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NNSA eyes 2027 RFQ for TEST 4 technical support contract
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The National Nuclear Security Administration expects to release a draft request for quotations (RFQ) for its Technical and Engineering Program Support 4 contract, or TEST 4, in January 2027, with the agency targeting contract performance beginning later that year. B.J. Quigley, NNSA’s senior procurement executive, said at the Energy Technology and Environmental […]
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Nuclear Energy & Radwaste Monitor
Round Up: Kentucky issues reactor pilot program solicitation; General Atomics to lead nuclear waste program; Colton joins DOE NE as senior adviser
Kentucky state’s nuclear energy department issued a request for information (RFI) late last week to gauge interest in its nuclear reactor pilot program. According to the Oct. 16 RFI, the responses to the solicitation are due by Nov. 6 at 5 p.m. Eastern Time. Responses from utilities, nuclear reactor developers, prospective utility customers and other […]
Weapons Cleanup Monitor
Fire put out Wednesday at Savannah River National Lab
A Wednesday evening fire led the Department of Energy to declare an emergency event at the Savannah River National Laboratory near Aiken, S.C., DOE said in a press release. Management “declared a Site Area Emergency at 5:39 p.m.” Eastern Time, according to the news release issued two hours later, adding the fire had been extinguished. […]
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
WIPP experienced two ‘near misses’ in August, DNFSB says
The Department of Energy’s disposal site for defense-related transuranic waste narrowly avoided two accidents in August, according to a September staff report from the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB). There were two separate “near miss” episodes, one on Aug. 3 and one on Aug. 6, at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), according to […]
