Vol. 32, No. 40

Cleanup & Remediation

Lawsuits, Wrangling and Political Pleas Mark Runup to Vaccine Firings

Vaccination holdouts at two of the first Department of Energy contractors to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations filed lawsuits against their employers, pleas are being made to elected officials on behalf of those who don’t want the shot and labor unions are wrangling with management at nuclear sites about mandate implementation. Those are a few highlights from […]
  • Contracts & Procurement

    Centerra Extended Up to 12 Months as SRS Security Provider

    A Department of Energy spokesperson officially confirmed Friday morning Centerra could stay on the job as security contractor at DOE’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina until October 2022. On Oct. 8, the Savannah River Operations Office extended the current security services contract with the Centerra Group for up to one year, the spokesperson said […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Tri-Parties Agree to Expansion of Groundwater Pump-and-Treat at Hanford Tank Farm

    A pump-and-treat system that captures groundwater contamination near radioactive waste tanks inside the Hanford Site in Washington would be expanded under a joint interim record of decision announced Wednesday by state and federal agencies.  The interim decision for groundwater operable units in Hanford’s 200 East Area — 200-BP-5 and 200-PO-1 — was issued jointly by […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Final Cleanup of DOE’s Research Site at Santa Susana Could Stretch into 2030s

    Although the buildings have been torn down, there is still plenty of remediation work left for the Department of Energy in coming years at its portion of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a spokesman for the California Department of Toxic Substances Control said. That probably won’t sit well with a group of five Californians in […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    WIPP Completes Mining Out Salt for Panel 8

    The Department of Energy’s prime contractor at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico has completed removal of 157,000 tons of salt mined from Panel 8, clearing the way for emplacement of transuranic waste there once Panel 7 is full in April 2022, the agency announced Tuesday. While electric power, phones and equipment such […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Claims Court Awaits OHA Action on Swift & Staley Ruling

    A legal dispute over the Department of Energy’s issuance of a landlord services contract for the Paducah Site in Kentucky to Swift & Staley, is apparently still percolating at the Small Business Administration’s Office of Hearings & Appeals. Late last month, Judge Thompson Dietz of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims granted another party in […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Senators Reintroduce Bill to Shield DOE, NRC Whistleblowers

    A bipartisan group of four senators reintroduced a bill to protect whistleblowers at the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from retaliation, according to a recent press release. Before the Senate adjourned last week, Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Ron Wyden (D-Wash.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) announced that they filed their […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Wrap Up: Ex-DNFSB Staffer Dies; Paducah Panel Has New Members: SWPF Recognized

    Funeral services were scheduled for Nov. 9 at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., for a submarine officer who had a second career in the civilian nuclear world as a Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board staffer for most of the last decade. Captain John Pasko (Ret.) died Sept. 7, according to a post published Sunday […]

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