RadWaste Vol. 7 No. 42 Perma-Fix Performance Improves in Third Quarter
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Cleanup & Remediation
USACE Issues RFP For $100 Million Luckey Remediation Contract
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 11/7/2014 The Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District issued a solicitation this week for remediation services at its Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program site in Luckey, Ohio. The contract for environmental remediation services and ancillary construction to support the cleanup is worth up to $100 million over 10 years, […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
US Ecology Experiences Better Than Expected 3Q
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 11/7/2014 U.S. Ecology announced better than expected third quarter financial results this week, with positive net income and operating income. During the third quarter, the company’s net income was $13.3 million, up from $10.3 million earned in the same period in 2013. Operating income was $26.8 million, up from $15.5 […]
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Defense Low-Level Waste
DOE Issues Draft RFP for LLW and MLW Treatment Contracts
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 11/7/2014 The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management late last week issued a draft Request for Proposal for new contracts to provide low-level waste and mixed-low level waste treatment services. The current set of Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity-type contracts for waste treatment services ends in June 2015. DOE intends to […]
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International
Canada Extends Deadline for Chalk River RFRE Submittals
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 11/7/2014 Natural Resources Canada has extended the deadline for submittals to the Request for Response Evaluation on the government’s procurement to manage Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s nuclear laboratories, the agency said last week. The deadline of Sept. 9, an extension from the previous Aug. 6 deadline, and the Oct. […]
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Decommissioning
Barge Reactor Decommissioning Draws Local Pushback
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 11/7/2014 A lack of an Environmental Impact Statement for the Army Corps of Engineers’ decommissioning of the Sturgis barge in Galveston, Texas, has the local city council up-in-arms over the Corps’ handling of the project. The Corps issued a contract to CB&I Federal Services earlier this year for the dismantlement […]
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International
Fukushima Cleanup Reaches Fuel Removal Milestone
TEPCO Making Progress on Water Contamination Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 11/7/2014 The Tokyo Electric Power Company this week completed the transfer of spent fuel assemblies from the Fukushima Daii-chi Unit 4 spent fuel pool. In what TEPCO deemed “a sold step forward” in decommissioning the plant, the company moved 1,331 fuel assemblies to a […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Utah Schedules Public Comment Period for Depleted Uranium for New Year
Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 11/7/2014 While EnergySolutions had asked for a two-month extension back in September before the public comment period began on Utah’s review of the company’s performance assessment for the disposal of depleted uranium at its Clive, Utah, disposal site, it appears that public comment period will not begin until the new […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Wrap Up
RW Monitor 11/7/2014 IN THE NRC Stephen Burns was officially sworn in as a new member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week. Burns previously worked at the NRC for more than 30 years, rising to General Counsel under then-Chairman Gregory Jaczko, but left in 2012 for a position with the Nuclear Energy Agency. Burns […]