Vol. 30, No. 25

Contracts & Procurement

AECOM to Spin Off Government Contracting Branch

AECOM plans next year to spin off the business that contracts with the U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense into a separate publicly traded company. The Los Angeles-based infrastructure multinational said Monday its Board of Directors unanimously signed off on the separation, which is expected to be completed in the second half of 2020. The […]
  • Defense Low-Level Waste

    Energy Dept. Sites Ordered to Study Rad Waste Holdings, Safety

    The Department of Energy is requiring over a dozen of its cleanup sites to conduct extensive evaluations of their radioactive waste holdings and safety practices, in hopes of preventing a repeat of the April 2018 sludge release at the Idaho National Laboratory. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]

  • Budget & Policy

    House Lets Fiscal 2020 DOE Cleanup Budget Stand at $7.2B

    The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed its first fiscal 2020 appropriations bill without any discussion of or changes to its $7.2 billion spending proposal for the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup office. After several days of debate, House members… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    Senate Panel Demands Update on DOE Waste Tank Closures

    A defense policy bill unveiled last week by the Senate Armed Services Committee would require the Department of Energy to report to Congress on its progress in closing radioactive waste storage tanks at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and the Idaho National… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]

  • Budget & Policy

    DNFSB Needs Major Changes, Senate Committee Says

    The Senate Armed Services Committee is eyeing a drastic overhaul at the U.S. Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB), including limiting its members to a single consecutive term and bringing on an executive director to improve management. The measures,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Budget & Policy

    White House Wants to Cull Federal Advisory Committees

    The White House wants federal agencies including the Department of Energy to kill off some of their Federal Advisory Committees by September, according to a presidential order published June 14. Federal Advisory Committees are nominally independent, government-chartered… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    DOE Proposes $1M in Enviro Projects to Help Retire Idaho Penalties

    The Department of Energy proposes to pay for five environmental projects valued at just over $1 million to work off some of the penalties assessed by the state of Idaho over the agency’s failure to start treating sodium-bearing waste at the Idaho National Laboratory. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    Weather, Maintenance Slowed WIPP Waste Emplacement in Early 2019

    The Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico received 115 shipments of transuranic defense waste during the first five months of 2019. Based on 21.5 calendar weeks through May 31, that is an average of 5.4 shipments per week. By contrast,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Wrap Up: Ohio Senators Commit to Solutions for Portsmouth Off-Site Contamination

    Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said this week he has been unable to persuade the White House to take a direct interest in addressing findings of off-site radiological contamination near the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth cleanup project in his state. “I’ve… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

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