Weapons Complex Vol. 27 No. 1 Classification a Concern in Taking Down Oak Ridge Plant
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
DUF6 Plants Operator Gets Contract Extension
Chris Schneidmiller WC Monitor 1/8/2016 The operator of the depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion (DUF6) plants at Paducah, Ky., and Portsmouth, Ohio, has received a contract extension of up to nine months, the Department of Energy Office of Environmental… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up
WC Monitor 1/8/2016 IN DOE Final preparations are being made for demolition of the former K-27 uranium enrichment plant at Oak Ridge, Tenn., the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced. The building is the last of five structures… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
While We Were Out
Congress was out and Washington was empty, but that didn’t stop news from breaking during our annual holiday publication break. As chronicled in the Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, here are a few stories that we’ve been following. DOE Formally Begins… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Transuranic Waste
At Carlsbad
WC Monitor 1/8/2016 Employee Found Dead at WIPP The Eddy County, N.M., Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death last month of a Waste Isolation Pilot Plant worker at the facility. Robert Staffel, 62, appears to have died of natural causes, according to… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
At Savannah River
WC Monitor 1/8/2016 Progress Reported at SRS Defense Waste Processing Facility The Savannah River Site’s Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) is quickly approaching the halfway mark in its lifetime of producing canisters filled with radioactive glass,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
DOE Initiates Deep Borehole Rad Waste Storage Test Project
Chris Schneidmiller WC Monitor 1/8/2016 Initial preparations have begun on a Department of Energy project to drill a 16,000-foot borehole in North Dakota to test the use of such formations for storage of high-level radioactive waste, lead contractor Battelle… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Transuranic Waste
DOE Plan Reaffirms 2016 WIPP Reopening
Chris Schneidmiller WC Monitor 1/8/2016 The new comprehensive recovery plan for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant now being finalized says with 80 percent confidence that the transuranic waste storage site will reopen for business in late 2016, a senior Department… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Hundreds of N.M. Hazard Waste Permit Breaches Found at LANL
Staff Reports WC Monitor 1/8/2015 The New Mexico Environment Department in a recent report said it found 421 instances of noncompliance by the Los Alamos National Laboratory with its state hazardous waste facility permit in fiscal 2015. That was up significantly… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Decommissioning
Portsmouth Plant Gets Good Marks for Waste Management
Chris Schneidmiller WC Monitor 1/8/2016 The company carrying out the decontamination and decommissioning of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS) in Ohio is largely meeting Department of Energy rules for management of radioactive waste, according to… 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
FY16 Budget Boosts Hanford Funding
Staff Reports WC Monitor 1/8/2016 The Hanford Site fiscal 2016 appropriation signed into law is $78.7 million more than requested by the Obama administration and is higher than the fiscal 2015 budget. It totals $2.3 billion. “The federal government has… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Hanford Waste Tank Declared Empty to Reg Standards
Staff Reports WC Monitor 1/8/2016 Another Hanford C Farm radioactive waste storage tank has been declared empty to regulatory standards, with work to continue on two additional C Farm tanks. The 2010 consent decree between Washington state and the Department… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
UCOR Gets a Good Report Card
Staff Reports WC Monitor 1/8/2016 The Department of Energy lauded URS-CH2M Oak Ridge’s (UCOR) work as cleanup manager for the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee for the final half of fiscal 2015 and awarded the contractor fees totaling about $4.5 million. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE Sites Collaborate on Mercury Cleanup
Staff Reports WC Monitor 1/8/2016 Contractors at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge and Savannah River sites have joined together to tackle mercury cleanup problems. Anne Smith, a spokeswoman for URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR), DOE’s cleanup contractor… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
LANL EM Office Authorizes Remedy for Chromium Plume
Staff Reports WC Monitor 1/8/2016 The Department of Energy is moving to begin containing and cleaning up a growing plume of hexavalent chromium in the regional aquifer under the Los Alamos National Laboratory. After nine years of slow but incremental attention… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]