The House Appropriations subcommittee on energy and water development and related agencies scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, April 15 to review the Department of Energy’s budget request for fiscal 2027.
This hearing comes after the White House issued a budget request for fiscal 2027 that would give $32.8 billion to the DOE’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), and the DOE issued its budget justification document listing line items for each of NNSA’s subcategories. DOE’s Office of Environmental Management would receive $8.2 billion and Office of Nuclear Energy $1.5 billion, both less than the fiscal 2026 levels.
Schedules are subject to change, otherwise the hearing will be livestreamed at 2 p.m. Eastern time here.
The deadline for responses to the request for proposals (RFP) to take over management and operations for the Savannah River Site was extended from April 28 to May 13, according to a procurement notice.
The highly anticipated National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) RFP was released late February for a standalone performance-based contract, according to NNSA’s press release on the RFP. The base contract period would be five years, not including a four-month transition period.
Currently, the management and operation at Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C. is run by the Fluor-led joint venture, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS). Huntington Ingalls Industries subsidiary Newport News Nuclear is the junior partner in SRNS. The SRNS contract runs out on Sept. 30, 2026, but there is a 12-month option still remaining on the contract that, if exercised, would extend the contract to Sept. 30, 2027. All information on the RFP and competition will be on NNSA’s contract competition homepage, but FedConnect will be the primary site for disseminating information, NNSA said on its website.
The Department of Energy’s Carlsbad Field Office in New Mexico is looking to hire a deputy manager, a post with a payscale in the range of $199,000 to $228,000.
The posting, available through USA Jobs, was shared on LinkedIn Friday by DOE Carlsbad Manager Mark Bollinger.The desired candidate would be an executive who would “serve as the alter ego of the manger [Bollinger].,” according to the job posting. The Carlsbad office oversees the DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), which is the nation’s only underground disposal site for defense-related transuranic waste..
The job opening was posted April 1 and will remain open through April 15. The application link can be found here. Here is a link to the current Carlsbad management page.
Nearly half of the states have sprung to respond to the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus request for information by the April 1 deadline.
An industry source told Exchange Monitor on Thursday that 25 to 28 states submitted a response to DOE, with a handful of them taking an interest in managing nuclear waste as a part of their submissions.
Some of the states are open to providing full-service hubs, including possible waste disposal, while others are more selective. Some sites already have deep roots in the nuclear sector while others do not.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) CEO Don Moul is set to retire from the federally-owned utility July 1, according to a Monday Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing.
Moul became the president and CEO of TVA in April 2025 after then-CEO Jeff Lyash retired. His tenure will come to a close after nearly one year. Prior to his time as CEO, Moul joined TVA as the chief operating officer in 2021.
Moul’s retirement announcement comes weeks after President Donald Trump proposed a $500,000 salary cap for all TVA employees on March 11. Under that proposal, Moul would have seen a 90% pay cut as he made around $5 million as TVA CEO in 2025, according to an April 4 Knoxville News Sentinel article.
Former Assistant Secretary of the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy Kathryn Huff has been named chair of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, the university said Monday.
Huff will succeed Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering Paul Wilson as the department chair starting July 1, the university said in a press release.
Huff led DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy from 2022 to 2024 during the Joe Biden administration. The former DOE Office of Nuclear Energy official currently works as an associate professor of nuclear, plasma and radiological engineering at the University of Illinois. She will return to University of Wisconsin-Madison after earning her PhD in nuclear engineering at the university in 2013.
Workers at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C. could encounter more traffic in the coming days as perhaps 200,000 people roll into the area for the annual Masters Golf Tournament in neighboring Augusta, Ga.
Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters, is roughly 23 miles or a 35-minute car ride from the Savannah River National Laboratory at the DOE site, according to an Internet search.
The Masters, probably golf’s biggest tournament, is running from now through Sunday.