Vol. 32, No. 06 Hanford Contractor Policy Change Endangers Some Subs, ECA Asserts
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Cleanup & Remediation
Final Moab RFP Worth $600M Hits the Streets
The Department of Energy Thursday issued its final solicitation for a potential $614-million small business set-aside contract for the Moab Remedial Action Contract which involves cleanup of a uranium tailings pile in Utah. The new business could run 15 years, with a 10-year ordering period plus an additional five-year task order, and would replace the […]
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National Laboratories
Battelle Receives Green Light for Savannah River National Lab Transition
The Department of Energy cleared a transition of Savannah River National Laboratory operations to Battelle Savannah River Alliance starting Feb. 16, the contractor announced Thursday. The notice means the Battelle team will take over as manager of the laboratory in mid-June from Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, which is the current operator of the entire […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Number of Weekly Active COVID-19 for EM Dips Under 300
There were as of Thursday 296 active, confirmed cases of COVID-19 among personnel in the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, which is 39 fewer than the previous week’s total of 335. The figure, provided Thursday by an Environmental Management (EM) office spokesperson, marks several weeks of mostly steady decreases in the active cases […]
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Transuranic Waste
New Shaft, COVID Recovery Among Key Issues in WIPP’s Near Future
New Mexico will hold hearings soon about restarting excavation of a new utility shaft at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, the Department of Energy’s manager for the transuranic waste disposal site told state lawmakers in a virtual briefing Tuesday. In addition, the facility should emplace more shipments of transuranic waste in the next […]
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Transuranic Waste
DOE Moves Closer to Cleaning Up Major Transuranic Tranche at Idaho
The Department of Energy expects to treat the remainder of transuranic waste, held in interim storage at Idaho National Laboratory by the end of year, a DOE official in Idaho said recently. Of the 65,000 cubic meters of material shipped to Idaho from the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado between 1970 and […]
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Budget & Policy
Org Charts Altered at DOE and EM
The Department of Energy under the Joe Biden administration has decided, for now at least, to undo an organizational change made by the prior administration which had the Office of Environmental Management stovepiped below DOE’s undersecretary for science. The new organizational chart has the Office of Environmental Management (EM) reporting directly to the office of […]
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Budget & Policy
Biden Picks Turk for No. 2 Slot at DOE
President Joe Biden plans to nominate David Turk as the deputy secretary of energy, according to a White House news release published this week. Turk, a member of Biden’s Department of Energy transition team, is currently deputy executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), where he has worked since 2016 after leaving the Barack […]
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Budget & Policy
DNFSB, DOE Still Working Out Information Sharing
As of Tuesday, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board and the Department of Energy are still tinkering with a draft memorandum of understanding about sharing information at nuclear-weapon sites while a Donald Trump administration order limiting DOE interactions with the board remains in effect. That’s according to a spokesperson for the independent federal board, which […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Jacobs Profits Edge Up, But Revenue Stays Flat During Quarter
Jacobs Engineering, the Dallas-based parent of multiple nuclear-cleanup and nuclear-weapon site contractors, saw profits rise about $20 million in the first quarter of 2021, while revenue stayed flat, the company reported this week. That accounts for adjustments related to the 2019 sale of the company’s Energy, Chemicals and Resources division to Australia’s Worley, and other […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up: GOP Figure Shultz Served as Bechtel President
In addition to serving in key leadership posts for Republican presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to Ronald Reagan, George Shultz, who died over the weekend at age 100, was also a top Bechtel executive in the 1970s and 1980s. Shultz first joined Bechtel in 1974 as executive vice president and “already had more experience and accomplishments […]