Vol. 28, No. 13

Cleanup & Remediation

Legacy Nuclear Cleanup in the Trump Administration: Day 75 of 100

With more of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office gone than remaining, the Energy Department’s Cold War cleanup contractors find themselves — comfortably for now — in the eye of a political storm, shepherded through a prolonged lack of permanent agency leadership by veteran DOE managers. It has been almost a month since […]
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    Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, Pledges Continuity of Operations

    Westinghouse Electric Co., the U.S. nuclear arm of financially imploding Japanese conglomerate Toshiba, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday, raising questions about the storied company’s staying-power in the nuclear decommissioning business even as it pledged… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. […]

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    DOE Says No Third-Party Review for Portsmouth Disposal Facility

    Nearly a year after he made it, the Energy Department shot down a request from the mayor of Piketon, Ohio, to fund a third-party review of thousands of pages of documents that informed the agency’s decision to dispose of waste from uranium-enrichment cleanup… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]

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    Hanford’s McCluskey Room Demolished

      The Hanford Site’s infamous McCluskey Room, the site of the 1976 explosion that injured worker Harold McCluskey, has been demolished. CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. workers finished the project Wednesday, making it the first section of the Plutonium… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

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    Hanford Workers’ Comp Bill Dies in State Senate

      Legislation that would have made Hanford Site workers more likely to be awarded workers’ compensation has failed to pass out of a Washington state Senate committee. The deadline passed Wednesday for Senate committees to send House policy bills to the full… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]

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    Hanford Medical Contractor Gets More Than 90% of 2016 Award Fee

    HPM Corp., the Hanford occupational medical services provider at Hanford, earned 91.7 percent of the fee available in fiscal 2016, according to a notification it received from the Department of Energy last week. It earned $302,610 of the $330,000 available, according… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Trump EPA Cuts Are Bad News for Hanford, State Official Says

    The White House’s proposed budget cuts for the Environmental Protection Agency would dramatically delay the end of nuclear cleanup at the Hanford Site, the head of Washington state’s nuclear cleanup oversight program told lawmakers Wednesday in a Capitol Hill… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

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    Centrus Waiting to Ship American Centrifuge Waste; Says D&D Will be Done A Year Early

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is still reviewing Centrus Energy Corp.’s plans to ship radioactive waste from the canceled American Centrifuge plant in Piketon, Ohio, to the Energy Department’s Nevada National Security Site, throwing a wrench into the company’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

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    DOE Seeks License Renewal for Three Mile Island Waste Storage

    The Department of Energy has applied for a 20-year renewal of the license for storage in Idaho of debris from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, according to documents made public Tuesday. The regulator issued the license for Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI) on March 19, 1999. […]

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    SRS Liquid Waste Processing on Hold for Melter Switch

      Repairs of a key waste processing facility at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site remain on schedule for completion in 2017, but the work is taking a toll on short-term efforts to rid the facility of radioactive waste, officials reaffirmed… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]

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    Correction

    A story in the March 24 issue of Weapons Complex Monitor (“DOE Office Says SRNS Retaliated Against Whistleblower,” Vol. 28, No. 12) should have said a new DOE rule intended to tighten protections for whisteblowers at contractors went into effect March… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]

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