer silo, another change troubles ECA
- DNFSB touts 2023 safety work in report to Congress
- Paducah, West Valley prepare for solar eclipse
- Hanford sends drums of sodium waste to Tennessee for treatment
- UCOR balks at providing vax records for non-litigants as COVID cases advance
- Down to one plaintiff, trial set this month in COVID case against ORNL prime
- Deadline extended on Nevada Clean Energy RFQ until tax day
- SRS solar developer faces August deadline for power line hookup
- Extra week granted in Deepwater FUSRAP cleanup solicitation
- Federal judge considers next step in lawsuit over Rocky Flats Refuge trail
- DOE plans DUF6 extension; Spent fuel hearing set; ex-EM Los Alamos boss takes NNSA post and more
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- AtkinsRéalis team again protests $45B Hanford tanks contract award
- New Mexico says not so fast to shipments of stranded transuranic waste to WIPP from WCS
- Hanford landlord asks court to throw out Justice Department False Claims Act case
- White House seeks $47.2M for DNFSB in fiscal 2025
- UCOR receives extension to reply to wrongful discharge case
- Development group favors new nuclear, more local control of land around Hanford Site
- Second Hanford vit plant melter reaches 2,100 degrees
- Fired worker tells Sixth Circuit UCOR lacks sovereign immunity
- Companies in electric power, nuclear enrichment, others attend WIPP clean energy day
- Easy does it: Speed cameras planned at Los Alamos
- Wrap Up: LANL electric comments reviewed; Oak Ridge list posted; DOE awards $24.7M worth of grants and more
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- Hanford remediation could extend to nearly 22nd century
- Granholm fields House lawmaker questions on Hanford, NNSA
- Subs, small businesses short-changed from Bechtel vit contract, OIG finds
- Minibus appropriations bill with Defense Department funds has Price-Anderson extension
- Hanford lays groundwork for resumption of TRU shipments to WIPP
- WIPP works on defining legacy waste, finishing big infrastructure projects
- Federal judge again rejects adding plaintiffs to current UCOR COVID case
- UCOR inks multiyear deal contract with building trades union
- In revised complaint, plaintiff Shaw points to cancer rates around Portsmouth Site
- DOE rejects deadline extension for Portsmouth-Paducah tech support RFP
- WIPP should have reported when 2 miners were stuck in hoist, board says
- DOE agrees to install mobile showers at Hanford disposal site under settlement
- Wrap Up: EM forecasts only 2 RFPs this summer; Ex-Hanford EPA boss dies in accident; Idaho DOE managers to brief congress; and more
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- DOE request would trim 2025 cleanup budget, increase Hanford spend
- Economic development plays big role in Waste Management sessions
- IWTU hits a re-start snag, crews look for a fix
- DOE hopes to select early clean power projects this fiscal year
- Power companies look to set up shop next at Portsmouth Site
- EM2 Avery wants ‘laser’ focus on cleanup while backing ‘public good’
- No. 2 cleanup boss Avery understands frustration with procurement pace
- Maintenance outage concludes, shipments to resume at WIPP
- Nuclear increasingly seen as part of worldwide carbon control strategy, IAEA chief says
- Dilute and dispose looks to boost shipments to WIPP this year
- Second melter heats up at Hanford vitrification plant
- Six labs receive $27M for Hanford liquid waste research; Congress wants research briefing
- Wrap Up: ‘Better contracting’ sought by EM; Washington Ecology picks new nuclear boss; SRS adds electric vehicles and more
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- Hanford tanks would make BWXT-led groups environmental primes at Hanford, SRS
- Spending at DOE’s big nuclear cleanup sites inch upward in compromise bill
- Bechtel wins 92% of potential high-level waste fee for 2023 vit plant work
- Draft RFP issued for potential $90-million EM tech support contract
- Down to two members, DNFSB still seeking quorum
- DNFSB makes senior staff promotions
- Senate passes RECA extension, Biden plans to sign
- Qualified developers of carbon-free power sought for DOE Hanford Site
- NNSA seeking candidates to build clean-energy project in Nevada
- Portsmouth contractors seek dismissal of suit by leukemia patient
- Army Corps starts sampling for contamination buried deep under St. Louis suburb
- Legacy contractor closes book on DP Road cleanup in Los Alamos
- Corps RFP published for FUSRAP project in New Jersey
- Wrap Up: New Idaho cleanup boss starts soon; West Valley bidders get extension; New Mexico fines LANL and more
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- Upon further review, DOE re-awards mega-dollar Hanford tank contract to BWXT-led group
- Congress passes another stopgap budget bill, keeps DOE open
- DOE issues information request for clean energy developers at WIPP
- BWXT earnings rise in 2023, fourth quarter; Hanford award a ‘wild card’
- DOE solicits bids for Portsmouth/Paducah tech support services
- U.S. needs to work with Marshall Islands, fund cleanup from nuclear tests, leader says
- Race for Simpson’s congressional seat draws interest
- DOE studies vitrification options for solidifying calcine at Idaho lab
- WIPP seismic monitoring equipment offline
- Wrap Up: Power projects sought for INL; Feds, Physicians group debate Rocky Flats; Hawley pushes for radiation compensation; and more
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- Idaho on pace to ship legacy waste to WIPP by 2032
- IWTU to resume ops in March but DNFSB says problems remain, DOE seeks higher output
- Proposals due this month from subs seeking Hanford electrical work
- DOE offers details on partial Hanford 222-S Lab evacuation
- PE firm sells DOE businesses after three-years of M&A; Cadre Holdings acquires
- Fluor CEO anticipates Pantex award decision in second half of year
- UCOR tells Sixth Circuit it should have sovereign immunity from COVID lawsuit
- Another group of Oak Ridge vax objectors file suit against UCOR
- Wrap Up: DUF6 contractor faces $382K fine; Hanford tank pipeline deadline extended; INL has money in reserve; more
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- 50 shipments of transuranic waste arrive at WIPP during January
- DOE picks No. 2 Brown to succeed Flohr as Idaho cleanup boss
- Judge will not grant statute-of-limitation break to potential plaintiffs in Oak Ridge COVID suit
- Washington comment period for 2,000-gallon test-bed permit starts in March
- In 2023 report, Corps cites progress on FUSRAP cleanup, including shuttered school
- DOE moves closer to startup of second Hanford vit plant melter
- Ex-NASCAR racer taking another run at Newhouse’s Hanford seat
- Oak Ridge airport might run a deficit in fifth year
- City of Oak Ridge eyes application for $2M DOE community grant
- ‘Downwind’ film by Hollywood actors considers legacy of Nevada nuclear testing
- Wrap Up: Honeywell diamond anniversary; Final Portsmouth-Paducah tech support RFP out soon; More time granted on LANL plume comments; more
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- Hanford gradually overcoming hurdles toward making glass, panel told
- Jacobs reports strong first earnings after merger announcement
- Judge deals blow to Idaho county’s INL lawsuit, leaves door open for refiling
- WIPP expects more shipments, clean energy project in near term, lawmakers told
- West Valley bidders get extra week; humans, not AI, will vet proposals
- WRPS looking for potential subs to refurbish underground tank pipeline
- Missouri gov seeks funds for further investigations of radioactive contamination
- Coldwater Creek Congresswoman gets another primary challenger
- Los Alamos looks at episodes of skin contamination
- Portsmouth contractors seek more time in civil suit
- Wrap Up: Lax practices cited in INL carbon monoxide exposure; Cold snap causes Hanford damage; Oak Ridge transfers land and more
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- Completing WIPP airflow project, cold commissioning of Hanford vit plant targeted for 2024
- New Environmental Management contracts prove elusive for 2023
- SRS advisory board members getting more comfortable with NNSA takeover
- DNFSB urges more improvements to Triad’s transuranic waste program
- Corps cites progress on removal of Coldwater Creek contaminated soil
- With Oppenheimer movie buzz, Hawley wants Hollywood recognition of nuke testing victims
- Congresswoman Coldwater Creek contamination district investigated for campaign fund misuse
- Savannah River supervisor retiring in February
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- Justice accuses Hanford landlord of overbilling while letting fire protection tasks slide
- Outage ends, IWTU to start heating up next month, DOE says
- State Hanford regulator to take new Washington Ecology post in February
- Post-accident work resuming on WIPP utility shaft, safety consultant hired
- Crews start development of WIPP’s Panel 11
- Ninth Circuit sides with DOE Sandia contractor, finds scientist not fired
- NNSA publishes final environmental study on disposal of surplus plutonium
- DOE looks to extend UF6 deal with contractor
- Judge agrees to stay COVID case against UCOR pending appeals court ruling
- Wrap Up: EM seeks new Los Alamos boss; Corps plans N.J. FUSRAP work; 8 members tapped for EM panel and more
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- 2023 was best post-shutdown year so far for WIPP
- Savannah River prime starts shopping for sub to build emergency ops center
- Hanford landlord lands only 35% of subjective fee due to fire system problems
- New Oak Ridge deputy picked as Wilkerson takes new role
- Biden signs new funding bill, averting shutdown; House speaker opposed to omnibus
- 50-plus industry reps check out DOE’s tech services at Portsmouth-Paducah
- Tribes, DOE, Air Force weigh in on clean energy projects at Nevada site
- UT Battelle says vax objectors suffered no harm, asks court to toss lawsuit
- Hanford ‘downwinder’ Bailie dies at age 76
- Wrap up: Hanford workers miss another day; EM advisory board renewed for 2 years; HII’s Lempke adds new role and more
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- Feds seek proposals for potential $3B remediation contract at West Valley
- DOE plans to increase Hanford landlord contract by $1.3B
- DNFSB chair, members ‘undermined’ first exec director for safety watchdog
- Congressional leaders agree on 2024 spending limit; still much work
- Jacobs-led contractor taps new president at West Valley Demonstration Project
- Feds, New Mexico continue settlement talks on new Los Alamos cleanup order
- Amputation prompts DOE attention to APTIM-North Wind training
- DOE extends CDM’s Santa Susana contract into August
- Feds sued by citizen groups questioning adequacy of Rocky Flats cleanup
- EPA offers court schedule for responding to Oak Ridge landfill documents request
- Wrap up: Canada OKs disposal site; Oak Ridge looks at tech support; Oppenheimer wins big at Golden Globes and much more
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- Mega-merger, procurements, protest, SRS and clean-energy loom in 2024
- Feds to contract WCS for 2 more years of stranded TRU storage
- Idaho cleanup boss Flohr to retire from DOE, take Navarro post
- Grouting excess low-level waste still years away at Hanford Site, report says
- Outcome of megadollar Hanford tank contract rests with federal court, GAO says
- New contractor Inomedic Health takes over at Hanford
- DOE plans to extend major Portsmouth, Paducah contracts
- Defense reply due next month in latest suit against Portsmouth contractors
- UCOR seeks to move Riggs COVID-19 case to federal appeals court
- Wrap Up: Comments sought on Los Alamos power line; lab snow delays work; Centrus board member exits
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- Cleanup contractors receive mostly positive reviews from DOE in latest scorecards
- Survey says, current crop of DOE cleanup field managers in place six years or fewer
- DOE seeks qualifications of potential carbon-free power producers
- Environmental Management expects trickle of RFPs in 1H 2024
- Idaho TRU shipments rise with full staffing, older drums draw attention
- Los Alamos votes to stay local and promote No. 2 to county manager
- Status hearing set Jan. 5 in suit against EPA over Oak Ridge landfill
- Wrap up: WIPP shaft work still suspended; Paducah removes more Freon; LATA hails new branding
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- Environmental field boss at Los Alamos to become NNSA’s Savannah River Site manager
- Congress passes fiscal ‘24 NDAA; nuclear weapons get more, nuclear cleanup stays flat
- DOE issues RFI, schedules Nevada clean energy industry day in February
- IWTU should return to service early in new year, DOE says
- WIPP continues to have best post-accident shipment year in 2023
- DOE issues draft solicitation for tech services at Portsmouth and Paducah
- Supreme Court agrees to vacate ruling against Biden’s contractor vax mandate
- UCOR replies to amended COVID lawsuit from ex employee
- Contractor Boston Government makes management appointments
- Wrap up: SRS awards contracts; NRC backs Oak Ridge reactor; Los Alamos takes snow day; Nuke agencies on naughty list?; and more
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- NDAA conference report keeps defense cleanup at $7B; omits worker compensation item
- Cleanup office could ink H-Canyon deals with other DOE branches, Department of Commerce
- DNFSB chair, board should leave small stuff to senior staff, Inspector General says
- DOE, EPA agree some Building 324 cleanup can continue as comment sought
- Hanford treatment plant simulates waste solidification, makes and packs glass cylinder
- Hanford has pretreated nearly 800K gallons of waste, DOE manager says in update
- Businesses merging with Amentum credited with over one-third of Jacobs revenue
- Hanford’s clean energy role will chiefly be landlord
- Wrap up: DNFSB met with congress, public in 2023; DOE offers $19M for cleanup community grants; TVA helps Oak Ridge go carbon-free and more
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- Amentum-Jacobs combo assured of winning share of Hanford tank biz, regardless of lawsuit outcome
- Post-merger, most megabuck cleanup contracts to be captained by partners with publicly-traded parent
- DOE, WIPP prime probe Nov. 20 utility shaft accident
- EPA begins public input process that could clear way for DOE’s Hanford Test Bed Initiative
- Hanford landlord seeks sub for 100 Area electric infrastructure upgrade
- Portsmouth-Paducah DUF6 bidders keep offers open into December
- Federal judge clears way for trial in a COVID-19 suit against UCOR
- Plaintiffs dwindle in Oak Ridge Lab COVID case prior to April 2024 trial
- West Valley final RFP not expected before January
- Policy maker-presidential adviser Henry Kissinger dies at age 100
- Wrap Up: EPA focuses on LANL water discharges; INL staffer personal info hacked; Los Alamos county reveals manager finalists
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- Amentum to merge with Jacobs’ government biz, creating publicly-traded company
- Earnings fall, but revenue up as Jacobs as announces merger with Amentum
- Work crews starting commissioning for WIPP’s major ventilation project
- Most DNFSB staff respect the top bosses; work remotely much of the time
- Much work left to do on Oak Ridge Mercury Treatment Facility, DOE says
- Steel frame takes shape for SRS research center at South Carolina-Aiken
- Wrap Up: Poneman exits, Vexler enters Centrus; Orano USA taps new CEO from within; Hanford paper records center closing
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- With Jacobs earnings in sight, published report revives talk of Amentum deal
- Latest stopgap funding deal keeps DOE cleanup near fiscal 2023 levels into new year
- UCOR taking over construction, completion of Oak Ridge mercury facility
- Legacy TRU waste work winding down at SRS, contractor says
- Small biz draft RFP could be out soon for for Portsmouth-Paducah tech support
- Timeline extended by DOE for clean energy information at Savannah River
- WIPP shipments level off in October, still well ahead of 2022 pace
- Ex-Hanford worker, brother sentenced to 12 years in prison for drug trafficking
- Nearly 700K gallons of Hanford tank waste prepared for solidification; cesium questions remain
- GAO planning several nuclear reports, including one with international scope
- Wrap Up: Hanford disaster drill found lacking; NuSclae has plans for canceled reactors; Pantex bidder vetting underway; Piketon, Ohio mayor Spencer re-elected
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- Federal judge declines to certify class action in COVID suit against UCOR
- Organizational ‘culture’ challenges remain at DNFSB, Inspector General finds
- DOE takes comment on disposing of calcine storage bins as low-level waste
- Hanford to start testing second low-activity-waste melter in December
- North Wind appoints Driggs as new CEO
- NRDC curbs its nuclear watchdog role amid reported belt-tightening
- Man arrested in South Carolina after after-hours breach of Oconee nuclear plant grounds
- Federal judge in Idaho considers whether to toss county suit over INL waste storage
- Hundreds of feral hogs killed; eaten by vultures at Savannah River Site
- Hawley wants EPA urgency on West Lake Landfill cleanup
- Amentum manager, 55, dies in auto accident in Washington state
- Wrap Up: Cleanup office explores AI; WIPP’s new permit takes effect; GAO planning H Canyon report; Centrus delivers first HALEU
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- Portsmouth-Paducah bidders asked to keep proposals open through mid-November
- Trio of Environmental Management bosses ditch ‘acting’ titles
- Hanford draft clean energy RFP could be out soon
- Group contesting $45B Hanford tank waste contract files GAO protest, gets court extension
- Short-handed DNFSB hires Export-Import manager to lead operations
- Fluor reports rise in earnings with procurement activity in DOE weapons complex
- Bechtel responds to DOE Inspector General on waste treatment plant cost estimates
- DOE greenlights transition to new Occupational Medical contractor for Hanford
- BWXT earnings rise in third quarter
- Wrap Up: Moab hits 14 million tons; groups seek EPA nuke waste rewrite; site prep underway for Idaho disposal cell; Portsmouth panel goes live; retired Hanford figure dies
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- Hanford tank contract rivals file revised bids with DOE; AtkinsRéalis seeks appeals court delay
- Speaker in place, House passes key nuclear funding bill with $8.3B for EM
- Senate panel endorses Lee for DNFSB after board loses quorum
- Enviro group seeking EPA documents behind Oak Ridge landfill approval
- Huff hopes first Idaho clean energy project is chosen within a year
- Component replacement during IWTU outage will stretch over several weeks
- Idaho shipments to WIPP could decline in 2024 as budget limbo plays factor
- WIPP utility shaft hits paydirt, nearly 2,300 feet deep
- Decontamination showers dispute won’t stymie Hanford disposal permit
- After final RFP, DOE to interview key personnel of West Valley bidders in person
- Aptim-Amentum team wins $96M contract to take down old reactor in Alaska
- Former DOE cleanup lead tapped as interim engineering dean at Florida International University
- Wrap Up: Higher SWPF output sought in 2024; Paducah adds more EV chargers; Piketon mayor slot contested
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- Hanford’s pre-treated waste might not meet vit plant criteria
- Small, woman-owned Virginia biz claims $208M Hanford occupational health contract
- DOE kicks off clean energy market research at Idaho, Savannah River
- WIPP continues brisk shipment pace in September
- Holtec exec upbeat on nuclear operations; USEA panelists discuss small modular reactors
- GAO wants Army Corps to get a handle on rising FUSRAP liability
- 9th Circuit panel considers if Sandia scientist’s retirement was voluntary
- Wrap Up: Fluor unit lands UK contract, indictment alleges nuclear parts kickbacks, study out on culling wild pigs around SRS
- No new recliner: 30 minutes with Jessie Hill Roberson, DNFSB, retired
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