Vol. 33, No. 40 Brakes applied by DOE on Hanford melter warmup due to alarm
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Start of third run at Hanford TSCR now expected in 2023; DOE seeks to answer safety board questions
The Department of Energy expects it will be early 2023 before an Amentum-led contractor starts pretreating its third batch of low-level radioactive tank waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state. An ongoing planned outage could take a few more months, a DOE… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
‘Integrated team’ to hash out Savannah River Site’s transfer to nuclear-weapons agency
The Department of Energy could be prepared to start transferring control of the Savannah River Site to its semiautonomous nuclear-weapons agency in bits and pieces starting around 2023, a spokesperson at Washington headquarters said Monday. DOE’s Office of Environmental Management (EM), which owns the Aiken, S.C., site now, and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), […]
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Defense & Military
GOP senator seeks action from Biden, Army Corps over school FUSRAP contamination
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) Wednesday urged President Joe Biden to declare a federal emergency after the Hazelwood, Mo., school board voted to stop using a local elementary school near which radioactive contamination has been found from a Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
IWTU startup seen in November, state says
The Department of Energy intends in November to start up the long-delayed Integrated Waste Treatment Unit at the Idaho National Laboratory, the federal agency told state officials. That was the target DOE’s Office of Environmental Management gave officials with… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Transuranic Waste
Idaho, WIPP’s biggest shipper, doesn’t stay blocked for long
The Department of Energy is again sending transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., from the Idaho National Laboratory after New Mexico regulators lifted a hold on the shipments. Idaho resumed sending waste canisters to WIPP… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Wash. state agency has hearing on slate for disputed Hanford tank-leak agreement
The Washington Pollution Control Hearings Board was set Friday to hold a hearing about an environmental group’s appeal of an agreement between the state and the Department of Energy about emptying two leaky radioactive waste tanks at the Hanford Site. Seattle-based… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
DOE procurement office lays out foreign ownership disclosure requirements
The Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup procurement office last week laid out what type of foreign ownership and control disclosures bidders should be ready to provide when pursuing contracts in the weapons complex. The DOE’s Cincinnati-based Environmental… 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
Guilty pleas entered by contractors Greenway Energy, Savannah River Consulting
Two research contractors at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal district court after being accused of filing false bills with the government. Greenway Energy and Savannah River Consulting both… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Wrap Up: DOJ locating prosecutors in Richland; Murray files benefits bill; Hanford dubbed storm-ready
The U.S. Department of Justice is opening a U.S. Attorney’s Office branch in Richland, Wash., near the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, Vanessa Waldref, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington said Oct. 14 in a press release. Federal prosecutors… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]