Vol. 36, No. 09 
Longtime DOE hand Chung becomes acting EM chief
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Transuranic Waste
Senator says EnergySec Wright will preserve WIPP, Carlsbad facilities
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) says Energy Secretary Chris Wright has promised the Department of Energy’s Carlsbad Field Office and Waste Isolation Pilot Plant facilities in New Mexico will stay open. “I’m pleased to announce that on my call with Secretary Wright, he promised they will stay open,” Heinrich said in a Thursday post on the […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Carlsbad, Los Alamos could be hard hit by EM buyouts
Two Department of Energy nuclear cleanup offices in New Mexico could be hard hit by the White House deferred-resignation program, according to a list viewed by Exchange Monitor. The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management field offices at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Carlsbad, N.M., office that oversees the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant […]
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Transuranic Waste
Commissioning of new WIPP ventilation system is done, DOE says
The Department of Energy said Tuesday it has finished commissioning the long-anticipated new underground ventilation system for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. The roughly $500-million Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) is designed to more than triple underground airflow to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), to 540-,000 cubic feet per minute, […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
GAO 2025 high-risk update cites progress for DOE nuclear cleanup
Outlays at the Department of Energy as well as the Department of Defense are two areas that remain among the federal government’s “high-risk areas needing significant attention,” Comptroller General Gene Dodaro said last week in testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. On the other hand, DOE’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) is […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Jeff Kendall appointed president of AtkinsRéalis US nuclear business
AtkinsRéalis has appointed Jeff Kendall as president of the company’s US nuclear business, the engineering services and nuclear company announced Wednesday. According to the company’s press release, Kendall had been with AtkinsRéalis for seven years, with his most recent position being interim president for the US business. In the seven years he also served as […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE health and safety boss accepts buyout
Kevin Dressman, a longtime federal manager who heads the Department of Energy’s Office of Health and Safety, said this week he has accepted a deferred resignation buyout and will leave government after more than 30 years. Dressman announced his departure Tuesday on his LinkedIn profile page. “After 33 years of federal service, I have elected […]
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Innovation & Infrastructure
June completion planned for SRNL manufacturing center
The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site could see completion of its Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative this June at the nearby University of South Carolina-Aiken, a spokesperson said recently. Construction of the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative was 85% completed In November 2024. Contractor North Wind Group started building it in March 2023 and will wrap up this […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up: Canada inks reactor deal; LANL collects radioactive devices; Amentum hires top legal officer; more
The government of Canada announced this week it is entering into a four-year contract worth up to C$304 million with AtkinsRéalis to support the development and modernization of a new, large-scale, natural uranium–fuelled Canadian deuterium uranium (CANDU) nuclear reactor. The contract with AtkinsRéalis is meant to finance half of the design project, according to the […]