Vol. 27, No. 16 Legacy DOE Waste Cleanup Fares Best Under Senate Budget
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Congress Spurns White House Uranium Cleanup Plan
Spending bills unveiled this week unambiguously torpedoed the White House’s plan to pay for cleanup of former uranium enrichment facilities with new mandatory spending and new fees on commercial nuclear power. The House and Senate proposals differ on how much… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE Considers Appealing Hanford Consent Decree Ruling
The Department of Energy is considering appealing U.S. Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson’s order amending the Hanford Site consent decree, according to court documents requesting a transcript of Malouf Peterson’s closed-door discussions with a panel of three technical… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
High Bridge Stands By Its Science as Former Senator Rips Firm’s Report
Former Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) on Monday laid into a report commissioned by the Department of Energy’s lead MOX fuel facility contractor that questioned the suitability of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant as a storage site for downblended plutonium. In… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
South Carolina Seeks Summary Judgment in MOX Lawsuit
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson wants a faster resolution and no trial in the state’s pursuit of $100 million and the removal of plutonium from the Savannah River Site – both of which are stipulations dating to 2003 when South Carolina agreed… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
SRNS Exits Deliberate Ops
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) on Monday officially exited a reduced work phase, or deliberate operations, that was implemented after the company wrapped up an operational safety pause last fall. Now, the Savannah River Site management and operations contractor… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
At Hanford: Bechtel Gets 66 Percent of 2015 Award Fee
Bechtel National of San Francisco earned $8.3 million in award fees from the Energy Department for its work last year on the Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash. — two-thirds of the total possible award, according to a document… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
At Savannah River: Parsons Gets DOE Kudos for Work on Salt Waste Processing Facility
Parsons said April 8 the Salt Waste Processing Facility it is building at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C., received a Secretarial Department of Energy Award for Project Management Improvement on March 23. The award cites the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]
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Transuranic Waste
At WIPP: NWP Earns Close to 75 Percent of Possible Fee in FY 2015
Nuclear Waste Partnership, prime contractor for the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) disposal facility near Carlsbad, N.M., said Thursday it earned about $2.5 million in fees in fiscal 2015, good for almost 75 percent of the possible award. Todd Shrader, head of DOE’s Carlsbad Field Office, said in a letter the company […]