The deadline for a Genesis Mission solicitation was moved back to May 1 from April 28, according to the DOE Office of Science grants website.
The solicitation from March invited interested parties from national laboratories, universities and the commercial industry to submit proposals for a $293-million requisition for application (RFA) for the Genesis Mission. Broken up into phases, Phase 1, now accepting proposals until May 1, will support a nine-month project period and will range from $500,000 to $700,000.
Phase II applications are still due May 19.
In recent years, work crews at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina have removed 640 tons of scrap metal and 617 tons of asbestos from the D Area, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) said last week.
Going back to the 1950s, facilities in the D Area made heavy water for nuclear reactors, EM said in an April 21 press release. Also, D Area was once home to coal-fired power generation for the site along the South Carolina-Georgia state line.
Since 2021, crews have been dismantling old structures and remediating the D Area for future development, the nuclear cleanup office said. To help ease the way for new development, contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions plans to install meteorological equipment at D Area to monitor weather patterns, the DOE office said in the release.
Jay Mullis, a longtime executive around the Department of Energy’s nuclear sites, has been appointed senior vice president for nuclear and waste management operations for United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR).
Mullins announced his new title over the weekend on LinkedIn. UCOR, a joint venture of partners Amentum and Honeywell, is the environmental prime for the Oak Ridge Site. For the past 13 months, Mullis has been UCOR’s chief nuclear officer.
Between 2016 and March 2025, Mullis held key senior leadership positions for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management. During those years, Mullis headed the Oak Ridge Site field office and, for a time, served as the acting head of regulatory and policy affairs (EM-4) for Environmental Management.