Vol. 34, No. 20 
NRC says its OK to move stranded Los Alamos waste to a WCS enclosure
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Contracts & Procurement
DOE to delay transition to BWXT-led tank team at Hanford pending court protest
The Department of Energy will not begin transition to a new BWX Technologies-led contractor at the Hanford Site in Washington state until a legal challenge of the $45-billion liquid-waste contract is resolved in court, according to a May 12 court filing. The Department of Justice confirmed May 8 that DOE would stay performance of the […]
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Vitrification & Grout
Contractor plans steady climb to double SWPF throughput
The Department of Energy aims to use an advanced new solvent by the end of fiscal 2025 to improve the numbers at the Salt Waste Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, a cleanup contractor boss told a federal advisory board Tuesday. Other glitches at the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) should […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Savannah River citizen panel updated on NNSA transition, saltstone disposal, security, changes in state regulator
Savannah River citizen panel updated on NNSA transition, saltstone disposal, security, changes in state regulator Federal officials next month could rough out the plan for handing over the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons branch from the agency’s cleanup office, a local fed told an advisory board Monday. […]
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP appears headed for best year since 2017 reopening
The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico appears headed for its busiest calendar year since the disposal site reopened in 2017. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) received 47 shipments of defense-related transuranic waste during the month of April, based upon a search of DOE’s public website for the facility this […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Portsmouth contractor group denies liability in cancer lawsuit
In court papers filed this week, current and past contractors at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio deny their work led to the cancer suffered by a former student at a now-closed middle school near the nuclear cleanup property. In a 12-page document filed Monday in U.S. District Court for Southern Ohio, the […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Pandemic rules over, but Hanford workers lawyers want to keep litigating COVID suit
The White House has ended remaining COVID-19 federal jobsite vaccination rules triggered by two 2021 executive orders but attorneys for 315 workers at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site say the legal fight should go on. The administration of President Joe Biden (D) and other defendants in David Donovan versus Brian Vance “have not relinquished […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Oak Ridge Lab contractor makes ‘last, best’ settlement offer to COVID plaintiffs
The prime contractor for the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee has made its “last, best and final’ offer to settle with a handful of employees who sued over COVID-19 vaccination policy, according to recently-filed federal court papers. UT-Battelle, the University of Tennessee-Battelle venture that runs the Oak Ridge lab for DOE, […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Wrap Up: Biz office shops for support; Oak Ridge, firm seeks new city manager; NNSS builds emergency center
The Department of Energy’s Cincinnati-based Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center is in the market for small companies to support upcoming procurements in the weapons complex. The Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC) on Tuesday published a combined sources sought and request for information for small businesses designated as an Indian Tribe or Alaska Native Corporation […]