Vol. 30, No. 01

Cleanup & Remediation

DOE Cleanup Boss Enters 2019 With Leadership Team in Place, Challenges Ahead

Energy Department Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management Anne Marie White enters her first full year on the job with both her leadership team largely in place and a strategy to reinvigorate the agency’s $7 billion-plus nuclear cleanup program. Including White, sworn into office late last March, four of the five top jobs at Environmental Management […]
  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Energy Dept. Divides Hanford Tank Work, Accelerates Closure Solicitation

    The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management announced Monday it would split the previously single Tank Waste Cleanup Contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state into two solicitations in the follow-on procurement. Priority will be given to a contract emphasizing closure of radioactive-waste storage tanks and “feed delivery” to the Waste Treatment Plant that […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    New Mexico Approves Change to DOE Method of Counting Underground Waste at WIPP

    Prior to exiting his job, New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Secretary Butch Tongate authorized the U.S. Energy Department to change the way it counts material volume at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad so vacant spaces between container drums are no longer recorded as waste. The longtime NMED manager was appointed to lead […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Incumbent Contractor Keeps Hanford Medical Services Business

    The Energy Department has awarded a potential seven-year, $152 million contract for occupational medical services at the Hanford Site in Washington state to incumbent vendor HPM Corp. of Kennewick, Wash. The contract includes a three-year base, followed by a pair of two-year option periods, DOE said in a Monday press release. The release did not […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Fluor Idaho Plans to Trim Workforce By 50

    Fluor Idaho said Thursday it is offering a “targeted voluntary separation program” for up to 50 employees at the Idaho National Laboratory cleanup project. Workers who exercise this option by Jan. 14 would leave the company on Feb. 18. The Department of Energy contractor said personnel at the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP) “are […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    AECOM Exec Promoted to Business Development Post

    Los Angeles-based AECOM has promoted longtime manager Ron Hahn to the newly created job of executive vice president of business development for the company’s Management Services group. Hahn, who most recently served as executive vice president for critical infrastructure protection strategies, is now responsible for generating growth in AECOM’s federal government business line, including the […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    Moving Nuclear Waste Explained at West Valley

    Randy Manus POWER Heavy loads must often be moved at power plants of all types. Air bearing-based vehicles can make the process safer, faster, and cheaper. Cask relocation at a nuclear waste facility offers one successful example of the process in action. Load moving in the nuclear industry comes with unique challenges, particularly when the […]

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