Vol. 27, No. 44

Cleanup & Remediation

For Industry, the Song Remains the Same in Trump Administration

Nuclear waste and the billions of dollars the Energy Department spends each year to clean it up do not go away after a presidential campaign — even a grinding, vitriolic campaign like the one Donald Trump won Tuesday —and nobody knows it better than business. As… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must […]
  • Budget & Policy

    Incumbents Cruise in Congressional Races Affecting EM Sites

    The press has been abuzz this week about what, according to the common wisdom, was the surprise election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States. Here’s something not so surprising: All of the congressional races Weapons Complex Monitor looked… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]

  • Decommissioning

    Centrus Cutting Staff in Piketon, Stretching ACP Decommissioning Through 2018

    Centrus Energy Corp., of Bethesda, Md., is stretching out decommissioning and decontamination of the American Centrifuge Project site in Pike County, Ohio, by more than a year, cutting staff and slowing the pace of work there, the company’s chief executive said… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    NWP Back to Work at WIPP

    Energy Department contractor Nuclear Waste Partnership was back on the job preparing to reopen the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) only about two days after the latest rockfall in the deep underground salt mine near Carlsbad, N.M., the agency wrote on its… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    DNFSB Won’t Inspect Sandia Landfill

    The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board has determined it has jurisdiction over the Mixed Waste Landfill at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, but will forgo oversight of the facility, DNFSB Chairman Joyce Connery said in an Oct. 27 letter to… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]

  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    DOE Vet Eschenberg In Charge of Salt at Savannah River Remediation

    Nuclear cleanup veteran John Eschenberg will take charge of salt waste disposition at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site for liquid waste contractor Savannah River Remediation, parent company AECOM announced Thursday. In his new position, Eschenberg… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]

  • Plutonium Pit Production

    SRS Plutonium Metal Ops Restart After Yearlong Pause

    Plutonium metal operations at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site resumed last month, following a yearlong suspension that started with a safety pause induced in September 2015 by facility management and operations contractor Savannah River Nuclear… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]

  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    Hanford Contractor Seals Deal for for Radioactive Capsule Storage

    Hanford Site cleanup contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. has sealed a subcontract for construction of storage containers to hold cesium and strontium capsules. Georgia-based nuclear materials services provider NAC International has received a $23 million… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. […]

  • National Laboratories

    DOE Lab Wins R&D 100 Award for Tech Used at Hanford

    Pacific Northwest National Laboratory technology used at the Hanford Site in Washington state this year received an R&D 100 Award, an annual contest by R&D Magazine sometimes called the “Oscars of Innovation.” The Department of Energy lab developed… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Wash. State Still Waiting on Details of WRPS Worker-Safety Cost Estimate

    Washington state is still waiting for Energy Department contractor Washington River Protection Solutions to show its work on an estimate that equipping workers with respirators and other gear to protect them from vapors at the Hanford Site’s waste storage tank… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle

    DOE Agrees to Sell Uranium to Enrichment Venture at Paducah

    The Energy Department announced Thursday it has agreed to sell depleted uranium to a company that plans to build a $1 billion uranium enrichment facility near the agency’s Paducah Site in Kentucky. The company, GE-Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment (GLE), still… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    EM Facebook Page at 1K Likes and Climbing

    The official Facebook for the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management has hit 1,000 likes. “Thank you to everyone who ‘likes’ EM’s national Facebook page,” the agency’s nuclear cleanup branch said on the social media site. “We recently… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    CORRECTION

    An article in the Nov. 4 edition of Weapons Complex Monitor should have said that Fluor leads Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the management and operations contractor for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site. SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. Email […]

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