Link Technologies Wins EM Support Contract
WC Monitor
10/24/2014
Link Technologies has won a five-year contract worth approximately $20 million to provide support to the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management. Notably, while Link Technologies is a small business, the contract was competed on an unrestricted basis. Services to be provided under the contract include nuclear safety basis oversight; waste management oversight; environmental safety and health oversight; quality assurance program oversight; and communications assistance, among others.
Transuranic Waste Backlog Growing at Oak Ridge
WC Monitor
10/24/2014
While the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is now not expected to begin resuming operations until at least early 2016, work continues at the Oak Ridge Transuranic Waste Processing Center and there is a mounting backlog of waste that will someday be sent to New Mexico. Because of the lack of storage space at the TWPC, some of the processed TRU wastes are being transported to Oak Ridge National Laboratory for housing until off-site shipments resume. According to DOE spokesman Mike Koentop, about 2,200 55-gallon drums of contact-handled TRU waste have already been characterized and nearly 500 of them have been certified for shipment to WIPP. The Central Characterization Project remains on site and is to evaluate each container that’s bound for the DOE underground repository in New Mexico. “CCP has been focused on characterizing and certifying CH waste,” Koentop said. Most of the Oak Ridge’s inventory of remote-handled transuranic wastes – including some super-hot sludges — has yet to be prepared for disposal.
