Vol. 27, No. 37 Congress Punts FY 2017 Budget Vote to Next Week
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Budget & Policy
Portsmouth Contractor Confident Congress Will Avert $80M Shortfall for D&D Work
Cleanup of a former gaseous diffusion plant in Ohio would be underfunded by nearly $80 million on an annualized basis and layoffs will be imminent if Congress does not increase funding for the project next week, an Energy Department contractor said Thursday. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Contracts & Procurement
DOE Drops Long-Awaited Solicitation for Next LANL Cleanup Contract
A decades’ worth of cleanup work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), which including options is valued at $1.7 billion, is officially out for bids, the agency’s Office of Environmental Management announced late Wednesday. The work entails cleaning… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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National Laboratories
Criticized LANL Cost Estimate Made Public
The city of Santa Fe, N.M., on Sept. 16 made public a Department of Energy report that says it will take about 20 years and cost up to $4 billion for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management to clean up some 5,000 cubic meters of Cold War-era nuclear waste at… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex […]
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National Laboratories
LANL Cleanup Agreement a Model for the Complex, DOE Says
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — With its budget for legacy nuclear cleanup squeezed, the Energy Department thinks remediation projects across the country could benefit from a change in strategy similar to what was laid out this summer in an expansive new framework approved… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Vapor Protections Could Extend Hanford Waste Tank Emptying Schedule
Possible actions to protect Hanford Site workers from chemical vapors could result in missed milestones under the Department of Energy consent decree mandate with Washington state for emptying single-shell waste storage tanks, according to a preliminary report.… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Hanford Contractor Nearly Finishes Emptying Tanks in C Farm
Washington River Protection Solutions has emptied the 15th of 16 waste tanks in the Hanford Site’s C Tank Farm to regulatory standards. A court-enforced consent decree deadline requires the last of the C Farm tanks to be emptied to regulatory standards by March… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Company Ordered to Pay Hanford Whistleblowers $216,080
Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) has been ordered to pay $216,080 in back pay and compensation to two whistleblowers it removed from the job in 2012. The computer specialist employees had raised issues with a new electronic medical system when CSC held the Hanford… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
WTP Power Station Online, Bechtel Says
The electrical utility building that eventually will feed power to crucial liquid waste treatment systems at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., has been tied to its permanent electrical power source in what contractor Bechtel National… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Non-Proliferation
State Filing in MOX Lawsuit Points to WIPP Timeline
The state of South Carolina appears to hope a letter sent out by the Energy Department that addresses the timeline for new nuclear waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) will buffer the state’s argument that the federal government should continue… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Hearing Scheduled on SRNS Motion to Dismiss Overcharging Lawsuit
A U.S. District Court judge will hear arguments next month on whether to dismiss the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit alleging Fluor Federal Services and Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) overcharged the government by more than $5 million for home office… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Assessment: SRS Properly Maintaining Radiation Limits at Waste Facilities
A new Energy Department assessment of waste disposal practices at the Savannah River Site concluded that radiation doses are being maintained within appropriate limits and should not pose threats to the public or facility personnel. The Energy Department’s Office… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
DNFSB Staffs Up, Replaces Top Lawyer, and Adds CIO
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board said this week it has bulked up its technical staff, bringing the headcount at the independent Energy Department watchdog up to 116. Known as DNFSB, the board comprises five civilian members appointed by the president… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Centrus Gets Contract for One More Year of American Centrifuge Work
Centrus Energy, of Bethesda, Md., said Thursday it has received a one-year, $25 million contract from UT-Battelle to continue the experimental uranium enrichment program known as the American Centrifuge at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The American… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Transuranic Waste
At WIPP: New Mexico Eases Airflow Restrictions
The New Mexico Environment Department on Monday approved the Energy Department’s request to ease airflow restrictions in the deep-underground Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: a move the agency says will help ensure smoother waste disposal operations at the mine,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
CORRECTION
An article in the Sept. 16 edition of Weapons Complex Monitor should have said the Department of Energy is overseeing the downblending of 6 metric tons of weapon-usable plutonium at Savannah River Site, which is scheduled to begin this month. SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]