Vol. 28, No. 38 
Industry Watching for Award of Savannah River Liquid Waste Contract
-
Transuranic Waste
LANL More Than Two-Thirds Through Combustible-Waste Treatment
Two sources in New Mexico said Thursday the Los Alamos National Laboratory is slightly more than two-thirds through treatment of potentially combustible waste containers. At a late September meeting of the Northern New Mexico Citizens’ Advisory Board, an Energy… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
-
Vitrification & Grout
Hanford PUREX Waste Tunnel Grouting Begins
Crews at the Hanford Site in Washington state by Thursday morning had injected 61 truckloads of grout into the PUREX Plant waste storage tunnel that was discovered on May 9 to have partially collapsed. Work was scheduled to continue Thursday night, when traffic… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
-
Transuranic Waste
WIPP Expects 170 Waste Shipments from Idaho by August 2018
The Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is expected to receive 170 shipments of transuranic waste from the Idaho National Laboratory between August 2017 and August 2018, officials said during a WIPP Town Hall last week in the city of… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
-
Commercial Low-Level Waste
Announcement Anticipated This Month on New Waste Control Specialists Buyer
A new buyer for Waste Control Specialists is expected to be announced in October, four months after a federal judge blocked a prior acquisition attempt, President and CEO Rod Baltzer said Monday. Baltzer mentioned the timeline during a presentation at the Nuclear… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
-
High-Level & Tank Waste
Bechtel Files Revised Safety Analysis on WTP
In what appears to be a sign of progress, Bechtel National has filed a revised preliminary documented safety analysis to the Department of Energy for the Hanford Site Waste Treatment Plant’s High-Level Waste Facility. The document is intended to support the resumption… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
-
Cleanup & Remediation
Hanford Support Services Contractor Names New President
A new president has been named for Hanford Site support services provider Mission Support Alliance (MSA) as the current president, Bill Johnson, moves on to a corporate job at Leidos. Johnson has served as MSA president since early 2015 and will leave Hanford on… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
-
Cleanup & Remediation
HAMMER Center Celebrates 20 Years of Hanford Training
The Department of Energy’s Volpentest HAMMER Federal Training Center at the Hanford Site was praised at its 20th anniversary celebration Thursday by officials ranging from national and international organized labor leaders to the governor of Washington. The 88-acre… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
-
Cleanup & Remediation
SRS Plans to Ramp Up Plutonium Downblending
The Energy Department’s Savannah River Site downblended 16 kilograms of nuclear weapon-usable plutonium in fiscal 2017, and is expected to nearly double amount in the current budget year. Officials from the South Carolina facility reported the figure last… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
-
Cleanup & Remediation
S.C. Governor Urges Congressmen to Continue Support of MOX
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is urging the state’s congressional delegation to continue advocating for the MOX project at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site, which is again in danger of being defunded. In a Sept. 14 letter, McMaster provided… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in […]
-
Cleanup & Remediation
California Expects Santa Susana Cleanup Starting in 2019
The California Department of Toxic Substances Control expects cleanup work to begin at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) site in 2019 and possibly be finished in 2034, according to the timeline laid out in the agency’s latest monthly report on the radioactively… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
-
Decommissioning
Piketon Crowd Voices Disposal Cell Concerns to DOE
Energy Department officials who attended a Monday meeting of the village of Piketon, Ohio, Council to give a progress update on cleanup of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, ended up hearing a lot about local opposition to an on-site disposal site for waste… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
-
Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up: Hanford Advisory Board Has a Quorum Again
The Department of Energy on Tuesday finalized the membership package to reconstitute the Hanford Advisory Board (HAB), which has been unable to establish a quorum to conduct business for three months. Membership for about half the members of the board expired at… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]