Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant

After 11 years with Westinghouse, José Emeterio Gutiérrez will resign as president and CEO effective July 31 and will be succeeded Aug. 19 by Patrick Fragman, group senior vice president at ABB Limited, an international technology company involved with electrification, industrial automation, and other fields. An executive committee of senior managers will run Westinghouse daily […]

The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday ruled out bartering of excess government uranium to help fund remediation of the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio in fiscal 2020. To make up for funds the government would have reaped through uranium barter,  the energy and water development bill for the next budget year would provide Portsmouth […]

Officials in southern Ohio met Thursday to narrow the list of potential third-party contractors to sample for potential radioactive contamination at a middle school near the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site. The Pike County General Health District said Tuesday it is working with DOE, along with local and state agencies, to establish a procedure outlining “when […]

Anne Marie White is stepping down as head of the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, multiple industry sources said Thursday afternoon. They linked her departure to friction with her immediate superior, Undersecretary of Energy for Science Paul Dabbar, exacerbated by concerns about radioactive contamination near a DOE facility in Ohio. White became assistant […]

Officials in southern Ohio are scheduled to meet today to narrow the list of potential third-party contractors to sample for potential radioactive contamination at a middle school near the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site. The Pike County General Health District said Tuesday it is working with DOE, along with local and state agencies, to establish a […]

The House Appropriations energy and water subcommittee said Monday the practice of bartering excess government uranium to help fund remediation of the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio will not be allowed in fiscal 2020. Instead, the subcommittee’s appropriations bill for the next budget year would provide Portsmouth with $60 million above the Donald Trump […]

The Pike County, Ohio, General Health District hopes this week to select a third-party laboratory to conduct air and water sampling near the Energy Department facility suspected of being the source of radioactive contaminants found recently at a local middle school. “We are working as fast as possible along with performing our due diligence to […]

Westinghouse Electric announced Thursday it will change CEOs this summer. After 11 years with Westinghouse, José Emeterio Gutiérrez will resign as president and CEO effective July 31 and will be succeeded Aug. 19 by Patrick Fragman, group senior vice president at ABB Limited, an international technology company involved with electrification, industrial automation, and other fields. […]

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine wants the Department to Energy to ensure additional sampling for potential contaminants is done in time for Pike County officials to decide whether to reopen a middle school near the Portsmouth Site after summer vacation. The governor wants to resolve the question of any potential health threats at Zahn’s Corner Middle […]

As expected, major Energy Department contractor Fluor has formally selected longtime executive Carlos Hernandez as its permanent CEO, about two weeks after he took the job on an interim basis. Fluor’s Board of Directors also announced Thursday in a press release that Hernandez, previously the company executive vice president and chief legal officer, would serve […]

Local authorities near the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in southern Ohio say research by Northern Arizona University supports their concerns about radioactive contamination at a nearby middle school. There is “a reasonable degree of scientific certainty” that the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant complex is the source of enriched uranium and neptunium-237 found around Zahn’s Corner […]

Local officials around Pike County, Ohio, met Monday with the head of the U.S. Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management to discuss apparent radiological contamination at a middle school adjacent to the Portsmouth Site. During the meeting, DOE Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management Anne Marie White said the agency won’t suspend construction of the on-site […]

A middle school near the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in Pike County, Ohio, will be closed until summer break due to concerns over levels of radioactive contaminants on the property. A local schools official said enriched uranium was identifeid inside Zahn’s Corner Middle School and neptutnium-237 was detected by a DOE air monitor adjacent to […]

Department of Energy contractor Fluor moved up its quarterly earnings call by several hours Thursday to announce that David Seaton had stepped down as CEO and board member effective May 1. Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer Carlos Hernandez is stepping in as “interim” CEO, although there is no leadership search planned, Alan Boeckmann, […]

Lynchburg, Va.,-based BWX Technologies on Wednesday reported a drop in both revenue and profit during the first quarter of 2019. The Department of Energy contractor recorded revenue of $416 million, down 9% from $457 million in the first three months of 2018, according to a press release. Meanwhile, net income dropped from $66.4 million, or […]

Texas-based Fluor moved up its quarterly earnings call by several hours Thursday to announce that David Seaton has stepped down as CEO and board member effective May 1. Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer Carlos Hernandez is stepping in as “interim” CEO, although there is no leadership search planned, Alan Boeckmann, now executive chairman […]

Lynchburg, Va., -based BWX Technologies on Wednesday reported a drop in both revenue and profit during the first quarter of 2019. The company recorded revenue of $416 million, down 9% from $457 million in the first three months of 2018, according to a press release. Meanwhile, net income dropped from $66.4 million, or $0.66 per […]

The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management is picking up North Wind-led Portsmouth Mission Alliance’s (PMA) 22-month contract option for infrastructure support services at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio. The department on Tuesday announced the extension, valued at an estimated $67 million, one day before the three-year base contract with the North Wind-Swift & Staley […]

The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management is picking up North Wind-led Portsmouth Mission Alliance’s (PMA) 22-month contract option for infrastructure support services at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio. The department on Tuesday announced the extension, valued at an estimated $67 million, one day before the three-year base contract with the North Wind-Swift & Staley […]

Idaho-based Energy Department contractor North Wind Group has appointed Jim Furr as its chief information officer. Furr will remain president of subsidiary North Wind Services, the company said in a March press release. The company said it is revamping information technology to support growth, data management, and cyber security. Furr has been with North Wind […]

The Energy Department has until April 24 to decide whether to exercise a 22-month option to keep North Wind-led Portsmouth Mission Alliance (PMA) on the job as the infrastructure support contractor for the Portsmouth Site in Ohio. The $140 million contract for the North Wind-Swift & Staley joint venture began in March 2016 and runs […]

The Energy Department has until April 24 to decide whether to exercise a 22-month option to keep North Wind-led Portsmouth Mission Alliance (PMA) on the job as the infrastructure support contractor for the Portsmouth Site in Ohio. The $140 million contract for the North Wind-Swift & Staley joint venture began in March 2016 and runs […]

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) this week grilled Energy Secretary Rick Perry about the Department of Energy’s plans to award Centrus Corp. a sole-source contract for domestic uranium enrichment. On Jan. 7, DOE issued a notice of intent to award Centrus a contract potentially worth $115 million over three years to deploy a cascade of 16 […]

The Department of Energy’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) has extended the contracts for three technical support services providers, potentially through the end of the year, an agency spokesperson confirmed Monday. In a notice released in January, DOE’s Office of Environmental Management indicated it could push back the expiration of the contracts held by the three […]

The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management (EM) expects to speed cleanup of its nuclear sites by decades and save “$100s of millions” in life-cycle costs, according to the Donald Trump administration’s fiscal 2020 budget request. The request, issued in March, would trim the DOE nuclear remediation appropriation from $7.2 billion in fiscal 2019 to […]

Centrus Energy should wrap up $15 million worth of decontamination and decommissioning at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee by Sept. 30, according to a financial filing Monday. Last September, DOE issued the contract to the Maryland-based company to prepare the K-1600 building for demolition. Centrus leased the K-1600 building to further test […]

After its first effort fell short of its goal, Department of Energy cleanup contractor Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth is reviving its voluntary separation program in hopes of finding 29 more workers ready to take early departure. The decontamination and decommissioning contractor for the Portsmouth Site in Ohio in December first issued its offer in hopes of persuading […]

Energy Secretary Rick Perry suggested Tuesday he is ready to again suspend his agency’s past practice of bartering excess government uranium to help pay for environmental remediation at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio. “I agree with you,” Perry told Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), a vocal opponent of the practice, during a Senate Energy and Natural […]

Centrus Energy should wrap up $15 million worth of decontamination and decommissioning at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee by Sept. 30, according to a financial filing Monday. Last September, DOE issued the contract to the Maryland-based company to prepare the K-1600 building for demolition. Centrus leased space in K-1600 to further test […]

The Department of Energy’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) has extended the contracts for three technical support services providers, potentially through the end of the year, an agency spokesperson confirmed Monday. In a notice released in January, DOE’s Office of Environmental Management indicated it could push back the expiration of the contracts held by the three […]