Vol. 27, No. 41 
Workers Contaminated in Hanford Tank Farm Pit
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Cleanup & Remediation
Washington Gov. Spars With Challenger on Hanford
Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee defended his administration’s use of litigation in dealing with the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site against criticism from his Republican challenger at a debate Wednesday. Inslee’s administration has litigated a reopening… 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
Hanford Site Vapor Info Website Updated
Washington River Protection Solutions has redesigned and expanded its website with information for the public and Hanford Site workers on chemical vapors at the Department of Energy facility’s waste tank farms. A team of union, professional, and management employees… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Transuranic Waste
DOE Wants to Start WIPP Closure Work By December
After the surprise announcement that it will close part of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and sacrifice several football fields’ worth of storage space in the process, the Energy Department this week told local officials it could start pulling out of the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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National Laboratories
LANL Inches Closer to Nitrate Salt Treatment at Area G
By spring, the Energy Department should be ready to make safe a tranche of the same kind of potentially explosive transuranic waste that leaked radiation into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant more than two years ago. The waste, known as inappropriately remediated… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation President Departing
The president of CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. (CHPRC) at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state is taking a job with CH2M’s corporate office and will be replaced by an executive from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. John… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
CH2M Reorg Could Mean More Management Changes Across DOE Complex
There could be more leadership changes at Energy Department sites with a CH2M Hill Co. presence, thanks to a corporate-level reorganization that has already precipitated a top-spot swap at DOE’s main solid-waste contractor for the Hanford Site in Washington state. CH2M… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE Marks Cleanup First at Former Plutonium Test Site in Nevada
The Energy Department said Thursday it has marked a major milestone on cleanup of the Double Tracks plutonium dispersal site in Nevada, which after 20 years the agency has cleaned up to U.S. Air Force standards. Double Tracks, located north of DOE’s Nevada National… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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Contracts & Procurement
DOE Seeking Information for Next SRS Management Contract
The chase to run the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina after 2018 is unofficially on after the agency on Monday released a request for information that will shape a procurement of a follow-on deal to the facility’s current $9.5-billion… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Former SRR Employee Loses Discrimination Case
A federal judge recently ruled in favor of Savannah River Remediation (SRR) in a discrimination case in which a former employee alleged he was mistreated as the only white man working with several black employees. Roman Moss first alleged on Sept. 29, 2014, that… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Despite Safety Breach, DOE Sees Little Risk in Contaminated Paducah Piping
Fluor Federal Services, prime contractor for deactivation of the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky, got a wag of the finger from the Energy Department over a breach of criticality safeguards last year involving a pipe containing potentially damp… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]