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Judge blocks $45B Hanford contract award; calls it ‘improper’
The Department of Energy’s $45-billion liquid waste contract awarded in April for the Hanford Site in Washington state “was improper and is set aside,” a federal judge said in a public one-page document Tuesday. “Performance of the contract is enjoined,” U.S.  Court of Federal Claims Judge Marian Blank Horn said of the Integrated Tanks Contract awarded by DOE to BWX Technologies-led Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure. The team also includes Amentum and Fluor. Parties have 60 days to contest the decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the judge wrote.  The lawsuit was brought in May by a losing bidder for the work, Hanford Tank…		 Upcoming Events
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On second try, Senate committee approves Baran for five more years at NRC
By the thinnest partisan margin, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday confirmed Jeffrey Baran for another term as a commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In a business meeting, the Democrat-controlled committee voted 10-9 on party lines…
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DOE budget bill keeping EM at $8.3B, halting Justice40, heads to full Appropriations Committee
A House Appropriations subcommittee led by a lawmaker with a local interest in the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee on Thursday voted to keep nuclear cleanup spending roughly $8.3 billion in fiscal 2024, sending the measure onto…
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NRC would escape spending cuts in FY24 under Republican spending bill
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission would receive its requested budget for fiscal year 2024, under a Republican-authored spending bill unveiled this week in the House. The civilian nuclear power and waste regulator would get about $979.2 million for the budget year…
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House’s draft DOE budget has small boost for nuclear weapons modernization
Civilian nuclear weapons programs would get a little more funding than requested in fiscal year 2024 if a bill sent to the House Appropriations Committee this week becomes law. The House Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee’s version of the…
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