Vol. 34, No. 11 
Hanford spending would hit record $3B under Biden fiscal 2024 request; House hearing next week
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Cleanup & Remediation
N3B lands another 3 years at Los Alamos; board questions stop-work orders
The Department of Energy’s Huntington Ingalls-led legacy cleanup team at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is being extended for another three years, a company official told a federal advisory board meeting this week. Newport News Nuclear BWXT… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Decommissioning
Uranium cleanup fund would get big DOE Environmental Management infusion again in fiscal 2024
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management would, after helping prop up the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund again in fiscal 2024, effectively stay flat at $8.3 billion, according to White House budget request details released this week. The Republican-controlled House Appropriations Committee has scheduled a hearing on the DOE spending request next […]
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Vitrification & Grout
Hanford vit plant glass-making expected now by 2025, DOE says in budget doc
The Department of Energy is “on track” to start solidifying liquid radioactive waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state “no later than 2025,” the agency said in its latest budget request this week. That timeline, less optimistic than the December 2023 goal the DOE’s Office of Environmental Management was targeting until a few months […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Cesium pretreatment for waste solidification resumes at Hanford Site
A contractor for the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state has, after an extended outage, restarted a cesium pretreatment pilot project critical to waste solidification at the site, the DOE said this week. Tank operations manager Washington… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP receives 32 TRU shipments in February; pace still below DOE goals
The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., received 32 shipments of transuranic waste during February, according to the facility’s public website. The latest monthly figure shows progress over the prior year shipment period,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP shaft sinking reaches midway point
Workers at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., are roughly halfway through sinking a new underground utility shaft, site managers said Thursday. Shaft-sinking crews recently surpassed the midway point at 1,076-feet deep,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Savannah River cleanup boss talks NNSA move; other issues
Work continues on transfer of the Savannah River Site landlord authority to the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration, the top cleanup fed at the South Carolina complex told a DOE advisory panel this week. A joint team… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
State regulator of Savannah River Site could be split in two
Bills pending before the South Carolina legislature could split the state regulator for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site near Aiken into two separate organizations, a state agency official told the Citizens Advisory Board for the federal complex… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Budget & Policy
DNFSB budget would rise to $47 million in fiscal 2024, under Biden request
President Joe Biden’s administration requested $47.2 million in funding for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board for fiscal year 2024, up from $41.4 million this year. That is according to the 1,350-page appendix to the fiscal 2024 budget request released… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up: RFP lull, see you in September; Ex-WIPP boss joins UCOR; Talks continue on ORNL vax case; Oak Ridge panel gets new members; Oscars ad touts Oppenheimer flick
A small business solicitation for nuclear cleanup, expected out within the next month, could be the only new one to hit the street by August, the Department of Energy Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center said this week. The DOE previously said… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]