Cleanup & Remediation

Without Spending Caps Deal, Uncertainty Lingers on DOE Budget Details

By Photo of Dan Leone

Watchers of the Department of Energy’s defense nuclear waste and weapons budgets will endure two more weeks of added uncertainty about those programs after Congress blew town for an extended spring break without making progress on a deal to avert automatic spending…

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NNSA Starts Review of Dilute-and-Dispose Plan for WIPP

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

EPA Recertification Sought for WIPP Through 2024

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

Idaho Reviewing Fluor Plan to Resume Sludge Repackaging at Drum Burst Site

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

DOE Cleanup Office Has New Chief of Staff

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

Triad Seeks Bids for Pit Waste Treatment

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

Oak Ridge Contractor to Tighten Audits After Subcontractor Fraud, DOE IG Says

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

Reopened Los Alamos Facility Makes First TRU Shipment to WIPP since 2014

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

West Valley Main Process Building Demo Stays in Current Contract

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

Bechtel Vice President Calls it a Career

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

Hanford Contractor Seeks Dismissal of Firefighter Overtime Suit

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

Energy Department IG Looking at Los Alamos Communities Group

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

EnergySolutions Completes On-Site Cleanup of Ark. Reactor

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

Honeywell 1Q Revenue Drops 15% on Spinoffs

The U.S. Capitol dome framed by trees with an overlay of paper currency, symbolizing federal budget appropriations.

Senate Bill Would Strengthen Independence of Federal Advisory Committees

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

Wrap Up: North Wind Group Names Information Chief

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