Vol. 30, No. 29 
DOE Balks at Some State Proposals for Hanford Waste
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Cleanup & Remediation
Acting Head of Corporate Services Named for DOE Cleanup Office
The head of corporate services for the U.S. Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management (EM), Paul Bosco, has returned to his old job at the agency. Bosco, EM associate principal deputy assistant secretary for corporate services for less than a year,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP Managers Respond to DOE-Wide Waste Review
Managers at the Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., plan more training to help ensure no mislabeled or improperly packaged shipments reach the underground disposal site for defense transuranic waste. Some training could be rolled… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Energy Dept. Issues 14-Month, $1.5B Contract Extension for Savannah River Site Management
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SNRS) will continue managing the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina for the next 14 months, and possibly another two years after that, according to an announcement Thursday. The $1.5 billion contract… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DNFSB Points to Gaps in Hanford Plant Electric Infrastructure
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) is concerned about the age and reliability of the electrical system in a historic building still used for interim storage of radioactive sludge at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Defense Low-Level Waste
NRC Staff Backs Near-Surface Disposal of Most GTCC Waste
Staff at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined that the vast majority of Greater-Than-Class C (GTCC) low-level radioactive waste could be disposed of via a near-surface facility. This is another step, if a small one, toward the federal government… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Contracts & Procurement
SRS Security Contractor Centerra Wins 96% of Performance Fee
The Savannah River Site’s security contractor earned $96.1% of its possible award fee from the U.S. Department of Energy for services provided during the first half of fiscal 2019. Centerra-Savannah River Site brought in just shy of $3.14 million, out of a potential… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Trial Date Set in SRS Contractor Discrimination Case
Trial in in a longstanding discrimination case against the liquid waste contractor for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina is set to begin Sept. 23, according to a notice released last week. Jury selection is slated for Aug. 5 in… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Appeals Court Rejects Bechtel Request for Legal Fees
A federal appeals court ruled this week Bechtel National is not due reimbursement from the U.S. government for $500,000 in legal fees the company incurred prior to settling discrimination litigation brought by two former employees at the Energy Department’s Hanford… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Budget & Policy
Senate Energy Panel Advances West Valley Reauthorization Bill
A bill to reauthorize the Department of Energy’s West Valley Demonstration Project Act was reported out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on a voice vote Tuesday. The measure was passed in a bloc of 20 bills considered at once by the panel,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Centrus Energy CFO Departs Company
Marian Davis has resigned as chief financial officer of uranium fuel broker and enrichment technology company Centrus Energy Corp., according to a regulatory filing. Davis submitted her letter of resignation June 7 and was expected to leave the company after it… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Decommissioning
AECOM Taps U.K. Decommissioning Official for Management Services Post
AECOM on Monday named a senior executive with the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) to lead the international arm of the company’s Management Services nuclear and strategic environment branch. David Batters will join AECOM on Sept. 1… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wildfire Skirts Edge of Hanford Site
A 14,000- acre wildlife in Benton County, Wash., briefly burned some land on the outskirts of the Energy Department’s 586-square mile Hanford Site, but was moving away from the nuclear cleanup complex early Friday. At press time there were no specifics available… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]