Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant

The contractor in charge of decommissioning and decontamination of the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio, earned $24.3 million of a potential fee of almost $33 million for the 16-month period ended Sept. 30, 2017. The Energy Department’s recent release of the performance scorecard for Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth comes a couple weeks after the agency […]

The contractor in charge of decommissioning and decontamination of the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio earned $24.3 million out of a potential fee of almost $33 million for the 16-month period ended Sept. 30, 2017. The Energy Department’s recent release of the scorecard showing Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth earned 74 percent of its potential fee, […]

Fluor on Wednesday said its revenue for the quarter ended Sept. 30 will be about $4.6 billion, down a bit from the $4.9 billion during the same quarter in 2017. The figures Fluor announced Thursday were preliminary and the regular, full earnings report will be released Nov. 1. Fluor said to expect its third-quarter 2018 […]

Fluor on Wednesday said its revenue for the quarter ended Sept. 30 will be about $4.6 billion, down a bit from the $4.9 billion during the same quarter in 2017. The figures Fluor announced Thursday were preliminary and the regular, full earnings report will be released Nov. 1. Fluor said to expect its third-quarter 2018 […]

The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management expects to award a trio of big contracts, two of them re-awards following protests by losing bidders, by the end of the year. The department hopes this month to reissue both the liquid waste management contract at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and a consolidated technical […]

The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management expects to award a trio of big contracts, two of them re-awards following protests by losing bidders, by the end of the year. The department hopes this month to reissue both the liquid waste management contract at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and a consolidated technical […]

Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth has picked up its second and last option period as cleanup contractor at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio. The Energy Department announced the contract extension, valued at about $850 million, on Thursday afternoon, three days before the current 30-month extension was set to expire. The company began work on its […]

When President Donald Trump signed a multiagency appropriations package Sept. 21, it assured the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management about $7.2 billion in funding for the 2019 fiscal year starting Oct. 1. The DOE-funding “minibus,” approved by Congress earlier this month, provides the largest budget for the department’s nuclear cleanup office since it received […]

There was no word Tuesday from either the Energy Department or Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth on any sort of extension for the contractor’s current deal for cleanup of the Portsmouth Site in Ohio. The first of two potential 30-month option periods for the contract is set to expire Sept. 30. The company started work on its potential […]

When President Trump signed a multiagency appropriations package Friday afternoon, it assured the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management about $7.2 billion in funding for the 2019 fiscal year starting Oct. 1. The DOE-funding “minibus,” approved by Congress earlier this month, provides the largest budget for the department’s nuclear cleanup office since it received almost […]

President Donald Trump’s signature is the only thing standing between the Energy Department’s nuclear cleanup office and nearly $7.2 billion in funding for fiscal 2019. That would be the highest spending level for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management since fiscal 2005, when it received nearly $7.3 billion. The House of Representatives on Thursday voted 377-20 […]

The appropriations package agreed upon by a House-Senate conference committee this week makes it official: The Energy Department will not barter excess government uranium in fiscal 2019 to fund environmental remediation at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio. The multi-agency appropriations bill would provide $841 million for DOE’s Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund, which pays […]

Lynchburg, Va.-based BWX Technologies said Wednesday it has promoted Heatherly H. Dukes to the position of president of the company’s Technical Services Group. Dukes has most recently served as the group’s chief operating officer, overseeing BWXT operations at more than a dozen Energy Department and NASA facilities with an annual contract value of about $7 […]

The Energy Department last week issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a small business set-aside contract, potentially worth almost $25 million over five years, to tackle low-risk, low-complexity characterization and remediation for the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management in Tennessee. The Y-12 National Security Complex, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the […]

Leaders in the village of Piketon, Ohio, have asked federal and state agencies to hold a public hearing on the waste that will go into the planned On-Site Disposal Cell at the Energy Department’s nearby Portsmouth Site. The Piketon Village Council on Aug. 20 approved  a resolution asking DOE and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for […]

The Government Accountability Office dismissed a bid protest over a $137 million consolidated technical support contract at the Energy Department’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office because the award is being reconsidered. That is according to the Aug. 17 decision document issued by the GAO after Albuquerque, N.M.-based Strategic Management Solutions protested the June contract award to a […]

The Government Accountability Office dismissed a bid protest over a $137 million consolidated technical support contract at the Energy Department’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office because the award is being reconsidered. That is according to the Aug. 17 decision document issued by the GAO after Albuquerque, N.M.-based Strategic Management Solutions protested the June contract award to a […]

The Energy Department is expected to review its June award of a contract worth up to $137 million over five years for consolidated technical support services at the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) to a subsidiary of Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve). The Government Accountability Office on Friday dismissed a bid protest of the contract award, brought […]

Maryland-based nuclear fuel provider Centrus Energy is working toward termination of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission license for its American Centrifuge Lead Cascade demonstration project at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio. Most decontamination and decommissioning at the site was finished by June 30, Centrus said in a 10-Q quarterly report filed Thursday with […]

Tennessee-based RSI EnTech said Monday it would not follow a competitor’s lead in protesting the Energy Department’s recent $137 million consolidated contract award for technical support services at the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office complex. “Yes, we received a debrief [on the contract award]; no, we did not/are not filing a protest,” RSI EnTech President Paul Clay […]

Fluor Chairman and CEO David Seaton said Thursday the company remains in pursuit of a multibillion-dollar liquid waste management contract at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina that the Department of Energy is due to award again in a few weeks. Seaton offered his take, without elaboration, during Fluor’s quarterly earnings call with Wall Street […]

Tennessee-based RSI EnTech said Monday it would not follow a competitor’s lead in protesting the Energy Department’s recent $137 million consolidated contract award for technical support services for the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office complex. “Yes, we received a debrief [on the contract award]; no, we did not/are not filing a protest,” RSI EnTech President Paul Clay […]

Department of Energy contractor Fluor will discuss its quarterly performance during a conference call with financial analysts at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time Thursday. Financial results for the second quarter, which ended June 30, will be reported at market close before the call. The Irving, Texas-based construction and engineering company is coming off a rough first […]

A New Mexico company on July 20 filed a formal protest against the Department of Energy’s recent award of a contract worth up to $137 million over five years for technical support services at the office that oversees cleanup of the Paducah Site in Kentucky and Portsmouth Site in Ohio. In its docket notice for […]

A New Mexico company on Friday filed a formal protest against the Department of Energy’s recent award of a contract worth up to $137 million over five years for technical support services at the office that oversees cleanup of the Paducah Site in Kentucky and Portsmouth Site in Ohio. In its docket notice for the […]

The Energy Department and contractor Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth expect soil excavation and installation of necessary infrastructure for a planned on-site radioactive waste disposal cell at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio should be completed in fiscal 2019. Recent progress includes setting up trailers for work crews, installing security fencing along the perimeter of the site, including sedimentation […]

After years of preparation, the Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative (SODI) will formally become the owner of an 80-acre tract of land being conveyed to it by the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site on Friday. “We are thrilled to get this property … and eventually bring jobs to Southern Ohio,” SODI Executive Director Steve Shepherd said by […]

The Energy Department and contractor Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth expect soil excavation and installation of necessary infrastructure for a planned on-site radioactive waste disposal cell at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio should be completed in fiscal 2019. Recent progress includes setting up trailers for work crews, installing security fencing along the perimeter of the site, including sedimentation […]

The current 30-month option period for Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth’s $3.4 billion decontamination and decommissioning contract for the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio, is scheduled to expire Sept. 30. While a DOE spokesperson confirmed Tuesday the contract has not been extended beyond Sept. 30, other details were sparse. The Energy Department has not said if […]

Although RSI EnTech did not win a recently announced successor contract for technical support services at the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio, company President Paul Clay thinks the 97 percent rating on a new performance scorecard demonstrates the firm’s caliber of work. RSI EnTech’s current $51 million, five-year contract at Portsmouth expires at the […]