Weapons Complex Monitor Vol. 33 No. 26
Visit Archives | Return to Issue
PDF
Weapons Complex Monitor
Article 8 of 8
July 01, 2022

Wrap Up: Oak Ridge tech RFP expected in fall; New Mexico lands grants; lab news

By ExchangeMonitor

A contract solicitation for Technical Support Services at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee could hit the street in September, the Cincinnati-based Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center announced this week.

The request for proposals (RFP) will be out no sooner than September, the contracting office said in a Thursday June 29 quarterly update

Professional Project Services or Pro2Serve currently holds the five-year, $49-million contract at the Oak Ridge Site, which was actually scheduled to expire June 22, according to DOE contracts chart updated June 30.

The agency already has an RFP out for technical assistance contracts at a number of nuclear weapons cleanup sites.

 

New Mexico agencies are receiving more than $12 million in grant money from the Department of Energy to help ensure safe transport of defense-related transuranic waste to the federal underground disposal site near Carlsbad and more broadly to help fund state oversight of nuclear waste.

The federal agency announced the award in a Thursday press release. The New Mexico Energy, Minerals & Natural Resources Department is getting $6.2 million over five years for planning and preparations “for the safe and uneventful transportation of radioactive waste in and through the state of New Mexico” to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

Likewise, the New Mexico Environment Department will receive $6 million over five years to continue providing oversight of DOE’s waste management activities within the state. Both actions renew existing awards and run from July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2027. 

 

 The Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina and one of its university partners announced this week that Margaret Kosal will be the first senior fellow in the lab’s new Nonproliferation Applied Science Center.

The move was announced in a Monday press release by the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL)  and the Georgia Institute of Technology or Georgia Tech. In the position, Kosal will concentrate on reducing the threat of weapons of mass destruction and understanding the role of emerging technologies for security.

Kosal is currently an associate professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech, according to the press release. The laboratory is operated by Battelle Savannah River Alliance under a five-year, $3.8-billion contract slated to run through mid-February 2026.

 

Triad National Security is working to cut the number of erroneous fire alarms at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, according to a recent safety panel update.

Over a recently-concluded three-year period, “the laboratory experienced approximately 100 false alarms per year that required a fire department response,” according to a report dated June 10 from the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB). About a quarter of these alarms were caused by maintenance or construction work near detection devices, DNFSB said.

Comments are closed.

Partner Content
Social Feed

NEW: Via public records request, I’ve been able to confirm reporting today that a warrant has been issued for DOE deputy asst. secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition Sam Brinton for another luggage theft, this time at Las Vegas’s Harry Reid airport. (cc: @EMPublications)

DOE spent fuel lead Brinton accused of second luggage theft.



by @BenjaminSWeiss, confirming today's reports with warrant from Las Vegas Metro PD.

Waste has been Emplaced! 🚮

We have finally begun emplacing defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in Panel 8 of #WIPP.

Read more about the waste emplacement here: https://wipp.energy.gov/wipp_news_20221123-2.asp

Load More