Weapons Complex Vol. 27 No. 3

Cleanup & Remediation

Watchdog Group to Sue DOE, LANL, Over Blown Cleanup Deadline

Dan Leone WC Monitor 1/22/2016 Nuclear Watch New Mexico said this week it intends to sue the Energy Department and contractor Los Alamos National Security in federal court for blowing a cleanup deadline at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Under a legally binding 2005 consent order between DOE, the New Mexico Environment Department, and […]
  • Vitrification & Grout

    At Savannah River

    WC Monitor 1/22/2016 Grouting Begins for SRS Tank 12 A three-month process has begun to grout and close Tank 12 at the Savannah River Site, continuing a longstanding effort to rid South Carolina of more than 30 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste. SRS announced Tuesday that its liquid waste contractor, Savannah River Remediation (SRR), […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Y-12 Contractor Could Drain Alpha-5’s Flooded Basement

    Staff Reports WC Monitor 1/22/2016 The Y-12 site’s Alpha-5 Building has been characterized as the “worst of the worst” of the excess facilities awaiting cleanup at Department of Energy sites around the country, and deactivation and decommissioning of the highly contaminated, highly deteriorated site is still years from happening. However, Consolidated Nuclear Security – the […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    DOE Approves New WIPP Restart Plan

    Chris Schneidmiller WC Monitor 1/22/2016 The Department of Energy on Thursday said it had officially determined that transuranic waste emplacement operations should begin in December of this year at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. The date is set in a new integrated performance baseline measurement (PMB) approved by the DOE’s Carlsbad Field […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    DOE Must Re- Evaluate WIPP Storage Suitability, Stanford Researchers Warn

    The possibility of storing excess plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M., coupled with increased oil and gas drilling in the area, mean the Energy Department needs to re-evaluate the safety of the world’s only open transuranic waste storage facility, according to Stanford University researchers. Those factors, along with a pair […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Judge Combines Hanford Chemical Vapor Lawsuits

    Staff Reports WC Monitor 1/22/2016 A federal judge this week combined two lawsuits filed against the Department of Energy and its Hanford Site waste storage tank farm contractor over worker protection from chemical vapors. Lawsuits were filed in September by the state of Washington and by Hanford Challenge filing jointly with Plumbers and Steamfitters Local […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Savannah River Contractor Gets 82% of Award Fee for 2015

    Dan Leone WC Monitor 1/22/2016 Savannah River Nuclear River Solutions (SRNS) in fiscal 2015 earned a $37.8 million fee on its Savannah River Site management and operations contract with the Energy Department, or 82 percent of what it could have earned, DOE announced late Tuesday. The company — an industry team comprised of Fluor, Honeywell […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Hanford Tank Farm Contractor Gets 88% of Award Fee

    Staff Reports WC Monitor 1/22/2016 Washington River Protection Solutions, the Hanford Site tank farm contractor, has received 88 percent of the award fee available for fiscal 2015, or just over $13.7 million out of $15.6 million. The fee is in addition to an award of 100 percent of the $14.4 million available as performance-based incentives […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Project Hits Halfway Mark

    Chris Schneidmiller WC Monitor 1/22/2016 Eight million tons of uranium mill tailings have been extracted from the Moab site in Utah through the Department of Energy’s Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project as of this week. That is half of the roughly 16 million tons of tailings from the former uranium ore processing site that […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Hanford Fire Department Worker Tests Positive for Radioactive Uptake

    Staff Reports WC Monitor 1/22/2016 A Hanford Fire Department employee who handled potentially contaminated vortex coolers used at the Hanford Site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant has received a preliminary positive result for radioactive uptake. Preliminary bioassay results for eight other fire department employees were negative. Results are pending for 101 additional Hanford workers who have requested […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    At Oak Ridge

    WC Monitor 1/22/2016 Waste Shipments Temporarily Halted at Oak Ridge Off-site waste shipments from Oak Ridge were put on hold for a month last year after “deficiencies” were identified in the shipments made by URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR), the Department of Energy’s cleanup manager for the Tennessee facility. DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Wrap Up

    WC Monitor 1/22/2016 AT DOE Portsmouth Mission Alliance of Idaho Falls, Idaho, will provide infrastructure support services at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, under a Department of Energy contract worth up to $140 million over about five years, the agency announced Jan. 15. Under the firm-fixed-price deal, Portsmouth Mission Alliance will provide […]

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