Vol. 28, No. 8 
Projected WIPP Disposals Would Require Greatly Accelerated Shipping Rate
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High-Level & Tank Waste
DOE Says Hanford Tank AY-102 Waste Retrieval Finished
Waste retrieval from the Hanford Site double-shell tank with an interior leak has been completed to the requirements of a settlement agreement between the Department of Energy and the Washington state Department of Ecology, according to DOE. The federal agency… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
DOE Plans to Start Calcine Retrieval in Idaho Soon
The Energy Department will soon begin retrieving highly radioactive calcine waste stored for years at the Idaho National Laboratory. The initial phase of the retrieval project, expected to cost DOE close to $50 million and last through 2022, involves moving the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Fluor Idaho to Test 11 Wells for Contamination
Fluor Idaho officials will test 11 groundwater monitoring wells on the Idaho National Laboratory site this spring following the detection of the hazardous chemical tetrachloroethylene, or PCE, inside two of the wells last year. The PCE surprised state and… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Hanford Office to Review Contractors’ Quality Assurance Requirements Transmission
The Richland Operations Office will review how its prime contractors at the Hanford Site in Washington state are passing down nuclear quality assurance requirements to subcontractors and qualifying them after questions were raised about the recently completed River… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Tri-Party Agencies Sticking With Virtual State of Site Meeting for Hanford
The three agencies that oversee cleanup at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., shrugged off concerns from a local citizens’ board about converting one of several spring meetings about the former plutonium production site to a webinar from an in-person affair,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
All Quiet on the SRS Liquid Waste Contract Front
The Energy Department and some potential contractors are keeping quiet as the agency reviews the bids for the new liquid waste contract at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The department could announce an award in early April, based on the June 30, 2017,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must […]
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National Laboratories
Sandia Director, Bechtel Exec Listed Among Top 3 Most Powerful Female Engineers
Sandia National Laboratories Director Jill Hruby nearly topped Business Insider’s list this week of the 43 most powerful female engineers of 2017 in the U.S. technology sector. Hruby came in at No. 2, behind only Peggy Johnson, executive vice president… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Tongate Confirmed as New Mexico’s Top Environment Official
Bunch Tongate was confirmed as secretary of the New Mexico Environment Department on Monday, the state agency announced Tuesday. “Yesterday, Secretary Designate Butch Tongate was confirmed unanimously by the Senate as Secretary of the New Mexico Environment Department,”… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Scioto County Official Blasts Piketon Mayor for Portsmouth ‘Dump’ Remark
The commissioner of the Ohio county south of the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site has taken a local mayor to task for his resistance to the waste disposal facility DOE intends to build at the former uranium enrichment facility. Earlier this month, Mayor… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Leidos Reports Increase in 4Q, FY16 Revenues
Global information technology provider Leidos this week reported higher earnings in the fourth quarter of 2016 and the full fiscal year, in part due to its acquisition last year of Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS) business… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Veolia Revenue Stabilizing as Company Turns to U.S. Market
Revenue at Veolia, the French transnational that purchased California-based nuclear-cleanup technology company Kurion last year, just about stabilized in 2016, with the company predicting growth in 2017 in a press release Thursday. Revenue at the Paris-based water… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
CORRECTION
A story in the Feb. 17 issue of Weapons Complex Monitor (“DOE IDs First Five Sites to Ship to WIPP,” Volume 28, No. 7) should have said there are 14,000 cubic meters of transuranic waste at the Idaho National Laboratory. Waste shipped from Idaho is… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must […]