Vol. 29, No. 14 
Los Alamos Wrestles With Recent Waste Problems
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Cleanup & Remediation
New Cleanup Contractor to Take Reins at Los Alamos This Month
Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) is on schedule at the end of April to take over as the new legacy cleanup contractor for the Energy Department’s Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory in New Mexico. “We are ready to get started,” Nick Lombardo, president… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Perry, New DOE Cleanup Chief Visit Paducah Site
In her first official visit to an Energy Department cleanup site since being sworn in last week, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management Anne Marie White toured the Paducah Site in Kentucky on Thursday. She was part of a delegation including… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Omnibus Boosts Funding for Oak Ridge Cleanup
The newly signed $1.3 trillion federal government omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2018 provides a boost for environmental remediation of the Department of Energy’s nuclear facilities at Oak Ridge, Tenn. About $639 million will go toward cleaning up Oak Ridge’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Transuranic Waste
TRU Waste Storage Not Caught Up in SPRU Cost Dispute
Interim storage of transuranic waste at the Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU) cleanup project in upstate New York will not be affected by a cost dispute between the U.S. Energy Department and its contractor, AECOM subsidiary URS. “Transuranic waste treatment,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Funding on the Way to Complete Reactor Cleanup in Arkansas
The U.S. Energy Department will provide the University of Arkansas with $10 million to complete the environmental remediation of the Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor (SEFOR). Two members of the state’s congressional delegation, Sen. John Boozman (R)… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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National Laboratories
Former Los Alamos Community Advocate Hopes Reimbursement Dispute is Over
The former head of an advocacy group for communities around the Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico said Tuesday she has repaid $800 in questioned expenses in an effort to resolve a public dispute that marred the end of her tenure. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must […]
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP’s 2018 Waste Shipments Reach 64 by March
The Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., received 64 shipments of transuranic waste from Jan. 1 through March 21, 2018, according to the latest publicly available data. Of the shipments received by March 21, 48 came from the Idaho… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Savannah River Contractor Seeks $900 After Winning Discrimination Suit
A former employee’s discrimination federal lawsuit against the management and operations contractor for the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site has been dismissed due to a lack of sufficient evidence. Now, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS)… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. […]
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Transuranic Waste
Wrap Up: Former WIPP Boss Becomes Chief Engineer at SRS Contractor
Phil Breidenbach, former president and project manager for the contractor that manages the Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, has been named chief engineer for the current liquid waste manager at DOE’s Savannah River Site in South… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Correction
Cleanup funding figures reported for the Savannah River Site in the March 30 edition of Weapons Complex Monitor were for the full environmental management mission at the Department of Energy facility, not solely liquid waste management. A comparison of the site’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]