Weapons Complex Vol. 25 No. 48 DOE Outlines New Plans to Further Improve Project Management
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Budget & Policy
EM-1 Nominee Will Have to Start Over in Congress Next Year
Congress Adjourns Without Voting on Choice to Head Cleanup Program Mike Nartker WC Monitor 12/19/2014 Monica Regalbuto’s nomination to serve as the next Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management has been returned to the White House after… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
SRS Funding Cuts Cause DOE to Assess Impacts to Programs
Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 12/19/2014 The Department of Energy is still assessing potential impacts to Savannah River Site projects and workers after cleanup funds were cut about $29 million below the DOE request in the Fiscal Year 2015 spending bill recently… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Budget & Policy
WC Monitor Rates 2014’s ‘Winners and Losers’
WC Monitor 12/19/2014 WINNERS Fluor: Fluor saw major contracting success this year, leading a team that won the Department of Energy’s new Paducah deactivation contract and being part of a team that won a new contract to manage the United Kingdom’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Budget & Policy
Publication Notice
Please note: the offices of EXCHANGEMONITOR PUBLICATIONS will be closed from Dec. 24 through Jan. 4. The Weapons Complex Morning Briefing will be published Dec. 22-23, and the next full issue of Weapons Complex Monitor will be on your desk Jan. 9. We will issue… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Layoffs at Portsmouth Cancelled After Funding Boost
Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 12/19/2014 After months of uncertainty regarding hundreds of potential layoffs for Portsmouth cleanup workers, contractor Fluor B&W Portsmouth, LLC, cancelled the workforce reduction planned for this week after the site received… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
UED&D Fund Remains on Track to be Exhausted in 2020, Draft DOE Report Says
Mike Nartker WC Monitor 12/19/2014 A federal fund used to help cover cleanup costs at the Oak Ridge, Paducah and Portsmouth sites remains on track to be empty by Fiscal Year 2020, at which point the Department of Energy will need to find other Congressional funding… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You […]
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Budget & Policy
Senate Approves New DNFSB Member
Board Chairman Winokur to Retire Jan. 3 Mike Nartker WC Monitor 12/19/2014 In one of its last actions before adjourning for the year, the Senate this week approved the White House’s choice of Daniel Santos to serve on the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Non-Proliferation
New Downblending Campaign At Savannah River’s H-Canyon Now Underway
Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 12/19/2014 A new long-term campaign to downblend 1,200 bundles of spent fuel at Savannah River’s H-Canyon is well underway, site officials said this week. In September, the site’s managing contractor, Savannah River Nuclear… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Transuranic Waste
‘Significant Flaws’ Found at LANL TRU Waste Facility, DNFSB Report Says
Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 12/19/2014 The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board has uncovered “significant flaws” in the hazard and accident analyses at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s facility for loading transuranic waste, according to… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. Email or […]
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Decommissioning
PFP Corrective Action Plan Due in January After IG Highlights Delays and Cost Increases
Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 12/19/2014 After delays and cost increases at Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant were highlighted in a recent Department of Energy Office of Inspector General report, DOE has directed cleanup contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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International
U.K. Cleanup Focus
Dounreay Site Completion Pushed Out Four Years Due to Addition of Scope Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 12/18/2014 The completion date for cleanup work at Scotland’s Dounreay site has been pushed out four years to 2029 due to added scope that includes the removal… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
At River Protection
Settlement Reached in Time Card Fraud Case WC Monitor 12/19/2014 Charges related to timecard fraud are expected to be dropped for two former high-level managers and a former supervisor of CH2M Hill Hanford Group after they agreed to pay civil fines, according… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
At Richland
Contractor Requests New Roof for REDOX Plant WC Monitor 12/19/2014 After a failing roof is leading to leaking and contamination migration in the Reduction-Oxidation Plant at Hanford, site cleanup contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Company has requested funding… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
At Savannah River
DOE Should Increase Outreach on SRS Monitoring, Lab Report Finds WC Monitor 12/19/2014 Though existing environmental monitoring programs in South Carolina and Georgia are sufficient to protect the public from potential Savannah River radiological releases, an… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]
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Budget & Policy
Wrap Up
WC Monitor 12/19/2014 IN CONGRESS Congress wrapped up work on the final version of the Fiscal Year 2015 defense authorization bill late last week, with the Senate approving the measure and sending it to President Obama for signature. Among the bill’s provisions… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]