Vol. 33, No. 03 
New Complaint, Motion to Dismiss Filed in Hanford Anti-Vax Lawsuit
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Troy Wade, 87, Test Site Fixture, Defense Programs Head
Troy Wade, a Reagan-era assistant secretary of energy for defense programs and a fixture for decades at what is now called the Nevada National Security Site, died Jan. 16 at his home in Nevada, according to local media and the site. He was 87. Scott Wade, Troy’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! […]
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Contracts & Procurement
SRNS Earns High Marks, 96% Payout in Scorecard; 95% for New Lab Prime
Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the prime in charge of the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina, garnered an “excellent” scorecard from the feds and took home about $38.8 million, or 96%, of its potential fee for the last… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE Test Run of Integrated Waste Unit Could Resume This Month
The Department of Energy and its environmental management contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory hope to resume a test run of the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit by the end of the month, an Idaho state official said Thursday. As of Tuesday Jan. 18, managers… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
SRR Wins 98% of Liquid Waste Fee in Final Fiscal Year at Savannah River
Savannah River Remediation, the outgoing, Amentum-led liquid waste contractor at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina, took home about $43.8 million, or 98%, of a potential $44.6 million fee during fiscal 2021, according to a scorecard… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Centerra Claims 95% of Fee for SRS Security in New Scorecard
Centerra-Savannah River Site, security provider at the Department of Energy site in South Carolina, won $6.4 million or 95% of a potential $6.7 million fee for a 12-month period ended Oct.7, according to a new DOE scorecard. “Throughout this performance period,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Budget & Policy
DNFSB Staff Can Stick With Telecommute a While Longer
Most staffers with the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board don’t need to return to their pre-pandemic workplaces this month, a spokesperson with the federal safety watchdog said Tuesday morning. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) is no longer… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Savannah River Contractor Potentially in Market for Builder of Saltstone Disposal Units
The liquid waste contractor at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina is seeking expressions of interest from firms that could build three new saltsone disposal units at the federal complex near the Georgia line. Amentum-led Savannah… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Procurement Goals Show New Contracts Expected for WIPP, Hanford in 2022
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management plans to award new contracts this year at the Hanford Site in Washington state, the Moab uranium tailings site in Utah and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, the office said in its recent… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Oral Arguments Planned in Paducah Services Litigation
A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge was scheduled to hear oral arguments next month on whether Kentucky-based Swift & Staley is too large to qualify for the Department of Energy’s three-year, $160-million small business set-aside contract for Infrastructure… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Transuranic Waste
Final WIPP Figures for December, 2021 Show More Shipments Than 2020
The final numbers for December confirm 2021 was a bounce-back year of sorts for the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, which disposed of 21 more shipments of transuranic waste than during its first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up: Westinghouse Hires Baranwal; Los Alamos-EM Picked as “Justice40” Site
The former head of the Department of Energy’s nuclear energy office is headed to the C-Suite of Westinghouse Electric, the company announced Tuesday. Rita Baranwal, assistant secretary for DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) from July 2019 to January 2021,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Budget & Policy
Corrections
An article in the Jan. 14 Weapons Complex Monitor [“Tank-side Cesium Removal at Hanford Tracking January Startup”] should have said that subcontractor AVANTech designed the Tank-Side Cesium Removal project at the Hanford Site in Washington state. An article… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]