Vol. 28, No. 18

Budget & Policy

EM Gets $6.4B in 2017 Omnibus

The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) got an annualized budget of about $6.4 billion for fiscal 2017, some 3 percent more than last year, under the omnibus spending bill President Donald Trump signed today. The budget passed with more than half of fiscal 2017 already gone, and with only five months to write, […]
  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Portsmouth X-326 Deactivation Could Slip Into 2018

    Fluor-BWXT’s Portsmouth could wait until February 2018 to prep the X-326 uranium enrichment building for teardown, but only if it forgoes 30 percent of its award fee, according to a substantially modified contract the Energy Department released late Thursday. DOE’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office uploaded the modified contract, last altered May 1, to its website in […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    DOE Cuts Yearly Uranium Barter for Portsmouth Cleanup

    Beginning in May, the Energy Department will cut the amount of excess government uranium it will barter to help pay for Cold War cleanup at the Portsmouth site in Ohio, the agency said last week. Even so, there will be no layoffs at the facility near Piketon for at least the rest of fiscal 2017, […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Cleanup Cash Boosts Government Unit’s Earnings at Fluor in 1Q

    Fluor Corp.’s government division got a boost from the company’s nuclear cleanup work at the Energy Department’s Idaho and Portsmouth sites in the first quarter, boosting earnings almost 70 percent to roughly $30 million on revenue of about $765 million: about a 10-percent year-over-year increase. The gains for government were “primarily due to increased contributions from […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    Covert In, Breidenbach Out as President of WIPP Prime

    Bruce Covert has been appointed president of Nuclear Waste Partnership, the prime contractor for the Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, one of the contractor’s parent companies, AECOM, said Thursday. Covert will take over June 10. A nuclear-industry veteran, Covert was most recently AECOM group vice president and project director for waste […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Hands-On Works Resumes on Hanford 324 Building Demolition

    Workers have entered an airlock at the Hanford Site’s 324 Building for the first time in 15 years. It marks the restart of significant hands-on work to demolish the building, after careful planning and practice at a mockup facility built outside of the Department of Energy facility in Washington state. “There really is progress being […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Washington State Skeptical of Hanford Waste Treatment Alternative

      Washington state officials were cool this week to a new government report that could point toward an alternative method for treating radioactive waste stored at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site. Grouting holds promise to effectively treat a portion of the millions of gallons of low-activity radioactive waste stored in tanks at Hanford, the […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    GAO Critiques Energy Department Fraud Mitigation

      The Department of Energy has not used leading practices to manage the risk of fraud and other improper payments to its contractors and subcontractors, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Monday. The report found inconsistent review of invoices, too little data for oversight, and a lack of centralized and detailed policies. “Improper […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    BWXT Reports $428.2M in 1Q Revenue, Drop in Nuclear Services Segment

    BWX Technologies on Monday reported $428.2 million in revenue for the first quarter of 2017, up by 17 percent from $364.8 million in the same quarter last year, and generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) operating income of $83.2 million, spiking 95 percent year over year from $42.6 million. Earnings per share were reported at $0.55 in […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    CH2M Earnings Dip; Company Expecting News on Dispute with DOE Over Idaho Fee

    CH2M posted net earnings of about $14 million in the first quarter of 2017: a more than 40-percent drop from a year ago as revenue inched down about 3.5 percent to almost $1.2 billion. During the quarter, the company completed a corporate restructuring that began in the third quarter of 2016. In the period ended […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    NM Approves Los Alamos Nitrate Salt Plan

    In a paperwork milestone that speeds but does not clear the way to start treating a potentially explosive stream of transuranic waste at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico will allow the Energy Department to use a forklift as part of the agency’s planned treatment regimen. The state approved forklift use and other elements […]

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