Vol. 35, No. 35 
Judge rules for BWXT in case of Hanford liquid waste contract
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE and New Mexico sign new agreement for Los Alamos legacy cleanup
After three years of litigation, the Department of Energy and the administration of Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) settled on a new agreement for cleaning up legacy radioactive waste at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The New Mexico Environment… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Budget & Policy
Vote canned on House Speaker Johnson’s stopgap budget
WASHINGTON — House speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced Wednesday in Washington that he was pulling his stopgap six-month GOP spending bill that would extend federal agencies’ 2024 budgets from its scheduled House floor vote. The bill was mostly clean for the Department of Energy aside from an anomaly that grants the agency permission “to sustain specialized security […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
IWTU resumes liquid waste cleanup after five-month outage, DOE says
The Integrated Waste Treatment Unit is again solidifying sodium-bearing liquid waste at the Idaho National Laboratory, a Department of Energy spokesperson said Thursday in an email. “During maintenance, engineers replaced granulated activated carbon beds, which… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE sticking with November deadline for cold commissioning of Hanford waste treatment plant
A federal advisory panel heard Tuesday the Department of Energy’s top manager at the Hanford Site in Washington state still expects to start making test glass in November from a simulant designed to mimic low-level radioactive tank waste. DOE site manager Brian… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Hanford consolidates field offices Oct. 1; advisory board member worries
The Department of Energy is bidding adieu to its Office of River Protection and Richland Operations Office in Washington state effective Oct. 1, DOE’s manager for the Hanford Site said Tuesday. “We are going to be the Hanford Field Office, it’s going to be… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Environmental Management to evaluate effectiveness of citizen advisory boards by early 2026
The Department of Energy’s nuclear-weapons cleanup office will by January 2026 evaluate the effectiveness of nine citizen-staffed boards that provide non-binding advice to the agency, the office said in a report published Monday. DOE’s Office of Environmental… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Former LANL director McMillan dies in car crash in Los Alamos
Charles McMillan, 69, the former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, died Friday morning, Sept. 6, in a car crash in New Mexico, people familiar with the situation told Weapons Complex Morning Briefing. The Los Alamos National Laboratory acknowledged… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up: Jacobs-Amentum combo becomes final in 2 weeks; SRS lawmaker hospitalized; ECA wants review of DOE nuclear cleanup; more
One of the largest business mergers in the Department of Energy’s weapons complex in recent years should be completed Friday Sept. 27, Dallas-based Jacobs Solutions said Sept 13. The spin-off and merger of Jacobs’ Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber &… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]