Vol. 33, No. 30 Senate FY23 approps bill would set high-water mark for EM spending; crank up Hanford budget
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Transuranic Waste
National TRU Solutions protests DOE award of WIPP prime contract to Bechtel
National TRU Solutions, a joint venture led by Huntington Ingalls Industries, filed a bid protest Tuesday challenging the Department of Energy’s selection of a Bechtel entity for a contract worth up to $3 billion to operate the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Transuranic Waste
Local COVID rate improves at WIPP, per CDC data
The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., this week saw its community rate for COVID-19 drop to “medium” from “high,” according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As a result, it appears the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DNFSB favors outside analysis of WTP high-level facility at Hanford
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board favors having a national lab study the risk of a potential hydrogen explosion at a high-level radioactive waste vitrification plant being built at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state. In a document… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
GAO urges Congress to clarify if DOE can sell depleted uranium
Congress should enact legislation to clarify the Department of Energy’s authority to sell depleted uranium to private entities, the Government Accountability Office said this week, because such a move could curb the $7.2 billion cost to dispose of the material. As… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Fluor-BWXT takes home 75% of potential fee for recent Portsmouth remediation
Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth earned 75% of its total potential fee and about 82% of its subjective fee from the Department of Energy for its cleanup work at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio for the 12-month period ended March 28, according to a just-released scorecard. Overall,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
GAO seeks more details on carryover funds in DOE weapons complex
The Government Accountability Office is urging the Department of Energy to provide more details on how its nuclear weapons and cleanup programs handle federal funds carried over from prior-year budgets. At the end of fiscal 2021 the DOE’s Office of Environmental… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Transuranic Waste
Most Los Alamos TRU waste not yet ready for WIPP shipment
The inventory of defense-related transuranic waste at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico amounts to more than 3,300 containers, but most are not “ready to ship” to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the Department of Energy’s Carlsbad Field Office… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Savannah River advisory board briefed on SWPF, other issues
The Salt Waste Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina has treated over 991,000 gallons of waste so far in fiscal 2022, a Department of Energy official told the Citizens Advisory Board for the site Monday. “We just recently completed… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Spill investigation, remediation planning underway at SRS
A top federal manager for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina said Monday the agency is continuing to investigate the cause of a July 4 spill of low-level radioactively contaminated water near H Canyon. “We are taking a very hard… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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Budget & Policy
Federal judge familiar with nuclear cases wins seat on D.C. Circuit
U.S. District Judge Julianna Michelle Childs, who presided over a number of Department of Energy nuclear cases in South Carolina, and who was publicly discussed as a contender for a U.S. Supreme vacancy, has won confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up: Smoot steps in at BWXT; Bid deadline extended at Paducah; small biz award at Hanford
With the retirement of a top executive, Sharon Smoot will step in as president of BWX Technologies’ Nuclear Operations Group effective Aug. 1, the company said in a press release Wednesday morning. In her new role, Smoot will be responsible for the operations… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]