Vol. 35, No. 13 AtkinsRéalis team again protests $45B Hanford tanks contract award
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Transuranic Waste
New Mexico says not so fast to shipments of stranded transuranic waste to WIPP from WCS
New Mexico wants assurance transuranic waste, held 10 years at a commercial storage facility in Texas, won’t pose an ignition threat before signing off on shipment to the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. As a result, DOE… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Hanford landlord asks court to throw out Justice Department False Claims Act case
The Leidos-led landlord at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site asked a federal court in Washington state Monday to throw out litigation by the Department of Justice and a whistleblower alleging the contractor padded its fire safety bills to the government… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Budget & Policy
White House seeks $47.2M for DNFSB in fiscal 2025
President Joe Biden requested $47.2 million for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board for the 2025 fiscal year starting Oct, 1, or $5.2 million than the $42 million recently appropriated by congress for the small watchdog agency in fiscal 2024. The White… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
UCOR receives extension to reply to wrongful discharge case
The Amentum-led environmental prime at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee has until April 2 to respond to a lawsuit by a former employee who claims he was fired in 2019 because of disability and whistleblower retaliation. Lawyers for plaintiff… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Reindustrialization & Redevelopment
Development group favors new nuclear, more local control of land around Hanford Site
The Tri-City Development Council thinks the best way to spur carbon-free power at the Hanford Site in Washington state is for the Department of Energy to transfer a chunk of buffer land there to local control, a vice president with the organization, David Reeploeg,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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Vitrification & Grout
Second Hanford vit plant melter reaches 2,100 degrees
The Department of Energy and contractor Bechtel National at the Hanford Site in Washington state have heated up the second melter at the vitrification plant to its operating temperature of 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit. The agency announced the heat up of the second… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Fired worker tells Sixth Circuit UCOR lacks sovereign immunity
A former radiation technician fired after refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine told a federal appeals court last week the Department of Energy’s environmental prime at Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee is not entitled to sovereign immunity. In a legal brief filed… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Reindustrialization & Redevelopment
Companies in electric power, nuclear enrichment, others attend WIPP clean energy day
An electric company serving New Mexico, representatives of a nearby uranium enrichment plant and various consulting, engineering and government groups showed up for the clean power information day at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant this… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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National Laboratories
Easy does it: Speed cameras planned at Los Alamos
Speed cameras will soon be installed to help curb speeding and aggressive driving along the truck route at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s top local fed told county officials last week. The laboratory… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up: LANL electric comments reviewed; Oak Ridge list posted; DOE awards $24.7M worth of grants and more
The Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is drafting its formal response to public comments filed on the Electrical Power Capacity Upgrade Project, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration field office said last… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]