Publications: Weapons Cleanup Monitor

DOE LOOKS TO TRUCK CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER The Department of Energy is proposing pumping up and trucking the “perched” underground contaminated water at Hanford’s 200-DV-1 Operable Unit  to the new 200 West Pump and Treat Facility in central Hanford. Some of the contaminated water already has been cleaned in a successful test at Hanford’s Effluent Treatment […]

A working group between the Department of Energy and the state of Nevada met a second time last week to discuss a  controversial batch of uranium-233 that DOE hopes to dispose of at the Nevada National Security Site. 

The Department of Energy plans to make a decision within the next 60 days on whether it will combine the infrastructure support services contracts at the Portsmouth and Paducah sites into one new contract, DOE spokesman Bill Taylor said this week. 

Portage earned 96 percent of its available award fee in Fiscal Year 2013—approximately $1.1 million out of $1.14 million—for its work on the Moab uranium mill tailings remediation project in Utah, according to information the Department of Energy released this week.

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 2/7/2014 IN THE INDUSTRY Marking the first time a nonfamily member has been selected to lead Bechtel, Bill Dudley has been named the company’s new President and CEO, effective immediately. Dudley, who previously held the position of president and chief operating officer, replaces Riley Bechtel, who is “stepping down for health […]