Vol. 31, No. 48 
Megabuck Oak Ridge Remediation RFP Hits the Street
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Transuranic Waste
Procurement Practically Seamless During Pandemic for EM
While the coronavirus pandemic affected nuclear cleanup at the Department of Energy in ways great and small, it did not slow down the acquisition process in 2020, when the Environmental Management Office awarded about $31 billion worth of new cleanup contracts. That includes $17 billion of contracts during the 2020 calendar year and some $14 […]
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Transuranic Waste
COVID-19 Slows Los Alamos Cleanup Work, WIPP Shipments; Fewer Active at EM
Concerns about the surging COVID-19 pandemic in New Mexico led the Department of Energy to reduce on-site staffing and slow certain operations at both the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, according to recent documents published by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. At Los Alamos, operations are affected for both […]
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Budget & Policy
Ex-Michigan Gov. Granholm Expected to Be Biden’s Energy Pick
President-elect Joe Biden will nominate former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) to be Secretary of Energy, media reported this week. Granholm, who is deeply familiar with U.S. auto-making, will be a key ambassador to industry when Biden enlists the DOE’s help bolstering his agenda to fight climate change, outlets reported, citing people familiar with the […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Navarro-led Group Expected to Start 222-S Transition Right After New Year’s
A group led by Navarro Research and Engineering is expected to start its transition Jan. 4 as the new contractor at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state, a source said this week. Hanford’s DOE site manager, Brian Vance, said last week during an appearance before the Hanford Advisory Board to expect the […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
New Mexico Frustrated With DOE’s Slow Progress on Cleanup of Los Alamos Road Site
The New Mexico Environment Department is still waiting on the Department of Energy to provide more details on the planned remediation of contamination discovered earlier this year on a public road outside the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The preliminary screening plan that will determine if the hazardous constituents at the 28-acre DP Road site are […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Top Hanford Fed Expects 3 Crumbling Structures to be Stabilized in January
The Department of Energy’s manager for the Hanford Site in Washington state expects the stabilization of three crumbling underground waste structures near the Plutonium Finishing Plant to be shored up by the end of January. “We expect to complete that project by the end of January,” Hanford’s site manager Brian Vance told a meeting of […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Nuke Cleanup Sites Could Become Home for New Reactors
Cold War and Manhattan Project locations being cleaned up by the Department of Energy could be viable candidates for new nuclear power plants, a federal official said during an online presentation Wednesday. About a dozen of the 16 nuclear cleanup properties run by the DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) boast “unique characteristics” potentially attractive […]
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Transuranic Waste
Wrap Up: Carlsbad Tech Bid Deadline Extended Until Dec. 23
The Department of Energy extended the bid deadline for a new Carlsbad Technical Assistance Contract by one week, to Dec. 23. The DOE Office of Environmental Management announced the extra time in a package of questions and answers published Dec. 11 on a procurement website. Previously, bids were due Dec. 14. In a final Q&A […]
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Budget & Policy
Editor’s Note: Federal Budget Talks
At deadline for Weapons Complex Monitor, Congress was still debating an extension of federal budgets beyond midnight on Friday, when a continuing resolution that extended 2020 budgets through today was set to expire.
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Cleanup & Remediation
PUBLICATION NOTICE
Weapons Complex Monitor will not publish next week in observance of the Christmas holiday, nor the week after, in observance of New Year’s Day. Look for the next issue in your inbox on Friday, Jan. 8. Happy 2021!