Vol. 32, No. 07 
DOE’s Nuclear Cleanup Branch Confirms 232 Active COVID Cases
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Budget & Policy
New Name Surfaces in Conversations About Biden’s EM-1 Pick
Cynthia Anderson, a veteran Department of Energy manager, is interested in leading the agency’s office of environmental management in the Joe Biden administration, multiple people told Weapons Complex Monitor. Among other roles, Anderson has served as chief operating officer for the Office of the Environmental Management, with more than 20 years of nuclear and environmental […]
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP Handles 20 Shipments in January Prior to Outage
The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico received 20 shipments of transuranic waste during January, which represents its highest monthly total since October, according to the facility’s online waste information database. There were 12 shipments from the Idaho National Laboratory and eight from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Securitas JV Ousts Centerra at Savannah River
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management selected Hendon, Va.-based SRS Critical Infrastructure Security as the winner of the new Security Services Contract, potentially worth $1 billion over 10 years, at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. SRS Critical Infrastructure Security, or SCIS, is composed of Securitas CIS, K2 Solutions, Spectra Tech, Inc. […]
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Budget & Policy
Deputy DOE Nomination Lands in Senate
President Joe Biden’s nomination of David Turk to be the deputy secretary of energy was formally sent to the Senate late Thursday and referred to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The Senate was not in session Monday due to the Presidents Day holiday and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee had not […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Virtual Site Tour Documents for Moab RFP Now Available
The Department of Energy this week posted virtual site tour documents and other background material on its solicitation for a potential $614-million small business set-aside for the Moab Remedial Action Contract in Utah. The DOE Office of Environmental Management released its final request for proposals Feb. 11 for the work that includes cleanup of a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
New Deputy Chief of Corporate Services Listed Among EM Bosses
Randall Hendrickson is now the deputy chief of corporate services at the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, according to the latest organizational chart dated Feb. 11. The job, which reports to the Environmental Management (EM) office’s associate principal deputy assistant secretary Dae Chung, was vacant as recently as Jan. 28, according to prior […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Bad Weather Keeps Many Workers Home at Hanford, Los Alamos
Harsh winter weather this week in the Southwest and West scrambled work schedules at a couple of nuclear sites around the Department of Energy’s weapons complex. The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico was closed on Tuesday due to snow and wintry weather and the federal complex also had a delayed opening on Wednesday, […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Apollo Mechanical Nabs Sub Work for Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility Cleanup at Hanford
Hanford contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company recently awarded Apollo Mechanical Contractors a $9.5 million contract for work on the site’s Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility. Apollo’s job is to install equipment to transfer almost 2,000 capsules containing highly radioactive cesium and strontium from the water-filled Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility (WESF) pools to a planned […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Wrap Up: Comments Sought on Hanford Permit; Congress, New Mexico Meetings Planned
The Washington Department of Ecology is taking public comment through March 25 on proposed modifications to the state’s permit for key equipment used to help control liquid waste volume in underground tanks at the Department of Energy’s Hanford site. The original transfer lines that connect double-shell tanks holding radioactive waste to the 242-A Evaporator flunked […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
CORRECTION
A story in last week’s issue of Weapons Complex Monitor (“Jacobs’ Profits Edge Up in Q1; Revenue Stable,” Vol. 32 No. 06) should have said that Jacobs’ profits increased in the first quarter of 2021 on both an adjusted and unadjusted basis. The story was also updated with the correct earnings figures for each period.