The Kansas City District Environmental Programs Branch of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will host its annual spring industry call at 10 a.m. Central Time on April 27, according to a notice on a federal procurement website.
The call will update the status of current and upcoming solicitations and discuss overall workload, according to the notice.
The branch is involved with hazardous and radioactive waste remediation including the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program as well as the Corp’s Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). Anyone not on the current contact list who wants to participate should contact either Jill Fraley at [email protected] or Jason Leibbert at [email protected].
The Department of Energy said Tuesday it is renewing its financial assistance, worth about $3.9-million, to the Washington, D.C.-based Energy Communities Alliance through April 11, 2028.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management announced the reupping of the non-competitive financial assistance cooperative agreement with the community advocacy organization in a Tuesday press release.
As recipient of the grant, the Energy Communities Alliance (ECA) “will continue to engage local governments on issues related to DOE facilities,” according to the news release.
On its website, ECA identifies itself as “the only non-profit, membership organization” for local municipalities near DOE facilities.
The United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced April 3 that Dounreay Nuclear has merged with Magnox Limited.
“As part of the new arrangements, the Nuclear Site Licence for Dounreay is now held by the Magnox Limited Board,” according to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) press release. There will be no fundamental to the current work programs, according to the release.
Magnox is responsible for cleanup of 12 nuclear sites. NDA oversees Magnox and Dounreay as well as the Sellafield nuclear complex, Nuclear Transport Solutions and Nuclear Waste Services.
Great British Nuclear, the entity set up by the United Kingdom to direct nuclear redevelopment, has announced that Gwen Parry-Jones OBE will become its first chief executive office, on an interim basis starting May 1, according to a press release. She has been CEO of Magnox Limited since September 2019.
Parry-Jones OBE has held many management jobs at British Energy and EDF Energy, in the United Kingdom and Canada. In 2008 she became the station director of Heysham 1 power station and the first woman in the UK to have run a nuclear power station.
The NDA has announced that Rob Fletcher has been appointed as interim CEO of Magnox. Fletcher is a former managing director of the Atomic Weapons Establishment and president of Rolls-Royce’s civil nuclear business, according to the release.
The City of Oak Ridge, Tenn., hometown for the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site, announced last week that its operations were knocked offline by a malware attack.
Services such as online payments “will gradually return in the coming weeks,” the city said in a statement posted on a temporary website. “The City of Oak Ridge computer systems were attacked last week, by a sophisticated group of criminals.”
This is probably not the type of going-away present preferred by 68-year-old City Manager Mark Watson who recently announced he is retiring May 5.
