Vol. 30, No. 17 
Cantwell Wants More Info on DOE Cleanup End-State Contracting
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Cleanup & Remediation
House Oversight Panel Considers DOE Environmental Liability
The Energy Department’s growing environmental liability will be the subject of a May 1 hearing before the House Energy and Commerce oversight and investigations subcommittee. “The Department of Energy faces nearly $500 billion in environmental liabilities related to cleaning up nuclear and hazardous waste left over from Cold War weapons production and federal energy research,” […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Energy Communities Alliance Working Behind Scenes on HLW Interpretation
WASHINGTON — While more than three months have passed since the public comment period closed, the Energy Communities Alliance (ECA) is “trying to keep this conversation going” on reinterpreting what material should be deemed high-level radioactive waste (HLW) by the Department of Energy. That was the word Wednesday from the ECA’s director of nuclear energy […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
DNFSB Locked Out of Meetings at Nuke Sites After DOE Order
WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy locked Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) staff out of meetings at least one defense nuclear site, a member of the independent federal nuclear health-and-safety watchdog said here Tuesday. At a public meeting, board member Joyce Connery said DNFSB staff at a site she did not identify were denied access […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE’s Idaho Waste Plant Liability Approaches $6 Million
By the end of April, the state of Idaho will have assessed $5.86 million in total penalties against the Department of Energy for failure to start operating the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) at the Idaho National Laboratory years ago. But DOE and contractor Fluor Idaho are doing their third extended test run of the […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Bechtel Earns 47.9% of Available 2018 Fee for Hanford Waste Treatment Plant
The Department of Energy on Tuesday gave Bechtel National a rating of “satisfactory,” and 47.9% of the maximum performance fee available for 2018, for its work on the Waste Treatment Plant at the Hanford Site in Washington state. That performance evaluation was good for $3.77 million out of a total available $7.87 million in the […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Plaintiffs Want Hanford Contracting Fraud Lawsuit Dismissed
A Department of Justice civil lawsuit alleging past fraud and kickbacks under the Mission Support Alliance contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state should be dismissed, plaintiffs said in motions filed Wednesday with a federal court. A hearing on their motions is set for Oct. 3 in U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington. The […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
SRS Security Vendor Must Pay for Ammo, Dog Food, DOE Says
The winner of the anticipated 10-year, $1 billion paramilitary security contract at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina must pay for much of its own ammunition and all the dog food. That is among the tidbits in in a third round of questions and answers posted Wednesday on the DOE procurement website. […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Portsmouth Infrastructure Incumbent Gets Contract Extension
The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management is picking up North Wind-led Portsmouth Mission Alliance’s (PMA) 22-month contract option for infrastructure support services at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio. The department on Tuesday announced the extension, valued at an estimated $67 million, one day before the three-year base contract with the North Wind-Swift & Staley […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE Cleanup Chief Has Leadership Team Largely in Place
With the addition of Darcey Bolin as her chief of staff, Assistant Energy Secretary for Environmental Management Anne Marie White filled one of the few remaining openings in her organizational brain trust. Now five of the top six management posts under White are filled with permanent rather than “acting” officials, according to the April 1 […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Hanford Cleanup Plans at Serious Risk, Advisory Board Says
Cleanup plans for the Hanford Site in Washington state, along with remediation milestones established under the Tri-Party Agreement, are in “serious jeopardy,” the Hanford Advisory Board said Wednesday in its annual budget advice letter to the Department of Energy. “The HAB views the combined lack of compliant budget appropriations, the unanticipated problems at Hanford, and […]
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Transuranic Waste
Public Meetings Sought on DOE Plans for New Shaft at WIPP
An advocacy group has asked the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) to hold public meetings soon on the Energy Department’s plan to build a new underground multi-use shaft into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. In an April 15 letter to NMED, Southwest Research and Information Center Administrator Don Hancock said the state […]
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Transuranic Waste
ETTP Cleanup Nears Finish Line in Fiscal 2020, Energy Dept. Says
Assistant Energy Secretary for Environmental Management Anne Marie White says 90% of remediation at the East Tennessee Technology Park at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee should be finished in the upcoming federal budget year. The ETTP site enriched uranium for the U.S. nuclear deterrent, and later for commercial nuclear power plants, from 1945 through […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Wrap Up: Centrus Energy Stockholder Meeting Set for June 6
Maryland-based Centrus Energy will hold its annual stockholders online meeting at 10 a.m. ET on June 6. “You will be able to participate in the meeting, vote, and submit questions during the meeting by visiting www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/LEU2019,” and entering a control number mailed to shareholders, Centrus President and CEO Daniel Poneman and Board Chairman Mikel Williams […]