Vol. 33, No. 39 
BWXT leading own team for Portsmouth decommissioning contract
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Vitrification & Grout
DOE starts up first melter at Hanford vitrification plant
As the top boss at the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup office promised last week, crews at the Hanford Site in Washington state are heating up a giant melter designed to solidify radioactive tank waste into a glass form at the $17-billion Waste Treatment… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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Transuranic Waste
Clock ticking on GAO investigation of WIPP contract protests
In a matter of weeks, the Government Accountability Office could rule on two protests against the Department of Energy’s decision to let a Bechtel National-led group run the agency’s only underground repository for defense-related transuranic waste. There are… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP takes in 22 shipments of TRU during September
The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., received 22 shipments of transuranic waste during September, an agency spokesperson said this week. The monthly tally is slightly less than the August total of 25. The figure far exceeds… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Cameco, Brookfield Renewable to buy Westinghouse
Uranium fuel company Cameco and environmental investment firm Brookfield Renewable Partners announced this week a strategic partnership aimed at purchasing Westinghouse Electric Company, according to a press release. If the deal closes as planned, Cameco will own… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
DOE to start removing waste from single-shell tank next month
A Department of Energy contractor at the Hanford Site in Washington state will commence retrieving radioactive waste from a single-shell tank next month, a federal safety board said recently. Amentum-led contractor Washington River Protection Solutions plans to… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Change of guard occurring in Navarro leadership ranks
There is a changing at the guard in upper management ranks of Oak Ridge, Tenn.,-based Navarro Research & Engineering as Ryan Overton, formerly of GEM Technologies, becoming executive vice president, gradually takes over the role from industry vet Cathy Hickey… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Naval Nuclear Propulsion
Feds, state detail $260M-plus plan for cleaning up Naval Reactor sites at Idaho
State and federal agencies said in a Wednesday analysis that teardown and removal of old U.S. Naval submarine reactor prototype facilities at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory is the best remediation option. That is according to an engineering… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Contractors could plead to submitting false bills at Savannah River
Two research contractors for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory could enter guilty pleas next week for allegedly submitting false bills to the federal agency for nearly a decade, according to filings in the U.S. District Court for South… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Naval Nuclear Propulsion
Wrap Up: RSI contract ceiling to rise; New Mexico talks continue; consultant joins LATA
The Department of Energy said this week it plans to increase the ceiling on a small business contract held by RSI Services to $47 million from $22 million for demolition and removal work at two Naval Reactor sites in New York state. Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based RSI won… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Correction
The story “UCOR takes home 85% of its potential fee; discusses new Oak Ridge contract” in [Weapons Complex Monitor, Vol. 33, No. 38] should have said that an Amentum-Jacobs team won 85% of its potential fee from the Department of Energy for its remediation… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]