Vol. 35, No. 28 
Full House Appropriations panel passes subcommittee bill with $8.3B for DOE cleanup
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Vitrification & Grout
Hanford faces deadline crush to sort out grouting options
By John Stang OLYMPIA, WASH. — The Hanford Site faces an extremely tight schedule to select both a technology and a destination for low-level radioactive waste intended to be immobilized in grout, the site’s top lawyer said here this week. “It is an aggressive… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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Budget & Policy
Senate votes to confirm Lee to DNFSB
The full Senate Tuesday voted 54-to-41, mostly upon party lines, to confirm the nomination of Patricia Lee, a manager at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina, to be a member of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE, New Mexico reach partial accord on LANL cleanup; talks continue
A federal judge in New Mexico granted the Department of Energy and the New Mexico Environment Department until Oct. 7 to continue settlement talks on changes to agreements governing legacy waste cleanup at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. U.S. Magistrate Judge… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Portsmouth cleanup, DUF6 incumbent to get another DOE extension
In notices last week, the Department of Energy said it plans to again extend incumbent cleanup contractors at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio and the Paducah Site in Kentucky for up to a year. DOE published a notice of intent July 2 to extend the Decontamination &… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! […]
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Budget & Policy
Senate committee’s NDAA backs $7B for defense environmental; allows speedier cleanup at NNSA sites
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of a must-pass defense policy bill would again authorize more than $7 billion for the Department of Energy to carry out Defense Environmental Cleanup at nuclear weapons complex sites. Language in the nearly 1,200-page… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE’s nuclear cleanup office needs program management upgrades, GAO says
The Department of Energy’s $8-billion nuclear cleanup branch has started implementing some best practices sought by the Government Accountability Office but still has far to go, according to a report out Monday. The DOE Office of Environmental Management “is… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Budget & Policy
Senate defense bill seeks GAO report on DNFSB
The Senate Armed Services Committee wants the Government Accountability Office to examine the culture and workings of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, according to a bill report the committee published this week. “Recent assessments from the National… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Contracts & Procurement
DOE updates contractor diversity expectations amid House GOP pushback
Department of Energy contractors should consider requiring “diversity training” when developing diversity plans, according to the latest version of its acquisition guide, published this week. That’s despite recent pushback by Republican House appropriators. Diversity… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. Email […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap up: WIPP DNFSB briefing delayed until September; Top EM/NNSA bosses to appear in Santa Fe; WRPS seeks sub; more
The Department of Energy says it will take 60 more days, until mid-September, for it to prepare a report and briefing addressing Defense Nuclear Facilities Board concerns about continuous monitoring for a new ventilation system at the agency’s deep-underground… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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News & Analysis
Correction
The story “Ecology posts demo permit for 2,000-gallon test bed, challenge possible” [Weapons Complex Monitor, Volume 35, No. 27] should have said DOE plans to transport the pretreated waste liquid waste out-of-state for grouting and disposal. SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]