Vol. 28, No. 32 
Atkins Exec Withdraws From Consideration for DOE EM-1: Sources
-
Cleanup & Remediation
DOE Advances Efforts to Stabilize At-Risk Hanford Waste Storage Tunnels
The Department of Energy is taking additional steps to stabilize two decades-old underground tunnels filled with radioactive waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, after one of them partially collapsed earlier this year. Hanford cleanup contractor CH2M… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
-
Cleanup & Remediation
Los Alamos to Miss Milestones for Nitrate Salt Treatment
Management at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has acknowledged it will not meet upcoming contractual milestones for treatment of nitrate salts, according to a recently released site report from the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. The news… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
-
Cleanup & Remediation
Stop Work Order Issued at Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant
A stop work order was issued at the Hanford Site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant after workers learned that plutonium and americium were found in high-volume air samples collected at the Energy Department facility’s Rattlesnake Barricade. The samples were collected… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
-
Cleanup & Remediation
CH2M Completes Assessment of Hanford Contamination Spread Incident
One of the primary cleanup contractors at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state has finished its assessment of the June spread of contamination during demolition of the Plutonium Finishing Plant. The evaluation by CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
-
Cleanup & Remediation
Idaho, DOE Partly Resolve Waste Treatment Penalty
The state of Idaho and the Department of Energy have resolved a $648,000 fine levied for the federal agency’s failure to start operating a liquid waste treatment facility at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). The Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) was built… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
-
Defense Low-Level Waste
DOE Waste Disposal Contract Goes to Bid
The Department of Energy on Wednesday formally started the bidding process on one or multiple new contracts for disposal of federal low-level waste and mixed-low-level waste. Interested parties have until Sept. 22 to submit questions, to LLW_MLLWDisposal@emcbc.doe.gov.… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]
-
High-Level & Tank Waste
Hanford Moves Closer to C Tank Farm Closure
Hanford Site workers have begun the push to empty most of the remaining waste in the final tank at the C Tank Farm, 19 years after preparations for waste retrieval at the farm began. If work goes as planned, Tank C-105 could be emptied to regulatory standards by… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex […]
-
Cleanup & Remediation
Another Delay Requested in Hanford Worker Safety Trial
The parties to a federal lawsuit on protection of Hanford Site workers from chemical vapors are requesting another trial delay while they pursue a settlement agreement. Plaintiffs and defendants asked U.S. District Judge Thomas Rice on Wednesday to postpone the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
-
Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up: Nuclear Waste Gets ‘Last Week Tonight’ Treatment
HBO’s satirical “Last Week Tonight” on Sunday gave over much of its 30-minute broadcast time to the potential threat posed to the United States by its growing stockpile of nuclear waste. Using data from sources including the Nuclear Energy Institute and… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
-
Cleanup & Remediation
While We Were Out
Congress skipped town, and so did many other readers, but that didn’t stop news from breaking during the ExchangeMonitor’s annual August publication break. As chronicled in the Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, here are a few stories that we’ve been following. Fluor… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]