Vol. 28, No. 19 
Hanford Emergency Ends After Waste Tunnel Breach Filled
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Cleanup & Remediation
Most Hanford Workers Facing May Layoffs Placed in Other Jobs
Most of the Hanford Site workers facing layoff this month have been placed in other positions. CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. (CHPRC), one of the cleanup primes for the Department of Energy site in Washington state, announced in March it planned to cut up to… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Trump Bristles at NRC Disclosure Rules in Spending Bill
The Trump administration has taken issue with 3-year-old, bipartisan bill language the codifies the right of U.S. lawmakers to request sensitive information from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The language, a standard rider on most budget bills since 2014,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Transuranic Waste
NWP Fares Well in Second-to-Last Scorecard of Contract’s Base
Nuclear Waste Partnership President Phil Breidenbach is set to depart after two years of shepherding the company’s drive to reopen the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, and the Energy Department is sending him away with a final set of good marks in the contractor's latest annual review. Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP) nabbed $11.3 million in award […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Savannah River Streamlines SRS Spent Fuel Operations
The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina has implemented a new initiative aimed at streamlining spent fuel operations and cutting costs in the process. Workers with Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), the site’s management and… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Nevada Lawmakers Approve $7M+ for Yucca Fight From 2017-19
Two Nevada legislative panels on Saturday approved more than $7 million from 2017 to 2019 for the state to fight President Donald Trump’s plan to open the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nye County, Nev. In a joint session that was webcast, the state’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Sellafield Loss Stings in Second Quarter, but AECOM Earnings Still Strong
AECOM, a near-ubiquitous presence on the Energy Department’s legacy nuclear cleanup sites, said this week that operating income at its Management Services division sank 55 percent year over year to slightly more than $50 million in the quarter ended March 31. Management… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Centrus Hedges on D&D Date for American Centrifuge in Ohio
Centrus Energy hedged the end date for decommissioning and decontaminating its shuttered industrial-scale uranium-enrichment demonstration in Ohio, saying in its latest quarterly earnings report Tuesday the project will be “substantially complete” by year’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. Email or Username […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Jacobs Earnings Down in 2Q
Earnings at engineering services firm Jacobs, a support contractor at a number of Energy Department sites, fell more than 20 percent year over year to about $50 million for the fiscal second quarter ended March 31, the company said Tuesday. Quarterly revenue rose… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Perma-Fix Revenue Up, Losses Down for 1Q
Nuclear remediation and waste treatment provider Perma-Fix Environmental Services on Wednesday reported improvements in both revenue and operating losses for the first quarter of 2017. The Atlanta-based company brought in $12.7 million in revenue for the three… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Nuclear Waste Tech Review Board to Talk Glass in June
The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will meet on June 21 to discuss the Energy Department’s research into the staying power of the borosilicate glass the agency wants to use to immobilize high-level liquid waste at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]