Vol. 37, No. 15 
Wright says Hanford budget haircut won’t slow ongoing glass making
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Transuranic Waste
Post-outage, WIPP receives 25 shipments in March.
The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) recorded 25 transuranic (TRU) waste shipments in March, following an annual maintenance outage that kept it offline since January. The 25 shipments are the first since the facility accepted 33 shipments… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Nuclear consolidation continues as EnergySolutions buys WMG
The recent trend of nuclear sector consolidation is continuing as Salt Lake-based EnergySolutions said Thursday it has bought WMG, a provider of engineering services and software. WMG was founded in 1979 and is known in part for its trademarked RADMAN software… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Contracts & Procurement
EnergySolutions picks Drom to manage federal support biz
EnergySolutions said Monday on LinkedIn it has appointed a familiar face, Andrew Drom, as its new senior vice president for its Federal Support business unit. Although he just joined the Salt Lake City-based company April 6, this is Drom’s second tour of duty… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Local newspaper editorial takes aim at DOE budget request for Hanford
In a Sunday editorial, the Tri-City Herald newspaper in Richland, Wash., blasted the Donald Trump administration’s fiscal 2027 request that would cut by more than $390-million the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup budget for the Hanford Site. While Hanford… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Woman pleads guilty to stealing $54K of Savannah River Site pension money
A South Carolina woman pleaded guilty last week to stealing money from her deceased relative’s pension benefits earned from working at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site. On April 9, the Department of Justice announced Effie Mae Youmans, 71, of… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap Up: DOE cites Moab tailings work; Los Alamos lab promotes exec; Japan looks at island for waste; nuclear cruising; more
Officials in Grand County, Utah joined Department of Energy representatives April 9 to celebrate removal of 16 million tons of tailings from a site next to the Colorado River as part of the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project. DOE said. Commemorative… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged […]