Vol. 33, No. 23 
EM acting policy chief Mullis talks ‘silver tsunami,’ environmental justice
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Budget & Policy
Hanford gets budget hike in record time; Murray touts win
This budget season, the Hanford Site got a bigger budget before Congress even published any appropriations bills, with the Joe Biden administration amending its 2023 spending request to provide over $90 million more for the biggest ongoing U.S. nuclear-weapons cleanup. The new Hanford figure is the result of a recent budget amendment from White House’s […]
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP, NNSA seeking closer cooperation on waste disposal plans
SUMMERLIN, NEV. — With the National Nuclear Security Administration hoping to see the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico producing 30 plutonium pits by 2026, the organization is working closely with the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant on plans for the increased transuranic waste levels, speakers told Radwaste Summit Wednesday. With the […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Nuclear cleanup leadership should be built to ‘span administrations,’ GAO reviewer says
SUMMERLIN, NEV. — The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management is faced with cleaning up nuclear hazards dating to the 1940s era Manhattan Project and its leadership structure should also be designed for the long run, a Government Accountability Office representative said Wednesday. Nathan Anderson, director of the energy and natural resources team for […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Judge won’t let DOE boot Swift & Staley out of Paducah in March ‘23
U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Thompson Dietz appears unlikely to set an end date for Swift & Staley’s tenure as landlord of the Department of Energy’s Paducah Site in Kentucky, based on an online court filing last week. The June 2 decision, filed under seal but described in the online docket for the Court […]
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Transuranic Waste
DOE hoping for a WIPP rebound thanks to new panel, infrastructure, Carlsbad boss says
SUMMERLIN, NEV. — With the promise of a contamination-free underground panel to work in, and looming infrastructure upgrades, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico could triple the number of waste shipments it takes in by 2024, compared with 2021, a federal official said Thursday. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) crews should finish filling […]
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Defense Low-Level Waste
UCOR keeping wary eye on timetable for new Oak Ridge landfill
SUMMERLIN, NEV. — The existing low-level hazardous waste landfill at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee is likely to hit capacity before its replacement is ready in 2029, a manager with prime contractor United Cleanup Oak Ridge said here Thursday. There are probably about five more years left on the existing Environmental […]
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Contracts & Procurement
DOE picking up Four Rivers option at Paducah, company exec says
SUMMERLIN, NEV. —Jacobs-led Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership will stay on beyond the five-year base period of its Deactivation and Remediation contract at the Paducah Site in Kentucky, the contractor’s chief operating officer said here Thursday. “I’m very happy to say that we got the option period to continue to work” for at least another three […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
GAO would examine quality assurance at DOE cleanup office under subcommittee NDAA plan
A House Armed Services Committee panel wants the Government Accountability Office to scrutinize quality assurance steps taken by the Depart of Energy’s $7.6-billion nuclear cleanup office, according to a House subcommittee draft of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2023. The House Armed Services’ strategic forces , subcommittee chaired by Rep. Jim Cooper, (D-Tenn.) […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Amentum defines roles for National Security biz group
Amentum, leading contractor for the Department of Energy and other government agencies, last week outlined management roles for a new National Security business group that the Maryland-based company is putting together under a corporate reshuffling by the new CEO. “Today, I am announcing the leaders of each of these three businesses [within National Security], as […]
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Reindustrialization & Redevelopment
Nuclear biz still figures into future at Oak Ridge
SUMMERLIN, NEV. — Started during the Manhattan Project days of the 1940s, nuclear technology continues to figure into plans for re-industrialization of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, attendees at the Radwaste Summit heard here Wednesday. Laura Wilkerson, DOE’s acting manager for the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and Kevin Ironside, […]
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Budget & Policy
Panel seeks $100M annually for low-dose radiation impact; DOE role undecided
A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committee is neutral on whether the Department of Energy should lead any revived federal research effort on potential health impacts of low-dose radiation, the head of the panel, said Friday. Tribal communities and atomic workers “generally do not support” a DOE-run low-dose radiation program, Joe Gray, professor […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Virginia small biz to provide support for EMCBC’s Denver office
Incumbent small business Inalab Consulting of Fairfax, Va., has been awarded a new five-year contract worth up to $4 million from the Department of Energy to provide support services to an Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center facility in Denver. The indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to Inalab, small-disadvantaged business under the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Program, […]