Department of Energy

The Senate Tuesday voted 52-to-44 to confirm James Danly, a former member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, to be deputy secretary of energy. The vote was along party lines with four senators, two Democrats and two Republicans, not voting. Danly, an attorney and U.S. Army veteran from Tennessee, was nominated to the position by […]

Work crews at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio have started removing asbestos-laden outer panels from the mammoth X-333 Process Building at the old uranium enrichment complex. Workers are removing 16,000 transite panels from the X-333 Process Building over the next year and a half, the DOE Office of Environmental Management said in […]

The Donald Trump administration has asked the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge in Northern California that suspends mass layoffs at federal agencies. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston issued a decision May 9 blocking the Departments of Defense, Energy, Interior and others temporarily blocking […]

AtkinsRéalis Group, Montreal, Canada, which trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange, has scheduled its first quarter earnings conference call on Friday starting at 8 a.m. Eastern Time. The earnings conference call will be webcast. Later that day, the company will also hold its annual shareholder meeting. The U.S. branch of AtkinsRéalis Group is a major […]

Here are events related to nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking: May:  14: Meeting: The Northern New Mexico Site Specific Advisory board holds a virtual meeting starting at 1 p.m. Mountain Time.  14: Meeting: Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory board meets in a hybrid session starting at 6 p.m. E.T. at DOE’s Office […]

The Senate has agreed to a cloture motion that could clear the way for the chamber to vote on President Donald Trump’s nomination of James Danly to be deputy secretary of energy. The Senate in a voice vote on Thursday May 8 agreed to “proceed to executive session’” for  consideration of the Danly nomination, according […]

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on April 30 favorably reported out two of President Donald Trump’s Department of Energy nominees. The committee endorsed Preston Wells Griffith to be undersecretary of energy and Dario Gil to be undersecretary of energy for science. Both nominations are being placed on the Senate executive calendar, one of […]

On Thursday, Ontario Power Generation received approval from the Province of Ontario to build its first small modular reactor at the Darlington New Nuclear Site in Clarington, Ontario. With a target date of 2030 for operation, OPG will build its first BWRX-300 SMR at the Darlington site. The company intends to build a fleet of […]

WASHINGTON – Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), ranking member of the House Appropriations Energy and Water subcommittee, told Secretary of Energy Chris Wright Wednesday she has not received a “single response” to letters she sent him regarding firings at his agency. Kaptur said she and other lawmakers, over the past five months, on a “bipartisan” and […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has docketed the Department of Energy’s license amendment application for the Fort St. Vrain independent spent fuel storage installation in Colorado. The NRC published the notice of docketing the amendment  Monday in the Federal Register. In September 2024, the DOE submitted an amendment that would modify particular license conditions and technical […]

WASHINGTON – Advanced nuclear reactor development will be driven by private funding with the help of federal money, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said this week.  Wright spoke before the House Appropriations Energy and Water subcommittee on Wednesday about the Department of Energy’s budget request highlighted in the fiscal year 2026 “skinny” budget. The skinny […]

The Energy Communities Alliance has given its qualified support to a Department of Energy initiative to encourage development of data centers, used for artificial intelligence, on weapons complex installations. “ECA supports the AI infrastructure initiative and DOE’s commitment to engage with local public officials as a channel for DOE to create private sector deployment opportunities,” […]

WASHINGTON – Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), ranking member of the House Appropriations Energy and Water subcommittee, told Secretary of Energy Chris Wright Wednesday she has not received a “single response” to letters she sent him regarding firings at his agency. Kaptur said she and other lawmakers, over the past five months, on a “bipartisan” and […]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Iran must agree to no longer enrich uranium because “the only countries in the world that enrich uranium are the ones that have nuclear weapons,” according to a May 1 State Department interview. “What they’re basically asking is to be the only non-weapon country in the world that’s enriching […]

Earnings rose at BWX Technologies, Lynchburg, Va., in the first quarter, which the company partly attributed to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s intent to award it a sole source contract for an advanced uranium enrichment project. “We had another quarter of strong commercial backlog growth and see robust opportunities for growth in our government markets, […]

Amentum-led Washington River Protection Solutions, which recently completed its long run as tank farm contractor at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state, is looking for a subcontractor to help audit the books. Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), a joint venture of Amentum and Atkins, said in a federal procurement notice it is […]

The Department of Energy’s cleanup contractor at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee has deactivated the above-ground floors of a contaminated building at the Y-12 National Security Complex and is filling up the basement at the facility, DOE said last week. The DOE Office of Environmental Management contractor, United Cleanup Oak Ridge, is pouring more […]

The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site is putting liquid waste operations on hold due to a planned maintenance outage that started April 28. The annual break in operations is expected to last until July and should help increase liquid waste processing at the 310-square-mile site in South Carolina, a Savannah River Site (SRS) spokesperson […]

AtkinsRealis US Nuclear has added three industry veterans —Chris Kirchoff, Thomas Roddey, and Kirk Brower—to its business development management team, the company said recently. Kirchoff has been appointed vice president of business development and chief growth officer for the AtkinsRealis affiliate based in Oak Ridge, Tenn. He has more than 35 years of experience working […]

Earnings rose at Amentum, Chantilly, Va., in its second quarter, which the government contractor partly attributed Wednesday to demand for nuclear work and divestiture of a non-core asset.   Net earnings for the second quarter ended March 28 were $4 million, or $0.02 a share, up from a loss of $41 million or $0.46 a share, […]

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said despite proposed budget cuts, there should be no slowdown in remediation at Department of Energy nuclear cleanup sites. “Through doing things smarter, there won’t be any slowdown” in nuclear cleanup at Cold War and Manhattan Project sites, Wright told Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) during a Congressional hearing Wednesday. The […]

The Department of Energy is in no rush to transfer operation of the new Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant to the new liquid waste contractor from the builder of the multi-billion facility, the Hanford Site Advisory Board heard Wednesday. Bechtel National, which in December 2000 acquired the contract to build the plant to convert  liquid […]

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said despite proposed budget cuts, there should be no slowdown in remediation at Department of Energy nuclear cleanup sites. “Through doing things smarter, there won’t be any slowdown” in nuclear cleanup at Cold War and Manhattan Project sites, Wright told Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) during a Congressional hearing Wednesday. The […]

The Government Accountability Office, in a report sent last month to Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, highlighted six areas affecting the mission of DOE and its semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration. Nuclear weapons complex areas discussed were: improving contract, project and program management; as well as management of nuclear modernization challenges; addressing strategic human capital; […]

The Department of Energy has appointed Alicia Stetin as the new chief of staff for the Office of Environmental Management, an agency representative confirmed this week. The new chief of staff, Stetin, joined Environmental Management (EM) this month, according to her LinkedIn page. The chief of staff position was vacant as recently as a month […]

WASHINGTON – Advanced nuclear reactor development will be driven by private funding with the help of federal money, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said this week.  Wright spoke before the House Appropriations Energy and Water subcommittee on Wednesday about the Department of Energy’s budget request highlighted in the fiscal year 2026 “skinny” budget. The skinny […]

WASHINGTON – Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), ranking member of the House Appropriations Energy and Water subcommittee, told Secretary of Energy Chris Wright Wednesday she had not received a “single response” to letters she sent him regarding firings at his agency. Kaptur said she and other lawmakers, over the past five months, on a “bipartisan” and […]

Earnings rose at Amentum, Chantilly, Va., in its second quarter, which the government contractor partly attributed Wednesday to demand for nuclear work and divestiture of a non-core asset.   Net earnings for the second quarter ended March 28 were $4 million, or $0.02 a share, up from a loss of $41 million or $0.46 a share, […]

AtkinsRealis US Nuclear has added three industry veterans —Chris Kirchoff, Thomas Roddey, and Kirk Brower—to its business development management team, the company said recently. Kirchoff has been appointed vice president of business development and chief growth officer for the AtkinsRealis affiliate based in Oak Ridge, Tenn. He has more than 35 years of experience working […]

The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site is putting liquid waste operations on hold due to a planned maintenance outage that started April 28. The annual break in operations is expected to last until July and should help increase liquid waste processing at the 310-square-mile site in South Carolina, a Savannah River Site (SRS) spokesperson […]