Vol. 27, No. 31 ‘Equipment Issue’ Means More Waste-Disposal Dress Rehearsals at WIPP
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Cleanup & Remediation
Outgoing New Mexico Environment Secretary Reflects on His Run
Outgoing New Mexico Environment Secretary Ryan Flynn says he’s going to have a late-morning coffee and a midafternoon beer after his three-and-a-half-year tenure in Gov. Susana Martinez’s (R) Cabinet officially ends on Aug. 12. There’s a nap planned, too, the 38-year-old, soon-to-be former Cabinet secretary told Weapons Complex Monitor Tuesday in a brief farewell telephone interview. […]
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Transuranic Waste
DNFSB Wants Heads-Up If Commercially Stored LANL TRU Waste Is Moved
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) wants a heads-up before the Energy Department transfers a problematic batch of transuranic waste from a commercial storage facility in Texas to a DOE defense nuclear site such as the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Moreover, according to a letter dated July 29 from DNFSB Chairman Joyce Connery to […]
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Transuranic Waste
LANL Dialing Up Wildfire Protection for Problematic Nitrate Salt Waste
The Energy Department is creeping closer to implementing new safeguards that will allow the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) Area G transuranic waste processing facility to resume full operations and continue treatment of the problematic waste stream that caused a radiation leak at the underground Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) two years ago. According to […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Another Vapor Incident Reported at Hanford
Personnel were ordered to leave a Hanford Site tank farm Wednesday morning and access was restricted after three workers reported smelling odors consistent with chemical vapors associated with tank waste. The incident occurred despite Hanford tank farm contractor Washington River Protection Solutions complying with a federal court order issued Tuesday in an effort to prevent […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
State Fines Still Possible Over SRS Salt Waste Facility
Millions of dollars in fines are still possible over missed milestones at the Savannah River Site’s Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF), though South Carolina regulators will not confirm or deny if they’ll impose the penalties after nearly a year of meetings with the federal government on the issue. The Savannah River Site celebrated the facility’s […]
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Contracts & Procurement
DOE Exercises Last Options on SRS Prime Ops Contract
The Energy Department said Thursday it has pulled the trigger on the final two options of Savannah River Nuclear Solutions’ management and operations contract for the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C., keeping the partnership on the job for almost two more years of work. The options just exercised are the last two on the deal and […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Fluor Misses Earnings Target in 2Q
Fluor Corp. missed its mark for second-quarter earnings Thursday, posting a profit of $102 million, or 72 cents a share, down almost 30 percent from a year ago on a pair of underperforming projects unrelated to the company’s nuclear decommissioning work for the Energy Department. Revenue in the three months ended June 30 was $4.9 […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Huntington Ingalls’ Income Falls in Second Quarter; Environmental Cleanup Volumes Down
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) on Thursday reported lower earnings in its second quarter due to a favorable litigation settlement that inflated the bottom line a year ago, but the company’s operating results were still strong and earnings beat consensus estimates. Net income slid 15 percent to $133 million, $2.80 earnings per share (EPS), from $156 […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Leidos Expects Deal For IS&GS To Close Aug. 16
Leidos on Thursday said it expects to close the transaction for Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems and Global Solutions (IS&GS) business on Aug. 16 and plans to pay its shareholders of record a special cash dividend. The company said the dividend would be $13.64 per share, which will amount to about a $1 billion payment, and is […]
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Decommissioning
Manager of Former UCOR Subcontractor Pleads Guilty to Felony Fraud
The manager of a former subcontractor for UCOR — the URS-CH2M conglomerate priming decontamination and decommissioning at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge site near Oak Ridge, Tenn. — faces five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government, court documents filed July 18 show. Joseph Armes, manager […]
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Decommissioning
Wrap Up: Winner of Small-Biz Competition Will Help Chart Course for Phase 2 Demolition at West Valley
The Energy Department this week issued the final request for proposals for a small-business-only contract to provide technical support for a legally mandated environmental review DOE must conduct before finalizing a two-phase plan to decontaminate and demolish facilities at the West Valley Demonstration Project: a former spent-fuel reprocessing plant in upstate New York. The five-year […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
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