Vol. 32, No. 09 
Nominee for DOE’s No. 2 Post Would Take Look at Hanford Subcontractor Issues
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Cleanup & Remediation
COVID Numbers Continue Gradual Decline Within Nuclear Cleanup Sites
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has now logged two straight weeks with confirmed, active COVID-19 cases below the 200 mark. There are 139 confirmed, active cases of COVID-19 within the nuclear cleanup complex, an Environmental Management… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Hanford Locals Open to High Level Waste Reclassification; State, Tribe Bash DOE
Rebutting a recent letter from Washington state and the Yakama Tribe, local officials from communities around the Hanford Site this week defended the Department of Energy’s 2019 policy change on high-level waste. In a letter dated Wednesday, mayors and other… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
DOE Tapping Alternative Source to Bolster Uranium D&D Fund
Due to a shortfall in the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund, the Department of Energy is drawing upon other money in fiscal 2021 to help pay for cleanup of the government’s shuttered uranium enrichment plants. The Uranium Enrichment… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Budget & Policy
GAO Finds Limited Progress on Tough Issues at DOE Nuclear Cleanup Office, NNSA
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management still has much work to do on oversight of contracts and operations, the Government Accountability Office said this week in its annual update on high-dollar, “high-risk” issues. The DOE’s semi-autonomous… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
High Court Declines to Hear Case on Los Alamos Water Permit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition to hear a challenge brought by New Mexico-based Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety over a Clean Water Act permit at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory. The high court’s denial of certiorari,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Budget & Policy
Skelton Joins DOE as Senior Adviser
Karen Skelton has been named a senior adviser to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, DOE announced this week in a press release. Skelton comes to the Joe Biden administration from California, where she spent the last decade as the CEO and founder of Skelton Strategies,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Status Conference Set in March Suit Against Portsmouth Contractors
A federal magistrate judge in Ohio will hold a preliminary pre-trial conference by telephone March 25 in a lawsuit filed in September against current and former contractors for the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio. The corporate defendants in the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Veolia Reports 2020 Earnings, Keeps Focus on Suez Group
French waste and water management corporation Veolia suffered a setback last week in its attempt to take over the Suez Group, another French conglomerate in the same business. In dueling press releases Feb. 25 and Feb. 26, neither multinational corporation mentioned… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Transuranic Waste
Scant 3 Shipments to WIPP in Abbreviated February Schedule
With the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico undergoing its regular annual maintenance outage, there were only three shipments of transuranic waste to the underground salt mine during February. Two of the three shipments to the Waste… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Moab Hauled More Tailings During Pandemic, Data Indicates
After the COVID-19 pandemic struck the U.S. in 2020, Department of Energy contractor North Wind Portage actually hauled more contaminated material away from an old uranium ore processing site outside Moab, Utah, than it did during a corresponding period in 2019. That… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up: Firm Tests for Leaks at SDU 7; NMED Official to Retire
The Department of Energy is testing Saltwaste Disposal Unit 7, a key part of the Savannah River Site’s liquid waste cleanup effort, for leaks, the agency said this week. Amentum-led contractor Savannah River Remediation is conducting what DOE described in a press… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]