Cleanup & Remediation

New Mexico Set to Propose $35M Fine for LANL, Separate Major Fine for WIPP

By Photo of Mike Nartker

Fines Connected to Both WIPP Incident and Los Alamos Cleanup
Kenneth Fletcher
WC Monitor
12/5/2014
The New Mexico Environment Department is planning in the next 10 days to take enforcement actions against the Department of Energy that could include about $35…

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U.K. Cleanup Focus

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DOE Again Asks LM Support Services Contract Bidders to Extend Proposals

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CH2M Hill Dropping Bid For New Idaho Cleanup Contract

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Survey: Approx. 60 Percent of EM Employees Satisfied With Jobs

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Senate Clears Some Pending DOE Nominees, But EM-1 Choice Still in Limbo

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DOE Officially Releases Details on Los Alamos Cleanup Transition to EM

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DOE Again Pushes Back Deadline for Bids on New Oak Ridge TWPC Contract

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Small Businesses Call For Improvements in DOE Contracting

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Former LANL Dep. Director Suspended from Gov’t Work

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Final FY15 Defense Bill Would Lower DNFSB Employee Cap

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Oak Ridge Mercury Strategy Complete, DOE Advancing Treatment Plant Design

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INTERA Drops Challenges to Navarro’s Win of New NNSS Contract

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Savannah River’s 235-F Risk Reduction Plan Delayed 29 Months

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After Acquisition and New Name, Security Firm Centerra Planning Expansion

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Final FY15 Defense Bill Would Establish Manhattan Project Park

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On WIPP

A worker in safety gear inspecting large concrete storage modules built to hold spent nuclear fuel containers.

At River Protection

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

At Richland

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

At Los Alamos

Two large concrete cooling towers standing at a nuclear plant site ahead of planned demolition.

At Oak Ridge

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

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