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Department of Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy oversees the nation’s nuclear weapons complex, environmental cleanup program, and national laboratory system. Coverage here tracks DOE budget requests, contract awards, policy decisions, regulatory action, and leadership changes across the agency’s defense and civilian nuclear missions.

  • Fluor reports strong results for fourth quarter, full-year 2024

    Earnings rose at Fluor, Irving, Texas, in the fourth quarter as well as for the full year ended Dec. 31, 2024, which the company attributed Tuesday to projects ranging from data centers to Department of Energy nuclear cleanup. The numbers were also affected by the “equity method” of accounting for Fluor’s investment and “de-consolidation” from […]

  • Parsons touts big fourth quarter, full 2024 earnings

    Earnings rose at Parsons, Chantilly, Va., in the fourth quarter and the full year of 2024, the company reported early Wednesday. Net earnings for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 were $54 million or $ $0.49 a share, up from $49 million, or $0.39 a share, in the year-ago quarter. Quarterly revenue was $1.7 billion […]

  • Parsons touts big fourth quarter, full 2024 earnings

    Earnings rose at Parsons, Chantilly, Va., in the fourth quarter and the full year of 2024, the company reported early Wednesday. Net earnings for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 were $54 million or $ $0.49 a share, up from $49 million, or $ $0.39a share, in the year-ago quarter. Quarterly revenue was $1.7 billion […]

  • Parsons touts big fourth quarter, full 2024 earnings

    Earnings rose at Parsons, Chantilly, Va., in the fourth quarter and the full year of 2024, the company reported early Wednesday. Net earnings for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 were $54 million or $ $0.49 a share, up from $49 million, or $ $0.39a share, in the year-ago quarter. Quarterly revenue was $1.7 billion […]

  • Ranking appropriations Dems demand DOE briefing on layoffs

    Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) issued a joint statement demanding an immediate briefing on the firings in the Department of Energy by its secretary Chris Wright. “While there have been reports that the Department has halted firings of NNSA [National Nuclear Security Administration] employees, we remain deeply troubled that the Department […]

  • Sources: Senior execs leaving DOE weapons complex

    With the White House seeking to dramatically shrink the federal workforce, sources told Exchange Monitor recently that senior executives with decades of experience in the Department of Energy’s weapons complex are leaving the government. Those who may be departing, either through taking the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) deferred resignation or other means, such as […]

  • Ex-NRC commissioner Baran takes buyout option, leaves DOE

    Jeffrey Baran, a former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission who more recently worked at the Department of Energy, has taken a deferred resignation offer from the Office of Personnel Management and is leaving the federal government. Baran joined DOE last September as deputy assistant secretary for waste and materials management at the Office of […]

  • GAO dismisses Bechtel group protest, DOE reconsiders PPPO award

    The Government Accountability Office this week dismissed a bid protest by a Bechtel-led group over a potential $2.3-billion Department of Energy contract awarded to an Atkins Nuclear Secured-led team, —but that won’t be the final word, as DOE will re-evaluate the original award. A Government Accountability Office (GAO) document viewed by Exchange Monitor said GAO’s […]

  • ECA supports Garrish nomination for DOE Nuclear Energy

    The Energy Communities Alliance Wednesday urged the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to advance the nomination of longtime Department of Energy hand Theodore (Ted) Garrish to lead the agency’s Office of Nuclear Energy. “ECA has worked with Mr. Garrish for over 30 years,” said the Energy Communities Alliance (ECA), which represents local governments where […]

  • Fluor passes CEO reins to Breuer; Constable becomes exec chair

    Texas-based Fluor announced early Tuesday it is promoting chief operating officer Jim Breuer to chief executive officer while the current CEO and board chair David Constable will become executive chair effective May 1. Fluor, a publicly-traded company, which has a large footprint in nuclear power as well as government contracts with the Department of Energy […]

  • Oak Ridge DOE cleanup boss Mullis to retire

    John (Jay) Mullis, who heads the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management office at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, will retire at the end of March, Exchange Monitor confirmed Tuesday afternoon. Mullis is not taking a White House Office of Personnel Management deferred resignation, just a “regular federal retirement,” a DOE representative said Tuesday. The […]

  • After backlash, White House seeks to reverse most NNSA terminations

    WASHINGTON — The Donald Trump administration paused on firing hundreds of federal employees that worked on the nation’s nuclear weapons for the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration, media outlets reported. Late last Thursday Feb 13, over 300 of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) 1,800 employees were fired, including all probationary employees, […]

  • Ex-NRC commissioner Baran takes buyout option, leaves DOE

    Jeffrey Baran, a former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission who more recently worked at the Department of Energy, has taken a deferred resignation offer from the Office of Personnel Management and is leaving the federal government. Baran joined DOE last September as deputy assistant secretary for waste and materials management at the Office of […]

  • Ex-NRC commissioner Baran takes buyout option, leaves DOE

    Jeffrey Baran, a former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission who more recently worked at the Department of Energy, has taken a deferred resignation offer from the Office of Personnel Management and is leaving the federal government. Baran joined DOE last September as deputy assistant secretary for waste and materials management at the Office of […]

  • GAO dismisses Bechtel group protest, but stay tuned on PPPO award

    The Government Accountability Office (GAO) this week dismissed a bid protest by a Bechtel-led group over a potential $2.3-billion Department of Energy contract awarded to an Atkins Nuclear Secured-led team, — but that might not be the final word, sources said. Sources told Exchange Monitor GAO’s dismissal of the protest by Bechtel-led Mission Operations Alliance […]

  • Parsons touts big fourth quarter, full 2024 earnings

    Earnings rose at Parsons, Chantilly, Va., in the fourth quarter and the full year of 2024, the company reported early Wednesday. Net earnings for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 were $54 million or $ $0.49 a share, up from $49 million, or $ $0.39a share, in the year-ago quarter. Quarterly revenue was $1.7 billion […]

  • Fluor reports strong results for fourth quarter, full-year 2024

    Earnings rose at Fluor, Irving, Texas, in the fourth quarter as well as for the full year ended Dec. 31, 2024, which the company attributed Tuesday to projects ranging from data centers to Department of Energy nuclear cleanup. The numbers were also affected by the “equity method” of accounting for Fluor’s investment and “de-consolidation” from […]

  • Oak Ridge DOE cleanup boss Mullis to retire

    John (Jay) Mullis, who heads the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management office at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, will retire at the end of March, Exchange Monitor confirmed Tuesday afternoon. Mullis is not taking a White House Office of Personnel Management deferred resignation, just a “regular federal retirement,” a DOE representative said Tuesday. The […]

  • Ranking appropriations Dems demand DOE briefing on layoffs

    Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) issued a joint statement demanding an immediate briefing on the firings in the Department of Energy by its secretary Chris Wright. “While there have been reports that the Department has halted firings of NNSA [National Nuclear Security Administration] employees, we remain deeply troubled that the Department […]

  • Fluor passes CEO reins to Breuer; Constable becomes exec chair

    Texas-based Fluor announced early Tuesday it is promoting chief operating officer Jim Breuer to chief executive officer while the current CEO and board chair David Constable will become executive chair effective May 1. Fluor, a publicly-traded company, which has a large footprint in nuclear power as well as government contracts with the Department of Energy […]

  • After backlash, White House reverses most NNSA terminations

    The Donald Trump administration paused on firing hundreds of federal employees that worked on the nation’s nuclear weapons for the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration, media outlets reported. Late last Thursday, over 300 of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) 1,800 employees were fired, including all probationary employees, through Trump’s Department of […]

  • This Week

    Here are events related to nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking this week: February 18: Earnings call. Fluor Corp. will discuss quarterly and annual financial results with Wall Street analysts starting at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time.  18: Meeting: The Department of Energy’s Environmental Management citizens advisory board or the Portsmouth Site will meet […]

  • Hanford job cuts decried by Washington Dems

    White House efforts to reduce the federal workforce have hit the Department of Energy’s largest nuclear cleanup project, the Hanford Site, and it does not sit well with Democrats in Washington state. President Donald Trump is “indiscriminately firing workers at the Hanford nuclear cleanup site,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), said in a Friday Feb. 14 […]

  • Sources: Senior execs leaving DOE weapons complex

    With the White House seeking to dramatically shrink the federal workforce, sources told Exchange Monitor recently that senior executives with decades of experience in the Department of Energy’s weapons complex are leaving the government. Those who may be departing, either through taking the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) deferred resignation or other means, such as […]

  • Environmental Management posts updated org chart

    The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has posted an updated organization chart reflecting that Roger Jarrell is back with the nuclear cleanup office as a senior adviser. The organization chart is dated Feb. 12 and shows Jarrell, who served in a similar role during the early going in the first Donald Trump administration […]

  • Tennessee gov plans $50M to support TVA small modular reactor

    Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) proposed plans this week for his state to spend $50 million to support the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Clinch River small modular reactor project Lee’s proposal during Monday’s State of the State address comes about a month after a TVA-led coalition submitted an $800 million grant proposal to the Department […]

  • Wrap Up: Hanford workers get snow day; Perma-Fix hires COO; North Wind manager retires; more

    Many workers at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., were sent home early Thursday evening due to a snowstorm that hit parts of Washington and Oregon, the Tri-City Herald reported.  The chance of continued snow showers lingers through the weekend, according to the National Weather Service forecast.   Perma-Fix Environmental Services has […]

  • Mass terminations hit NNSA this week, probationary employees laid off

    As the Donald Trump administration moves ahead with its agenda to shrink the federal workforce, roughly one-sixth of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s staff was terminated Thursday. According to NPR, who broke the story Thursday, 300 of the agency’s 1,800 staff were fired.  The Department of Energy, of which the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) […]

  • Piketon Council withdraws annexation request at DOE Portsmouth

    The Piketon, Ohio Village Council has for now at least called off a plan, vehemently opposed by local union members, to annex 3,500 acres of land at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site.  The council abandoned the proposal after a Monday night meeting where perhaps 200 people showed up, according to coverage in the Scioto […]

  • Incoming Hanford tank waste contractor lines up workforce

    The BWX Technologies-led contractor soon to be in charge of the 56 million gallons of liquid tank waste at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site has already lined up most of its rank-and-file workforce. Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure (H2C) had already secured commitments from 92% of the workforce at Amentum-led Washington River Protection […]