Vol. 27, No. 24

High-Level & Tank Waste

Construction Complete, but Hard Work Just Starting on SWPF

WASHINGTON — After eight years of construction that cost nearly $1.3 billion, Parsons Government Services has finished building the Salt Waste Processing Facility at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Now, the facility’s project… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]
  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Charboneau Tagged as EM Field Office Czar Under Proposed Reorganization

    As part of a proposed reorganization of the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management (EM), Stacy Charboneau, manager of DOE’s Richland Operations Office at the Hanford Site, would move from Washington state to Washington, D.C., and become head… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    WIPP Could Start Accepting New Waste Shipments in February

    Shipments of transuranic (TRU) waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M., could resume from across the Department of Energy complex as soon as February, an official told members of a DOE-chartered citizens group Tuesday. “TRU shipments… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Revised Central Hanford Cleanup Milestones Approved

    The Tri-Party agencies have approved extending milestones for much of the central Hanford Site cleanup work under the Department of Energy Richland Operations Office, but not before incorporating changes in response to public comments. The Tri-Party agencies –… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

  • Vitrification & Grout

    DOE Says WTP Redesign Would Eliminate Possible Explosions

    Design changes intended to prevent an explosion at the High-Level Waste Facility under construction as part of the Waste Treatment Plant at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., were both adequate and properly vetted, according to an agency… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Hanford-Area Counties Face PILT Shortfall

    The Department of Energy at the Hanford Site in Washington state has notified local counties that it may be able to pay only 20 percent of the counties’ bills for payments in lieu of taxes this year. DOE signed an agreement with the three counties that include… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Little Cut in Washington Could Mean Big Headache for SRS Salt Waste

    It is sometimes difficult to feel the ripple of a $10 million tweak to a $30-billion appropriations bill, but at a citizens-group meeting near the Savannah River Site (SRS) this week, an executive with the Department of Energy’s prime liquid-waste contractor… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Y-12 Mercury Cleanup Cost Projected at Up to $3B

    The mercury cleanup at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Tennessee could cost up to $3 billion, according to an estimate in a newly released Department of Energy report. The report, which is dated February 2016, focuses on the technology plans to address the extensive… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must […]

  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    At SRS: Plugging Leaks, Salt Milestone

    One leak-plugging effort is underway at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site (SRS), and another did not quite work out as planned, the agency’s prime liquid waste cleanup contractor at the facility near Aiken, S.C., told a DOE-chartered citizens… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    At WIPP: Incumbents, Others Eyeing New Waste Transport Contract

    Just short of a dozen people representing nine firms showed up to a site tour and pre-solicitation conference for a follow-on transuranic waste shipping contract June 1 and 2, according to an attendee list posted online by the Department of Energy. The new Waste… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Wrap Up: Bechtel in Bechtel Hands Once More

    Brendan Bechtel, great-great grandson of the founder of San Francisco-based construction giant Bechtel, will replace Bill Dudley as the company’s chief executive officer effective Sept. 1, topping a list of senior-management changes on the way for one of… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]

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