Vol. 35, No. 46

High-Level & Tank Waste

Hanford ‘weeks’ away from putting simulant waste into treatment plant

The Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at the Hanford site will begin processing non-radioactive simulant waste in ‘a few weeks,’ a site spokesperson said Monday. The non-radioactive simulant, which is still chemically hazardous, is a stand-in for the liquid radioactive waste the facility was built to solidify, according to the site. Processing the non-radioactive liquid […]
  • Contracts & Procurement

    GAO says more work needed on DOE procurements

    When it comes to overseeing billions of dollars’ worth of federal contracts, the Department of Energy, and its two nuclear weapons complex offices, still has work to do, a congressional watchdog agency said in a Thursday report. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) report said DOE, its National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and its Office of […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Without new contract, Hanford guards stop work pre-Thanksgiving

    News outlets in Washington state reported Tuesday members of Hanford Guards Union Local 21, which provides an armed protective force for the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, would stop work Wednesday before Thanksgiving due to expiration of their labor contract extension. The Tri-City Herald reported the guards’ union members were “locked out” due to expiration […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    Most SRS WIPP shipments in fiscal 24 resulted from downblend program

    More than half of the transuranic waste shipments hauled away from the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in fiscal 2024 came from plutonium downblending, a DOE spokesperson said last week. In response to an inquiry from Exchange Monitor, the spokesperson said via email that 35 of the 59 transuranic waste shipments sent to DOE’s  […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    GAO to rule on PPPO challenge by late February; no word on West Valley transition

    The Government Accountability Office plans to rule by Feb. 27 on a bid protest of a potentially $2.3-billion contract for the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office. The deadline shown in the online notice reflects the Government Accountability Office (GAO) 100-day time period for deciding contract protests. Elsewhere, there had been as of deadline for […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Steelworkers local prez upbeat on Portsmouth nickel

    A local union leader is optimistic that plans for a nickel recovery facility at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio will go ahead, even though a chief congressional backer lost his reelection bid. Last month, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) announced the Department of Energy was entering a partnership with contractor Leidos and […]

  • Budget & Policy

    GOP challenger concedes race against House appropriator Kaptur

    Derek Merrin (R) a member of the Ohio legislature has formally conceded his race in Ohio’s 9th congressional district against Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), a member of the House Appropriations Committee and one of the longest serving incumbents in congress. “The vote is we came about 2,300 votes short” after the provisional votes were counted in […]

  • News & Analysis

    Publication notice

    In observance of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, Weapons Complex Monitor will not publish on Friday, Nov. 29. The next issue will be published on Wednesday, Nov. 27.

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