Vol. 34, No. 27 Fight over $45B Hanford tank contract could end up back in federal court
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Cleanup & Remediation
Honeywell sells its stake in Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
Charlotte, N.C.-based Honeywell has sold its stake in the Fluor-led joint venture that runs the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina, the company said this week. The company has divested its interest in Savannah River Nuclear Solutions to the remaining partners, Fluor and Huntington Ingalls Industries, Honeywell said in a Monday press […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE suspends work at Hanford’s 324 building as more contamination found
The Department of Energy and its Amentum-led contractor have suspended work stabilizing the 324 Building within the Hanford Site in Washington state after discovering far more radiologically-contaminated soil underneath than previously thought. Scientists from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have confirmed that “a much larger volume of highly contaminated soil will need to be remediated […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Feds dispute state power to require decontamination showers at Hanford disposal site
The Department of Energy says it, not Washington state, can decide whether to install “decontamination showers” for a radioactive waste disposal facility at the Hanford Site, the feds said in a recent appeal to a state administrative panel. The Washington state Department of Ecology “does not have the authority to require Energy to install decontamination […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE starts market research from scratch on new Paducah landlord contract
After a legal battle concluded the December 2020 winner of the Infrastructure Support Services business for the Department of Energy’s Paducah Site in Kentucky too large for the small business set-aside award, the agency is doing fresh market research for a new landlord contractor. The DOE Office of Environmental Management on Friday June 30 published […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up; Org chart changes at West Valley; governors group gets grant; Westinghouse files papers on microreactors
The No. 2 Department of Energy manager at the West Valley Demonstration Project in western New York, Craig Rieman, has left to take another job within the agency, members of a local task force heard last week. Bryan Bower, DOE’s manager of the West Valley cleanup, announced the move last Wednesday, June 28, during a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Correction
The story “Acting boss Ike White hits work anniversary at EM” [Weapons Complex Monitor, Vol. 34, No. 26] should have said William (Ike) White has now been at the helm of the Office of Environmental Management for four years.