The acting head of the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup office is still awaiting a report from federal field managers at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina on turning over landlord responsibilities to the National Nuclear Security Administration by 2025.
After his presentation Thursday to the Energy Facilities Contractors Group in Washington, William (Ike) White said he is still waiting on the report from Environmental Management and nuclear weapons enterprise field managers at Savannah River was targeted for this month.
The transition report “has not made it to me personally” yet, White said. “But that doesn’t mean there is not a draft out there floating, getting ready to come to me.”
Although the Department of Energy was among scores of organizations hit in an international cyberattack last week, it experienced minimal impact, the agency’s chief information officer said Thursday in Washington, D.C.
“I wasn’t planning to talk about it,” but “needless to say we did have some challenges last week,” Ann Dunkin told the Energy Facility Contractors Group of the Moveit data breach. “I am not at liberty to say much about [it] in this space.” The exposure associated with the breach is “extremely small,” Dunkin said.
Dunkin also lauded the DOE Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) embrace of DOE’s intranet system. “From idea to rollout it took 10 months and is available [to] all 16 affiliate EM organizations.” The National Nuclear Security Administration “is now coming onboard” with DOE’s intranet system, Dunkin said.
Georgia-based NAC International, a provider of nuclear fuel services and products, said Monday it has bought Niagara Energy Products, which will become a Canadian subsidiary of NAC.
Niagara Energy Products, based in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, supplies nuclear containers and pressure boundary components for the nuclear energy, defense, natural resource extraction industries and Industrial markets in North America and elsewhere, NAC said in a Monday press release.
Among Niagara’s clients include Canadian electric utilities that use CANDU reactors to produce power, according to the release. “The Canadian nuclear market is extremely important to NAC,” said NAC President and CEO Kent Cole. “This acquisition positions us to serve this growing market through a world-class nuclear manufacturing center.” Since 1968, NAC has provided technology and services to the nuclear industry internationally, according to the release. NAC is a subsidiary of Hitachi Zosen Corporation, an international provider of environmental systems and industrial plants.
