08.18.2008 | By George Lobsenz
A nuclear waste-handling building associated with a plutonium conversion facility at the Energy Department's Savannah River Site does not have adequate safeguards against a "red oil" explosion and is not designed to contain chemical and radiological...
08.13.2008 | By Jeff Beattie
Substantially expanding its reach in the U.S. market for nuclear fuel processing and other specialized nuclear material operations, Babcock & Wilcox Co. announced Monday that it has struck a deal to acquire Nuclear Fuels Services and its fuel fabrication...
08.11.2008 | By George Lobsenz
In a first for the Energy Department's nuclear cleanup program, workers at the Savannah River Site last month began spraying acid into two underground storage tanks for high-level radioactive waste in an effort to wash away lumps of hardened waste stuck to...
08.08.2008 | By Jeff Beattie
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Justice Department won a substantial court victory last week in a long-running conflict-of-interest case against a major federal contractor, as a federal jury concluded that Science Applications International Corp...
07.24.2008
In what appears to be a first for the federal agency, President Bush has named Ambrose Schwallie, formerly a top contractor official in the Energy Department's nuclear weapons complex, to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Schwallie, a Westinghouse...
07.21.2008 | By Jeff Beattie
In what the state said was the largest natural resources damages settlement ever made by the federal government, the Energy Department will pay Ohio $13.75 million as compensation for contaminating groundwater under the former Fernald uranium processing site...
07.17.2008
French officials have scolded an Areva subsidiary for allowing uranium-laden water to spill into a sewer and a stream in southern France near the Tricastin Nuclear Power Center--and for not informing safety regulators more fully about the incident, which led...
07.16.2008 | By Jeff Beattie
The projected cost of planning, building and operating a planned national nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada has increased to about $90 billion, up sharply from the most recent previous estimate of $57.5 billion, the head of the project told...
07.14.2008 | By Jeff Beattie
Awarding its largest nuclear cleanup contract ever, the UK government said Friday it has selected a consortium led by URS' Washington Group Division, France's Areva and UK- based AMEC as the "preferred bidder" for a $44 billion, 17-year contract to...
07.10.2008
The United Kingdom reported to international authorities last month that its civilian plutonium inventories stood at 103.8 metric tons at the end of 2007, up about 900 kilograms from the previous year. Antinuclear groups said the huge and growing plutonium...
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