Vol. 27, No. 8 
Contractors Involved In WIPP Accidents Get Citations, but No Fines, From DOE
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Cleanup & Remediation
Advisory Board Knocks New Central Hanford Cleanup Milestones
New milestones being proposed by the Tri-Party Agreement agencies for central Hanford remediation operations are unprecedented, only extending cleanup and not offering any project acceleration to balance that, according to the Hanford Advisory Board. It has sent… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Decommissioning
Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant Gets New Managers
New management has been assigned to the Hanford Site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant and work is being rescheduled after continuing safety problems. “Over the past few months, we’ve experienced a number of safety-related events that, while they didn’t cause… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Industry Preps for Fight Over Proposed Uranium Cleanup ‘Tax’
Industry is again girding for a policy fight over a White House proposal to partially fund legacy uranium cleanup in Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee with private contributions that professional groups are calling a new tax on nuclear power. At issue is the White… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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National Laboratories
LANL Environmental Budget Falls Short of State Hopes
At $189 million, the $4 million requested increase for Los Alamos National Laboratory environmental management operations for fiscal 2017 is smaller than some in the state hoped to see. Stakeholders for the Department of Energy facility, including Ryan Flynn, New… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Naval Nuclear Propulsion
Huntington Ingalls’ Earnings Down Slightly in Quarter, Up For 2015
Defense contractor Huntington Ingalls on Thursday reported a slight drop in year-over-year net earnings for its latest quarter but a significant spike in full-year income. Fourth-quarter net income dropped from $52 million in fourth-quarter 2014 to $50 million… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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National Laboratories
At Oak Ridge
DOE Oak Ridge Office Management in Flux At least three executive positions – including the top two – are up for grabs at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office in an unusually unsteady management situation. The situation was created by losses at the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
At Savannah River
Action Plan Developed Following Grouting of SRS Storage Tank An interim action plan that has been developed for Tank 16 at the Savannah River Site highlights what will happen from now until a final remedial action is determined for all of the tanks in the H-Area… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
At Portsmouth
Ohio Lawmakers Call on Feds to Restore American Centrifuge Funding The Ohio House of Representatives on Wednesday officially petitioned the federal government to restore funding the Department of Energy cut last year for a uranium enrichment centrifuge project… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
At Hanford
Final Hanford Downwinders Case Dismissal Appealed Dismissal of the final claim from the 1991 Hanford Site downwinders litigation has been appealed to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals after U.S. Disgtrict Judge William Fremming Nielsen moved to declare all… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Wrap Up
DOE to Begin Consent-Based Nuclear Waste Storage Meetings in Chicago The Energy Department said Thursday it will hold the first of eight public meetings on its consent-based nuclear waste siting initiative March 29 in Chicago at the University of Chicago Conference Center. In the eight meetings, DOE will “seek input from the public on designing […]
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Transuranic Waste
Clarification
A Feb. 12 story in the Weapons Complex Monitor should have said Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has discussed interring 34 metric tons of weapons-usable plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., but has not formally proposed doing so. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]