Vol. 27, No. 30 Washington State Asks Judge for Immediate Vapor Protection for Hanford Workers
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Transuranic Waste
DOE Admits WIPP Restart Schedule in Jeopardy
The Energy Department has acknowledged that the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) may not be ready to reopen on Dec. 12 as planned, and the agency is now working to figure out exactly which activities are holding up the restart of operations at the nation’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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Budget & Policy
EM Completes Headquarters Reorganization
The Energy Department said Thursday it completed the reorganization of its Environmental Management (EM) bureaucracy this week, consolidating seven organizational stovepipes into three and bringing the office’s nine field centers under the management of new Washington-based… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Citizens Group Wants New LANL Cleanup Rules Vacated
Nuclear Watch New Mexico wants a federal judge to throw out the newly amended consent order governing cleanup of legacy nuclear waste at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, according to a Tuesday court filing. In an amended complaint to a lawsuit originally filed… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Class Action Lawsuit Planned Over Hanford Pensions
Plans were announced this week to file a federal class action lawsuit against the Department of Energy to recover retirement benefits lost for hundreds of Hanford employees who were moved to Lockheed Martin Services as part of a largely failed economic development… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Hanford Aims to Remove Two PUREX Waste Tanks By April
The Energy Department and Hanford Site contractor CH2M Plateau Remediation have asked the Washington state Ecology Department for permission to uproot two drained waste tanks at the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant, according to a permit modification request… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Defense Low-Level Waste
Hanford Landfill Turns 20
Two decades after the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility (ERDF) opened at the Hanford Site, it has racked up impressive numbers, said Scott Sax, president of Washington Closure Hanford, on Wednesday as officials and workers gathered to mark the anniversary.… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Decommissioning
Paducah Deactivation Solicitation Out as Part of PPPO Procurement Double-Header
The Energy Department on Thursday put out to bid 10 years of deactivation and cleanup work for the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, a former uranium enrichment facility in Kentucky that shut down in 2013. Along with that contract, DOE soft-started a smaller procurement… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Budget & Policy
Congressional Dems Working on Change to Federal Whistleblower Programs
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) believes there may be a legislative fix for the culture of whistleblower retaliation a congressionally chartered report last week said persists across the Energy Department’s nuclear complex. The McCaskill-authored S. 795, “a bill… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
SRS Looks to Restrict Airspace After Drone Flights
The Savannah River Site in South Carolina has begun a process to restrict its airspace in response to the recent sightings of drones flying overhead. Due to the sensitivity of the matter, site officials won’t discuss further details, such as the individual steps… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must […]
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Decommissioning
AECOM Starts Demolition of SPRU Building G2
AECOM subsidiary URS Energy & Construction has begun demolition of the G2 building at the Separations Process Research Unit in Niskayuna, N.Y., the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management said in a Monday press release. The Separations Process… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Decommissioning
UCOR Gets 94 Percent of Award Fee For Six Months Ended March 31
URS CH2M Oak Ridge landed an award of nearly $3.6 million for the six months ended March 31, good for 94 percent of the total available to the prime cleanup contractor for the Energy Department’s former uranium enrichment facilities near Oak Ridge, Tenn.,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE Funds Radiochemistry Research to Aid Cleanup Program
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and three universities have been named new Energy Frontier Research Centers for radiochemistry research to support the Department of Energy’s cleanup program. The DOE Office of Science plans to award $40 million over… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]