Vol. 32, No. 08 
Draft RFP Issued for Massive $26-B Hanford Combo Contract; Tank Manager Gets Extension
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Cleanup & Remediation
New Mexico Seeks to Jettison 2016 Consent Order With DOE at Los Alamo
The New Mexico Environment Department asserts in a state court filing this week the Department of Energy is not meeting its cleanup obligations for the Los Alamos National Laboratory under a 2016 consent order — an order the state wants to terminate. The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) filed its complaint Thursday with the state’s […]
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Budget & Policy
Granholm Takes Oath as 16th Secretary of Energy
Jennifer Granholm was sworn in Thursday as secretary of energy after the Senate confirmed her by a wide, bipartisan margin to lead the Department of Energy and the almost $30-billion-a-year worth of nuclear weapons and waste programs that make up more than half… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
COVID-19 Cases at Nuclear Cleanup Sites Continue to Flatten Out
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has 180 confirmed active cases of COVID-19 this week, down from 232 last week, and 296 two weeks ago, according to data a spokesperson provided Thursday. At the Savannah River Site in South Carolina… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Contracts & Procurement
DOE Plans to Extend Existing Swift & Staley Contract at Paducah After Small Biz Size Protest
The Department of Energy plans to extend Swift & Staley’s infrastructure services contract at the Paducah Site in Kentucky for up to a year after a protest derailed plans to award the company a follow-on contract. The DOE’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Contracts & Procurement
SOC Challenges DOE Contract Award
SOC, a Day & Zimmermann security company, this week protested the Department of Energy’s recently-announced award of a $1-billion Savannah River Site security services award to a Securitas-led team. The bid protest, dated Feb. 22, matched the DOE solicitation… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Contracts & Procurement
DOE Starts Seeking Sources for Next Paducah Cleanup Contract
The Department of Energy announced Thursday on a federal procurement website that it is beginning market research for the next cleanup contract at the Paducah Site in Kentucky. The DOE Office of Environmental Management rolled out a request for information (RFI) seeking potential sources for a new deactivation and remediation agreement for the former gaseous […]
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Defense Low-Level Waste
Nevada, Feds Drafting Settlement Over Mislabeled Waste Shipments
The Department of Energy and the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection are hammering out some type of legal settlement over shipments of mislabeled radioactive waste sent last decade to the Nevada National Security Site from the Y-12 National Security Complex… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
BWXT Chief Hopes for Bigger Hanford Payoff at Hanford
During an earnings call this week, BWX Technologies President and CEO Rex Geveden sounded less like a boss disheartened by seeing a $13-billion contract award undone than someone eager to land a bigger payday in the near future. In December, the Department of Energy… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Fluor Sees Lower Companywide Losses in Quarter, 2020 Than Year Ago
It was a down earnings period for Texas-based Fluor in the 4th quarter, which the government contractor largely attributed to delayed spending due to the COVID-19 pandemic along with winding down low-profit infrastructure projects. For both the quarter and the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Transuranic Waste
RFPs for WIPP Could Hit the Street in May, DOE Says
Final solicitations for operations and transportation contracts at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., could be out as soon as May, the agency said Thursday. In one of its procurement special notices, the DOE Office of… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
N3B Work Stopped at Los Alamos Area G in Late January
The Department of Energy’s legacy cleanup contractor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico suspended some work for more than a week in January to address safety issues, according to a recent staff report to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up: About 70% of Moab Tailings Removed So Far
As of December, roughly 70% or 11.2 million of the 16 million tons of contaminated debris and soil had been hauled away from an old uranium mill outside Moab, Utah, according to data released by the Department of Energy last week in for a new contract for the project. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for […]