Publications: Weapons Cleanup Monitor

A partial government shutdown loomed after President-elect Donald Trump this week told congressional Republicans to oppose a three-month continuing resolution. With about 12 hours to go until a shutdown at deadline for Weapons Complex Monitor, lawmakers were still scrambling to find a bill that could pass the House. A backstop continuing resolution favored by Trump […]

Earnings fell at Amentum Holdings, Chantilly, Va., in fiscal 2024, although the company, which consolidated this summer with the government contracting and cyber wings of Jacobs, sees better days ahead with new  contracts entering the pipeline, such as at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington. For the company’s 2024 fiscal year ended Sept. […]

The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., received at least 36 shipments of transuranic waste in November, according to its public website. It takes about two weeks for shipments to appear on the DOE website. As of Wednesday, the latest received shipment posted was on Nov. 27, the day before Thanksgiving. […]

In observance of Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, Weapons Complex Monitor will not publish on Friday, Dec. 27 or Friday, Jan. 3. Look for the next issue in your inbox on Friday, Jan. 10. 

The lockout of unionized guards at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state is entering its fourth week with no resolution and both the union and landlord contractor spinning their own narrative on the labor dispute. Earlier this week, Hanford Guards Union Local 21 President Chris Hall issued a statement saying the reliance […]

Members of Hanford Guards Union Local 21 voted down the latest contract proposal Dec. 6 from the landlord contractor at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state, as the labor dispute entered a third week. As of Thursday, neither the Hanford Guards Union nor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) reported much headway in […]

Businesses interested in leasing warehouse space for the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state now have until Dec. 30 to formally express interest in a deal with the Leidos-led landlord contractor at the nuclear cleanup site. Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) initially published an online procurement notice Nov. 23 seeking a lease on […]

As of Dec. 8, the New Mexico Environment Department has 37 pages of emails with comments on the Department of Energy’s plan to define legacy transuranic waste for disposal at DOE’s deep underground disposal site near Carlsbad, N.M. Dec. 8 is roughly mid-way in the public comment period that runs through Jan. 3, on DOE’s […]

With time expiring soon on this congressional session, a longtime federal manager is still awaiting Senate confirmation to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. The nomination of William “Ike” White to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) was unanimously endorsed by the Senate Armed Services Committee in September. The full Senate has yet to […]

Mission Operations Alliance, a limited liability corporation, has filed a second bid protest with the Government Accountability Office over the Department of Energy’s $2.3-billion award to an Atkins-led group at former uranium enrichment sites in Ohio and Kentucky. The latest bid protest by the Bechtel-led Mission Operations Alliance was filed Dec. 6 with the Government […]

Concern over farmland damage by elk around the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory has federal and state authorities considering a plan to widen the hunting boundary around the DOE complex. DOE, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality are in the midst of a 30-day comment period on […]

Defense Environmental Cleanup, the largest pot of funding for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, would be authorized for a little more than $7 billion under the defense policy bill. That’s roughly the amount requested by the Biden administration. The bill gives DOE authority to accelerate nuclear cleanup in instances when doing so would benefit modernization […]

The Department of Energy’s legacy cleanup contractor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is having its final two-year option picked up by DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, the Huntington Ingalls Industries-led venture said Thursday. Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) said in a press release DOE is picking up its second and […]

The Department of Energy’s landlord contractor at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio last week signed a new contract with United Steelworkers members at the former gaseous diffusion plant, a union representative said Tuesday. A group of about 65 United Steelworkers (USW) Local 689 members ratified a new contract with North Wind Dynamics on Wednesday, Dec. […]

With field work done, a groundwater monitoring study is underway for a new low-level radioactive waste landfill being built at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, DOE said Tuesday. Earlier this year, 30 acres were cleared and roads rerouted so subcontractor CTI and Associates can study groundwater at the site of the […]

EnergySolutions, Salt Lake City, will consider putting nuclear reactors under development at Terrestrial Energy, a Charlotte, N.C., on some of the Utah-based company’s sites, the companies said Wednesday. In a joint press release, the companies said they signed a memorandum of understanding “to collaborate on the siting and deployment of Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) […]

A lake effect snow warning continues in effect into Saturday morning for the area around the West Valley Demonstration Project nuclear cleanup site in Western New York. New snow accumulations on Friday and into Saturday morning could range from 7 to  15 inches,, according to the forecast for West Valley, N.Y., about 35 miles south […]

The BWX Technologies-led joint venture assuming responsibility for managing liquid waste at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state has scheduled a couple of employee transition meetings for January. The sessions, announced in a Nov. 20 post on the Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure (H2C) website, will be set for Jan. 15 […]

Cotter Corporation and other defendants last week asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to reconsider whether litigation should be allowed to go forward by two sisters who blame their cancer on St. Louis area radioactive contamination dating to the Manhattan Project. The petition for rehearing was filed Nov. 27 by […]

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has refused a request by Physicians for Social Responsibility and other groups to fix what they deem a mistake in an earlier ruling concerning a public hiking trail near where the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado once stood. Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and other plaintiffs asked […]

The Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons complex has entered fiscal 2025 facing more than a half-trillion dollars in environmental liability, the rising threat of cyber-attack and the need to revive plutonium pit production. Those are a few takeaways in a DOE Office of Inspector General (OIG) management challenges report about the department’s Office of Environmental […]

Locked out for more than a week, Hanford Guards Union Local 21 members were to vote Friday on a new contract with the Department of Energy’s landlord for the Hanford Site in Washington state, a union official said Thursday.. Local 21 President Chris Hall told Exchange Monitor via email the union will vote on a […]

Department of Energy management at the Savannah River Site told a federal safety watchdog last month steps are underway to strengthen oversight by departmental facility representatives at the nuclear complex in South Carolina. The DOE Office of Environmental Management is employing “trending analysis” and improving collaboration and training for its facility representatives at the Savannah […]

When it comes to overseeing billions of dollars’ worth of federal contracts, the Department of Energy, and its two nuclear weapons complex offices, still has work to do, a congressional watchdog agency said in a Thursday report. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) report said DOE, its National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and its Office of […]

In observance of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, Weapons Complex Monitor will not publish on Friday, Nov. 29. The next issue will be published on Wednesday, Nov. 27.

The Government Accountability Office plans to rule by Feb. 27 on a bid protest of a potentially $2.3-billion contract for the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office. The deadline shown in the online notice reflects the Government Accountability Office (GAO) 100-day time period for deciding contract protests. Elsewhere, there had been as of deadline for […]

A local union leader is optimistic that plans for a nickel recovery facility at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio will go ahead, even though a chief congressional backer lost his reelection bid. Last month, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) announced the Department of Energy was entering a partnership with contractor Leidos and […]