Vol. 29, No. 20 
House Appropriations Panel Kills Amendment to Divert Some Cleanup, Yucca Funding
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Cleanup & Remediation
Testing on Alternative for Hanford Waste Treatment Gets Boost in House
A project to advance testing on whether some radioactive waste at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site could be grouted rather than converted to glass would proceed under direction from legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives. On Wednesday, the House… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Transuranic Waste
Leaked NNSA Report Sheds Light on Cost Estimate for MOX Alternative
A leaked report from a nominally independent office within the National Nuclear Security Administration offers a trove of new details about the plan the agency must sell to Congress in order to start producing nuclear-warhead cores in South Carolina. On May 10,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Budget & Policy
House Committee Cuts $96M From Savannah River Site Funding Proposal
The Department of Energy would receive about $53 million less than requested for liquid waste management at the Savannah River Site in fiscal 2019 under legislation advanced Wednesday by the House Appropriations Committee. All told, the DOE facility in South Carolina… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Transuranic Waste
Oak Ridge ETTP Cleanup Gets a Shave in House
The House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved a $16 million funding haircut for cleanup of the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Tennessee. If the spending level survives the congressional appropriations process, financing from… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
SRS Waste Processing Due to Resume This Month
The Department of Energy aims later this month to resume liquid waste processing at the Savannah River Site, two months after the initial March projection. Meeting that schedule would cap off a 15- month pause of waste processing at the DOE facility near Aiken,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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Transuranic Waste
DOE Cleanup Chief Approves WIPP Ventilation System
A new $288 million ventilation system, intended to allow the Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico to conduct simultaneous underground salt mining and disposal of transuranic waste, has been approved by Assistant Energy Secretary… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Transuranic Waste
New York, DOE Disagree Over Disposal Path for West Valley Waste
The Energy Department and the state of New York disagree on whether waste at the West Valley Demonstration Project should be considered defense-related, according to testimony Friday before the House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce environment subcommittee. New… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Lab Tests Hanford WTP Approach for Waste Treatment
Researchers have vitrified 2 gallons of radioactive waste removed from a Hanford Site storage tank in a first-of-a-kind demonstration of the processes that will be used at the Waste Treatment Plant being built at the Energy Department facility in Washington state. Pacific… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE Plans Alternate Cost Analysis for Hanford Services RFP
The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management plans to try a newly minted alternate method to analyze contractor costs when it issues the final request for proposals (RFP) for the potential $4 billion Hanford Mission Essential Services Contract later… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Portsmouth Advisory Board Declines to Revisit Disposal Cell Issue
An advisory body to the Department of Energy has declined to ask government agencies reconsider their approval of a planned on-site radioactive waste disposal cell Portsmouth Site in Ohio The Portsmouth Site Specific Advisory Board on May 10 voted 10-6 to urge… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
No Word Yet on Extending Incumbent SRS Liquid Waste Contract
The Energy Department as of Thursday had yet to finalize an agreement to keep incumbent Savannah River Remediation (SRR) overseeing liquid waste management at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina beyond May 31. A DOE proposal published March 21 would keep… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Wrap Up: Industry Veteran Joins Longenecker & Associates
Las Vegas-based Longenecker & Associates said Tuesday it has hired nuclear industry veteran Mike Briggs to the newly created post of senior program manager for operational support. Briggs, who has worked on major projects within the Energy Department complex,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]