Vol. 35, No. 14 
$45B Hanford award spawns 3 court cases so far; next BWXT filing due April 22
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Cleanup & Remediation
Environmental Management creates tech officer silo, another change troubles ECA
The Department of Energy’s $8-billion-plus Office of Environmental Management is creating a new chief technology office silo and making other organizational tweaks, one of which troubles the head of the Energy Communities Alliance. The changes were announced… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Budget & Policy
DNFSB touts 2023 safety work in report to Congress
During 2023, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board advised the Department of Energy on issues ranging from on-site transportation at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to overseeing aging nuclear infrastructure across the weapons complex. Those… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Paducah, West Valley prepare for solar eclipse
A couple of Department of Energy nuclear cleanup sites could experience the total or near-total eclipse of the sun this coming Monday, April 8. Paducah, Ky., home to DOE’s Paducah Site, is the only weapons complex cleanup site in the “totality” path, according… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Hanford sends drums of sodium waste to Tennessee for treatment
The environmental prime at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state shipped 15 drums of sodium waste generated by old research reactors to Tennessee for treatment, the agency said this week in a press release. At the end of February, Amentum-led… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
UCOR balks at providing vax records for non-litigants as COVID cases advance
The cleanup prime at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee should not be forced to hand over COVID-19 vaccination data for 100 people uninvolved with litigation filed by three fired employees, the company said this week in legal papers. Plaintiffs Carlton Speer, Melana… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Down to one plaintiff, trial set this month in COVID case against ORNL prime
The lone remaining plaintiff in a COVID-19 vaccination lawsuit was set to go to trial this month with the prime contractor for the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. In filings during March, the U.S. District Court for Eastern… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Reindustrialization & Redevelopment
Deadline extended on Nevada Clean Energy RFQ until tax day
April 15 is the new deadline for potential developers of carbon-free energy projects to respond to a request for qualifications at the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site. Sunday March 31 was the prior deadline for responses to the request for… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Reindustrialization & Redevelopment
SRS solar developer faces August deadline for power line hookup
Potential solar project developers at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina should file an application to interconnect to the electric grid by Aug. 30, according to a slide presentation on the government’s clean power initiative. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Extra week granted in Deepwater FUSRAP cleanup solicitation
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District is extending by a week, to April 11, its deadline for responses to its request for information for a small business to perform environmental remediation at the Deepwater site in New Jersey. The original response… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Decommissioning
Federal judge considers next step in lawsuit over Rocky Flats Refuge trail
It is up to a federal district judge in Washington, D.C., to decide what comes next in an advocacy group’s lawsuit to force an additional environmental review for a hiking trail near what used to be the Department of Energy’s Rocky Flats plant in Colorado. U.S.… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE plans DUF6 extension; Spent fuel hearing set; ex-EM Los Alamos boss takes NNSA post and more
As expected, the Department of Energy said this week it plans to issue a six-month contract extension to Atkins-led Mid-America Conversion Services for operation of depleted uranium conversion facilities at former gaseous diffusion plants in Kentucky and Ohio. DOE’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]