Most workers at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state were told to stay home Friday due to sleet and snow creating challenging driving conditions — one day after most onsite staffers were sent home early.
Elsewhere in the DOE weapons complex, it appears the weather is moderating at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee where the Y-12 National Security Complex was returning to normal operations Friday with workers to report at 8 a.m. Eastern Time, according to a social media post. In Washington, D.C., feds including DOE staffers were told offices were opening two hours late with increased telework available.
The areas around the Paducah Site in Kentucky, the Portsmouth Site in Ohio and the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York state were all expecting snowfall Friday and into the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
The Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Advisory Board has been reauthorized for two years through Jan. 12, 2026, according to a Federal Register notice published this week.
The Board provides DOE’s assistant secretary for Environmental Management with information and advice on issues facing the $8-billion nuclear cleanup office.
A link to the board’s reports and recommendations can be found here.
Michael Lempke is now leading Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Australia business, where he will shepherd the shipbuilder and nuclear-site manager’s portion of the tripartite AUKUS agreement between the U.S., U.K. and Australia.
Lempke, most recently president of the company’s Nuclear and Environmental Services group, took the post on Jan.1, Huntington Ingalls (HII) said in a statement on Wednesday.
Formerly a longtime Department of Energy and naval reactors hand, Lempke also serves as president of HII’s Mission Technologies’ Nuclear and Environmental Services business group, which handles DOE business.
Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B), the Department of Energy’s legacy cleanup contractor at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, said this week it has beaten its small business subcontracting goal for the second year in a row.
N3B awarded more than 80% of its $290 million in planned purchases in fiscal 2023, which ended Sept. 30, to small businesses, beating its goal of 65%, the contractor said in a press release.
Robert Wagner will become associate director for the Energy Science and Technology Directorate at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee effective Feb. 1, the lab announced Jan. 16.
Wagner has logged more than 20 years at the national lab and in his new position will lead the organization’s work on electric energy generation, distribution, storage and end use, according to a lab press release.
Since 2020 Wagner has led the directorate’s Buildings and Transportation Science Division. He is responsible for the National Transportation Research Center as well as the Building Technologies Research and Integration Center at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Texas-based Department of Energy contractor Fluor announced today that Lisa Glatch, a former executive at Sempra Energy, was elected to its board of directors effective Jan. 15, bringing the total number of board members to 10.
Glatch has 35 years of experience in infrastructure, energy and liquified natural gas industries, Fluor said in a press release.
