Vol. 30, No. 28 
House NDAA Blocks DOE From Reclassifying High-Level Waste in Wash. State
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Cleanup & Remediation
Draft RFP for Oak Ridge Cleanup Expected by Labor Day
In less than two months, the U.S. Department of Energy expects to issue a draft request for proposals for remediation at the 33,000-acre Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee. The agency posted its plans for the solicitation July 2 on a federal procurement website. Vendors should expect a 100% full and open competition with a pre-solicitation […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Energy Dept. Seeks Comments on PUREX Plant Fixes
The Department of Energy is taking public comment through Aug. 2 on a $218 million proposal, along with less-costly options, for minimizing health and environmental risks at the Plutonium Uranium Extraction (PUREX) Plant at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The preferred option focuses on a key building and annexes at the plant – not […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE Cleanup Corporate Services Chief Apparently Leaving Post
Another member of the brain trust for former assistant energy secretary for environmental management Anne Marie White is rumored to be on the move. The head of corporate services at the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management (EM), Paul Bosco, is apparently leaving his current post to take another position at the agency, two industry […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Ohio County Seeks Corrected DOE Air Sampling Reports From Portsmouth
The Pike County, Ohio, General Health District wants the U.S. Department of Energy to provide it with corrected air sampling reports from 2001 through 2017 after a federal official acknowledged last month a contractor under-reported potential contamination around the Portsmouth Site. Energy Undersecretary for Science Paul Dabbar said in a June 6 letter to Pike […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Preparations Begin for H Canyon Roof Repair at Savannah River
Preparations began this week for repairing the roof on the H Canyon facility at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina, with the physical repairs due to start later this summer. In January, the Energy Department announced plans to spend an estimated $1 million from the SRS fiscal 2019 maintenance and […]
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National Laboratories
DOE Inspector General Continues Probe of Grant Money Use by Los Alamos Group
The Department of Energy inspector general has “potential concerns” about agency oversight of $500,000 in grant money awarded to a regional group that promotes economic development around the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. That is the assessment offered in a July 2 memorandum from Deputy Inspector General Michelle Anderson to DOE Undersecretary for […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Justice Dept. Won’t Intervene in Fraud Case Against Hanford Vendor
The U.S. Justice Department has elected not to intervene in a fraud case filed by an ex-employee against an Energy Department contractor at the Hanford Site in Washington state, the advocacy group Hanford Challenge said Tuesday. The Justice Department declined comment Thursday afternoon, and Hanford Challenge could not immediately be reached for further comment. Kevin […]
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Decommissioning
West Valley Gets Little Attention in Senate Hearing
A bill to reauthorize the Energy Department’s continued nuclear cleanup at the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York state drew scant attention Tuesday during a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources energy subcommittee. The measure was one of 11 bills for consideration and testimony at the one-hour morning legislative hearing. Subcommittee Chairman […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Centrus Begins Work on New Enrichment Cascade Under Letter Contract From DOE
Centrus Energy Corp. has started work on a next-generation uranium enrichment cascade that could give the company a leg up in the competition to build the next domestic enrichment facility for national defense, according to a document published Wednesday by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In a June 27 letter to the federal regulator, the […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up: Hanford Survey Participation Drops
Participation in the 2018 public survey on issues at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state was less than half the count from the prior year. Only 55 people took part in the latest online survey, with 51 completing all the questions, far below the 119 responses a year earlier. Of those responding to […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
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