Vol. 28, No. 22 The NRC Didn’t Just Resume Yucca Mountain Licensing Process
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE to Grout Collapsed Hanford Tunnel
The Department of Energy is making plans to fill the partially collapsed waste tunnel at the Hanford PUREX plant with grout, the agency said in a Wednesday meeting with state regulators and site contractor CH2M Plateau Remediation Company. Personnel at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., discovered a 20-foot-long breach in the Purex tunnel May […]
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Transuranic Waste
Colorado’s CAST Nabs Five-Year WIPP Waste-Shipping Contract
CAST Specialty Transportation will haul transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant over the next five years under a potentially $112 million contract announced by the Energy Department Thursday. Under the deal, an indefinite-quantity, indefinite-delivery contract using firm fixed-price task orders, CAST “will provide facilities, personnel, and equipment to operate a local terminal within […]
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Transuranic Waste
Improperly Sealed TRU Waste From Idaho Shipped to WIPP
Fluor Idaho sent an improperly sealed container of transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant last month, but inspectors at that New Mexico disposal facility caught the mistake, according to a public notice from the Energy Department. The waste, shipped to WIPP May 10 in a TRUPACT-II container that can hold around 1.5 cubic […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Kerridge Replacing Hayfield as Head of Biz Dev for AECOM Nuke Unit
Jeff Kerridge was appointed senior vice president of business development for AECOM’s Nuclear and Environment business unit, the company announced late Tuesday. Kerridge is responsible for “implementing strategies to build the N&E business [and] have responsibility for assuring quality and consistency in business development pursuits,” Los Angeles-based AECOM wrote in a press release. Kerridge was […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Bechtel Gets Mostly Positive Notes on WTP in ’16 Fee Award
Bechtel National earned just over $7 million in fees for its work building the Waste Treatment Plant at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site near Richland Wash.: good for 71 percent of the total available for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2016. DOE grades Bechtel in two major categories: the less-quantifiable project management category, which […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
SRS Waste Missions Continue Despite Halt on Liquid Waste Processing
A least one liquid waste-related operation is ongoing at the Savannah River Site, despite the temporary halting of liquid waste processing earlier this year. At a Savannah River Site (SRS) Citizens Advisory Board meeting last week, a DOE official said the site is about halfway through its checklist on the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF): […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
No: NRC Didn’t Resume Yucca Mountain License Hearings This Week
No: NRC Didn’t Resume Yucca Mountain License Hearings This Week The Nuclear Regulatory Commission did not resume consideration of the Energy Department’s application to license Yucca Mountain as a permanent nuclear waste repository, despite media reports to the contrary sparked by a routine notice published in the federal register this week. The notice that appeared […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
McGinnis Appointed to No. 2 Spot at DOE Office of Nuclear Energy
Ed McGinnis was appointed deputy assistant secretary for nuclear energy, a promotion for the long-time DOE civil servant who had been deputy assistant secretary for international nuclear energy policy and cooperation since 2007. In his new role, which did not require Senate confirmation, McGinnis is the number-two man at the DOE office responsible for civilian […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
White House Nominates Former NNSA Officials to DOD, DOE Roles
The White House last week formally nominated two former National Nuclear Security Administration officials to key administration positions at the Pentagon and the Energy Department. One, Robert Hood, was nominated to be assistant secretary of defense for legislative affairs. Hood was most recently vice president for government affairs at CH2M, an Energy Department contractor, and […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Voss Stepping Down as Head of Waste Management Symposia
James Voss will step down as managing director of Waste Management Symposia at the end of June. The organization helms the annual Waste Management Symposium, which is widely considered a must-attend show among nuclear-cleanup experts in industry and government. Voss broke the news late Tuesday in a widely distributed email. The text of that email […]