The Office of Environmental Management awarded the Paducah Infrastructure Support Services contract to North Wind Dynamics in Idaho Falls, Idaho, a DOE press release from April 17 said.
North Wind Dynamics will perform services such as maintenance, custodial services, property management, environmental safety and engineering for the Paducah site.
The contract value is around $152.6 million, and is performance based with a maximum period of five years, including a three-year base period and a two-year option period. The contract will replace the contract held by Swift & Staley, which expires May 31 but has options available to extend until Nov. 30.
The Office of Environmental Management hit a “milestone” of completing 32 shipments of 1.9 million pounds of legacy waste at the West Valley Demonstration Project, according to a DOE press release April 15.
The legacy waste was shipped to an offsite disposal location. Cleanup crews had processed and shipped containers from past nuclear fuel reprocessing operations about 35 miles south of Buffalo, N.Y. The containers included pumps and degraded waste containers.
“The West Valley Demonstration Project team was deliberate in the planning and execution of this work, resulting in the safe and compliant disposition of all legacy waste,” Jason Casper, president of CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley, the prime contractor at the site, said in the release.
Eric Epstein, who has served as the chairman of Three Mile Island Alert, has filed a petition opposing the proposed name change for Three Mile Island Unit-1 to “Christopher M. Crane Clean Energy Center”.
In the petition, filed on April 18, Epstein requested a hearing to challenge the name change as he claimed the notion to rename the Three Mile Island unit is “an act of cultural vandalism. You can’t rebrand a nuclear disaster or erase memory,” he stated.
In Jan.13, Constellation submitted an application to rename the unit after Christopher Crane, the former CEO of Constellation’s parent company, Exelon. The NRC accepted to review the amendment on Jan. 23, with the expectation of completing the review by May 23.
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced on Monday that the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) recently performed a sequence of first-of-a-kind criticality experiments that provide data that supports the transportation of high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU) TRISO fuel.
The experiment was performed at the National Criticality Experiments Research Center. Kairos Power collaborated with the LANL as it intends to use HALEU TRISO fuel for its fluoride-salted cooled high temperature reactors.
The project experiment, TRISO-form HALEU-fueled Experiment for Transport Applications (THETA), was performed as a bigger effort by the DOE and Nuclear Regulatory Commission to further investigate usage, storage and transportation of HALEU.
Lockheed Martin and Amentum on Wednesday said they have reached a deal for Amentum to sell its engineering and technology-focused Rapid Solutions business to Lockheed for $360 million in cash.
Rapid Solutions will become part of Lockheed Martin’s Space segment when the transaction closes, which is expected in the second half of 2025. Rapid Solutions accounted for about 1 percent of Amentum’s sales in 2024, which were $8.4 billion. The business has about 230 employees.
Rapid Solutions manufactures intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance systems, advanced communications, and tactical systems.Amentum said the divesture is part of its strategy to focus on advanced engineering and technology-focused solutions, and will help with debt reduction. The company expects the deal to provide $325 million in after-tax proceeds. A version of this article was first published in Exchange Monitor affiliate Defense Daily.
