Vol. 30, No. 12

Transuranic Waste

Energy Dept. Budget Would Trim Funding for Some Cleanup Sites

A number of nuclear cleanup sites would make due with less money under the Department of Energy budget plan for the next fiscal year. On March 11, the agency rolled out the broad outlines of its fiscal 2020 budget, with nearly $6.5 billion planned for the Office of Environmental Management — down by over $700 […]
  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    DOE Seeks SRS Liquid Waste Funding Uptick

    The Department of Energy is requesting more than $900 million for liquid waste treatment at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, the largest chunk of a $2.67 billion proposal for all facility operations in fiscal 2020. That sum is the most in the DOE… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Canada Probe of SNC-Lavalin Not Sure Red Light on U.S. Business

    By John Stang and Wayne Barber While it faces a potential 10-year ban on contracts with the Canadian government, SNC-Lavalin’s legal woes north of the border do not appear to automatically translate to similar troubles in the United States. The Montreal-based… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]

  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    Hanford Test Bed Initiative Suffers Another Permit Setback

    The Washington state Department of Ecology has denied the Department of Energy’s application for a permit to cover Test Bed Initiative (TBI) work at the Hanford Site, but expressed support for the project. Despite the initial setback, the letter of denial… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]

  • National Laboratories

    Labs Face Funding Cuts for DOE Environmental Cleanup

    The Department of Energy indicated Monday it intends in the upcoming budget year to cut tens of millions of dollars from environmental remediation funding at some of its national laboratories. As part of the continuing rollout of the Trump administration budget… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Resignation Leaves DNFSB With Three Members

    Daniel Santos last week resigned from the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) after a little more than four years on the job, the independent nuclear health-and-safety watchdog confirmed Monday. A spokesperson for the DNFSB said Santos’ last day will… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Hanford Support Services Provider Gets Temporary Extension

    The Department of Energy plans to extend the contract for Mission Support Alliance (MSA) to provide site-wide services at the Hanford Site in Eastern Washington by up to six months. Hanford DOE Manager Brian Vance said in a memo to site employees Tuesday that Richland… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Administration Plan Would Move FUSRAP From Army to Energy Dept.

    The Trump administration is proposing to shift management of cleanup of more than 20 radioactively contaminated former nuclear sites from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers back to the Department of Energy. The Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP)… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    WIPP Subcontractor Buys Carlsbad Hotel Amid Oil Boom

    Anyone visiting the Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) these days should not count on finding a cheap hotel room around Carlsbad, N.M. Rooms are scarce and midweek rates can run from $148 per night at the Super 8, to $289 at the Days Inn,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You […]

  • Budget & Policy

    House Panel to Hear From Perry on 2020 DOE Budget Request

    Energy Secretary Rick Perry will testify before the House Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee next week on his agency’s fiscal 2020 budget request. Perry is the only witness scheduled to appear before the panel at 10 a.m. Eastern time Tuesday… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    N3B Awards 1 Los Alamos Subcontract, Issues RFP for Another

    The legacy cleanup vendor for the Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has awarded a subcontract for a company to tear down an old processing building for radioactive liquid waste and do certain other work at Technical Area 21. Newport… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]

  • Decommissioning

    Work Resumes in X-333 at Portsmouth After Uranium Equipment Fire

    Demolition preparations have resumed at the X-333 Process Building at the Department of Energy’s shuttered Portsmouth Site in Ohio after a piece of old uranium-enrichment equipment caught fire there last week, an agency spokesperson confirmed Wednesday. The fire… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Oak Ridge Contractor Selection Continues for Low-Risk Structure Cleanup

    The Energy Department continues to work on selecting a winning vendor to characterize, deactivate, and tear down some low-risk structures for the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management in Tennessee. In August 2018, the Energy Department issued a request for… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    State Reviews Reports Prior to Resumption of Work at Idaho Lab Drum Breach Site

    Idaho state regulators are reviewing documents drafted by Fluor Idaho, which the company hopes will allow resumption of sludge repackaging this spring at the Idaho National Laboratory facility where four waste drums overheated and ejected their lids last April. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    Wrap Up: H-Canyon Producing 100,000 Gallons of Annual Liquid Waste

    The H-Canyon processing facilities at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina currently generate roughly 100,000 gallons per year of radioactive liquid waste, a figure expected to grow to about 200,000 per year in fiscal 2022. After… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

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