Vol. 28, No. 47

Cleanup & Remediation

DOE Reorg Moves Cleanup Office to New Home

The Department of Energy on Friday made official a long-rumored bureaucratic reorganization that puts the agency’s Cold War nuclear-cleanup programs under new management but leaves the quasi-independent National Nuclear Security Administration essentially unchanged. The Department of Energy’s (DOE) roughly $6.5-million-a-year Office of Environmental Management (EM), steward of environmental remediation of Cold War nuclear weapons sites […]
  • Budget & Policy

    House Issues Another Short-Term Budget; EM Funds Remain Steady

    The House Appropriations Committee this week unveiled a peculiar budget bill that would provide full-year fiscal 2018 appropriations for the Pentagon, but keep other federal agencies including the Department of Energy funded at prior-year levels through Jan. 19. House… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    CH2M Becomes Part of Jacobs Engineering

    Colorado-based CH2M on Friday officially became a wholly owned subsidiary of Dallas-based Jacobs Engineering, CH2M announced in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. More details about the merger will be disclosed Monday, CH2M said at press… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    After Much Wrangling, DOE Approves Most Questioned Costs for Bechtel Invoices at Hanford

    Following an extended back and forth with the Department of Energy, contractor Bechtel has only been required to repay a sliver of the $5.5 million in costs challenged in a federal audit for its work over several years at the Hanford Site in Washington state. A… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    WIPP Poised to Resume Salt Mining After Three Years

    After a three-year hiatus, the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., should resume salt mining in a matter of days, according to site management and operations contractor Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP). The resumption would… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Navarro Lands More than 97 Percent of Potential FY17 DOE Fee

    Navarro Research and Engineering earned more than 97 percent of its total potential fiscal 2017 award fee from the Department of Energy Nevada Environmental Program Services (EPS) contract. Navarro garnered $835,975 of a potential $857,037 for the period from Oct.… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    Bechtel Taps New Director for Vit Plant at Hanford

    Bechtel National is assigning a new project director for the Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) it is building at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state as it moves toward a new phase of work, the partial startup of waste treatment as soon as 2022. Peggy… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Hanford Plutonium Plant Demo Stopped for Two Days After Possible Radiation Exposures

    CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. stopped demolition of the Hanford Site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant for two days this week after laboratory results came back positive for air samples collected in seven monitors. The monitors were worn by workers on their lapels… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]

  • Decommissioning

    Another Extension Sought in Vapors Trial as Settlement Talks Continue

    With settlement talks continuing, parties in the chemical vapors lawsuit at the Hanford Site in Washington state have asked a federal judge to delay the trial date for another three months. Parties are requesting that the trial date be extended until Nov. 27, 2018.… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Oak Ridge Lab Eyes Concrete Encasement for Retired Reactor

    The contaminated Molten Salt Reactor Experiment at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee could be encased in concrete, according to the top nuclear cleanup official at the Department of Energy site. Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) Manager… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    S.C. Health Agency, Energy Department Negotiate SRS Waste Agreement

    South Carolina is giving the Department of Energy extra time — more than a year in one case — to meet key milestones in treatment of liquid waste and closure of storage tanks at the Savannah River Site (SRS). The previously unreported suspension agreement,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]

  • National Laboratories

    Battelle Will Continue to Run INL Through September 2024

    While some details remain to be worked out, Energy Secretary Rick Perry has approved a five-year extension for Battelle Energy Alliance to continue as the management and operations contractor for the Idaho National Laboratory through Sept. 30, 2024. Battelle Energy… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Wrap Up: BWXT Board Chairman to Step Down

    BWX Technologies said Thursday that Executive Chairman of the Board John Fees would become non-executive chairman as of May 4, 2018. The Lynchburg, Va.-based Department of Energy contractor noted also in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

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