The Department of Energy is taking applications until Feb. 12 for a new nuclear cleanup field office manager to replace Michael Mikolanis at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, according to a recent online notice.
Mikolanis is leaving by March to become the top DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) executive at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, DOE’s Office of Environmental Management said in December.
The Los Alamos Environmental Management field office post has a salary range between $184,000 and $222,000, according to the job posting on USAJobs.gov.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is looking for a contractor to do cleanup at the former DuPont Chambers Works site in Deepwater, N.J., according to a pre-solicitation notice published Tuesday.
The Corps plans a single award task order contract for cleanup of the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) site at Deepwater, according to the sources sought notice in the System for Award Management. The actual solicitation should be available around Feb. 7, according to the notice.
The Corps wants a contractor to remediate radiological contamination, including uranium, thorium, and radium, left over from the early years of the nation’s atomic energy program, according to the notice. The 1,450-acre property along the eastern shore of the Delaware River is now owned and operated by Chemours, according to a background packet from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The Department of Energy this week announced the appointment of eight new members to its Environmental Management Advisory Board, which provides independent advice and recommendations to DOE’s nuclear cleanup branch.
According to a Jan. 23 press release the new members are: Mark Barnett, environmental engineering professor at Auburn University in Alabama; Bruce Bordenick, senior engineer at SC&A and a retired Navy veteran; Ralph DiSibio, former Washington Group International president; Rich Janati, administrator of the Appalachian States Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission; Andy Kelsey, former Bechtel vice president; Alastair MacDonald, vice president of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited; Shari Meghreblian, senior manager in Ernst & Young’s government and public service sector and Brian Powell, nuclear environmental engineering professor at Clemson University in South Carolina.
There are 21 members on the advisory panel. They serve two-year terms that can be renewed by DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, according to the release.
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee is working with a company called Zeno Power to utilize decaying nuclear components in radioisotope power systems capable of generating non-polluting energy for agencies such as NASA and the Department of Defense.
Zeno Power and DOE contractor United Cleanup Oak Ridge recently shipped a radioisotope thermoelectric generator containing strontium-90 away from the nuclear cleanup site to recycle the material into a sort of nuclear battery for space exploration and military applications, according to a press release.
Zeno announced last year it has lined up $40 million in government contracts, according to the press release, issued in connection with a Thursday ceremony at Oak Ridge. The radioisotope thermoelectric generator was built at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and was stored there for 40 years. “This is a win-win scenario that’s removing a significant source of radioactivity at a savings to taxpayers, while also supporting nuclear innovation,” said Jay Mullis, DOE’s top cleanup official at Oak Ridge.