Vol. 29, No. 34

Cleanup & Remediation

DOE Cleanup Chief Hopes to Move Past ‘Plateau,’ Focus on Completion

HENDERSON, Nev. — The head of the Energy Department’s nuclear cleanup office fears remediation efforts have reached a “plateau” and need a push to advance toward closure of remaining sites. Toward that, the office is developing strategic plans both for its full operations and for specific properties over the coming decade. “The analogy that comes […]
  • Budget & Policy

    Contractors, DOE Hope 2019 Funding Doesn’t Get Derailed

    HENDERSON, Nev. — Department of Energy officials and industry executives expressed hope Wednesday that no last-minute snags hold up passage of a fiscal 2019 budget with healthy funding for the agency’s nuclear weapons and cleanup operations. “Who wants… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

  • Vitrification & Grout

    Wash. State Lawmakers Call for More Hearings on Hanford Waste Grouting

    The Department of Energy must hold additional public hearings in the Pacific Northwest on a proposal that could lead to a limited amount of radioactive waste being grouted in place in the Hanford Site’s underground storage tanks, according to three members of… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]

  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    Parsons Pledges to Open SRS Waste Treatment Facility in 2019

    HENDERSON, Nev. – Parsons Senior Vice President Frank Sheppard Jr. expressed confidence Thursday the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina will start operation in 2019. “We are going to start… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Lawmakers Oppose Declawing DNFSB

    Members of Congress this week voiced their displeasure about a planned downsizing of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, and with a Department of Energy order that some, including the board itself, fear will lock the federal agency out of much of the U.S.… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Some Hanford Well Decommissioning Info Outdated, DOE IG Says

    Some information of the well decommissioning program at the Hanford Site in Washington state has not been kept up-to-date, the Department of Energy Inspector General’s Office said in an audit report released on Aug. 31. The audit was a follow-up to a January… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Watchdog Group Wants Outside Review of Car Contamination at Hanford

    Watchdog group Hanford Challenge is calling for an independent look at the threats that Hanford’s contamination may pose to nearby communities after a small, newly completed study reported radioactive contamination in the personal cars or trucks of three workers… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Decommissioning

    West Valley Reauthorization Will Cost $345M Through 2023, CBO Says

    The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates a House of Representatives bill to reauthorize appropriations for ongoing environmental remediation at the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York state would cost $345 million from fiscal 2019 through 2023. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    WRPS Seeks Qualified Subcontractors for $4M Lab Project

    The waste storage tank farm manager at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state, Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), is seeking expressions of interest from subcontractors qualified to design and build a 10,000-square-foot modular laboratory… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Wrap Up: BWXT Promotes COO to Lead Technical Services Group

    Lynchburg, Va.-based BWX Technologies said Wednesday it has promoted Heatherly H. Dukes to the position of president of the company’s Technical Services Group. Dukes has most recently served as the group’s chief operating officer, overseeing BWXT operations… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]

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