Cleanup & Remediation

With Potential Layoffs Looming, Portsmouth ‘On Pins And Needles’ As It Awaits FY’15 Funding

By Photo of Mike Nartker

Facing Tight Funding, Site Looks at Balancing Progress Toward D&D
Kenneth Fletcher
WC Monitor
11/21/2014
Fluor-B&W Portsmouth, LLC, responsible for the Portsmouth D&D project, is awaiting the next step from Congress to see if it can avoid hundreds…

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Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

EM Undecided on Whether to Publicly Release LANL Transition Plan

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

Wrap Up

Two large concrete cooling towers standing at a nuclear plant site ahead of planned demolition.

At Oak Ridge

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

Publication Notice

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

DOE Working Through Concerns on New Idaho Cleanup Contract

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

DOE Hanford Exec. Charboneau Top Candidate to Serve as Next Richland Manager

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

DOE Savannah River Manager David Moody to Retire in June

A worker in safety gear inspecting large concrete storage modules built to hold spent nuclear fuel containers.

Three Years After DOE Investigation into WTP Design Safety Issues Began, No Sign of Resolution

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

Hanford Cleanup Contractor CHPRC Earns Approx. $5 Million in Fee For FY 2013 Work

Two uniformed military officers reviewing documents in a command center in front of monitor screens.

Thornberry Named to Top Spot on House Armed Services Committee

A tunnel boring machine operating inside an underground rock-salt mine tunnel.

DOE Launches Enforcement Investigation into Los Alamos TRU Waste Program

A tunnel boring machine operating inside an underground rock-salt mine tunnel.

Sens. Heinrich and Udall Push for $113 Million Extra in WIPP Recovery Funds

A tunnel boring machine operating inside an underground rock-salt mine tunnel.

TRU Waste Containers Sent from Idaho to WCS to Meet Commitment to State

A worker in safety gear inspecting large concrete storage modules built to hold spent nuclear fuel containers.

At River Protection

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

U.K. Cleanup Focus

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

At Richland

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