Vol. 33, No. 32 
Texas, DOE remain in holding pattern over stranded waste at WCS
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Cleanup & Remediation
APTIM-North Wind construction contract at Oak Ridge could be extended
An APTIM-North Wind joint venture that ran into bad luck and bedrock while building the Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee may have its contract extended beyond the current Dec. 5 expiration, a Department of Energy spokesperson said recently. “The Mercury Treatment Facility is scheduled to be operational in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Appeals court could hear Swift & Staley arguments this year; legal papers unsealed
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., could hear oral arguments as early as October in the long-running litigation on whether Swift & Staley should have been disqualified for the new Paducah Infrastructure Support Services Contract awarded by the Department of Energy in December 2020. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Tuesday […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
BWXT reports strong quarter on rising earnings, revenue
While it did not generate much chatter Monday during a quarterly earnings call focused on strong numbers, BWX Technologies is in the running for billions more in government contracts across the Department of Energy weapons complex over the next year. Having already won the $21-billion, 15-year Savannah River Integrated Mission contract for liquid waste cleanup […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Newhouse edges Democrat; incumbent Herrera Beutler concedes primary loss
Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.), whose 4th congressional district includes the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, is the evident winner of an open primary, despite being one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 capitol insurrection. But Newhouse’s fellow House Appropriations Committee member in a neighboring district, who […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Groups ask President Biden to increase funding for Hanford cleanup
With Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm set to visit the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state Friday a coalition of organizations wrote President Joe Biden Tuesday urging a $1 billion increase in cleanup funding for the former plutonium production site. “Given its role as the workhorse for plutonium production, the scope of Hanford’s cleanup […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Onsite COVID cases decline for EM; handful of sites have high local rates
The number of active onsite cases of COVID-19 at the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management sites fell this week, according to a spokesperson for the cleanup office. There were 162 active cases of the virus among Environmental Management (EM) and contractor staff who don’t telework, the spokesperson said in a Thursday email. That […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
COVID-19 vaccination lawsuit against SRS prime dropped
A lawsuit against the Department of Energy’s prime contractor at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, filed by about 80 employees who objected to its COVID-19 vaccination policy, was dismissed. The plaintiffs, led by Shawn Phillip Rhoades, and defendant Savannah River Nuclear Solutions filed a joint motion for dismissal dated Thursday in the U.S. […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
First two TSCR batches have pretreated 380K gallons of waste at Hanford
The Department of Energy says the Tank-Side Cesium Removal project at the Hanford Site in Washington state has now pretreated 380,000 gallons of low-level radioactive tank waste before entering its latest outage on July 20. More than 182,000 gallons of tank waste was treated in Batch 2, which began on June 18 and concluded July […]
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Transuranic Waste
New Mexico group presses for a WIPP end date, more transparency
A New Mexico citizens group that is a frequent critic of the Department of Energy wants a firm end date for closure of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., and greater transparency surrounding the federal transuranic waste program. In addition, Don Hancock, nuclear waste program director at Southwest Research and Information Center, told […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up: SRS researcher OK after snake bite; Perma-Fix reports earnings; WMD session planned
A University of Georgia research associate at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina was “treated and hospitalized for a few days for observation,” after being bitten by a poisonous copperhead snake July 22, a spokesperson said Wednesday. “The individual is fully recovered and returned to work,” Vicky Sutton-Jackson, a spokesperson for […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Publication notice
Weapons Complex Monitor will not be published on Aug. 19, 2022 or Aug. 26, 2022, as part of the Exchange Monitor’s annual August recess. Look for the next issue in your inbox on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022.