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Fermilab's Integrated Engineering Research Center Is ‘Future Flexible’

Fermilab in Batavia, Ill., will be flexible enough for future experiment needs

Jeff Yoders

January 18, 2021

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First new building in 50 years at Fermilab in Batavia, Ill., is built for the future

DOE Readies Big Contracts But Nuke Waste Cleanup Costs Keep Rising

Mary B. Powers

April 24, 2019

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Three multi-billion-dollar federal Hanford site awards will be made in June

Energy Interests at Odds Over DOE Proposal

Pam Radtke Russell

October 12, 2017

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Investments in transmission and distribution infrastructure would be a better way to make the electric grid more resilient and reliable, representatives of a variety of energy interests told the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s energy subcommittee at recent hearings.

Demolition at Hanford’s Plutonium Plant Includes Cranes

Tim Newcomb

September 25, 2017

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Lifting away contaminated portions of the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant requires cranes to remove the largest pieces of equipment, dubbed glove boxes.

Project Delivery

Turnaround Eludes Nuclear Power Plant Vogtle

Contractors Westinghouse and Fluor ramp up workforce on long-delayed Georgia project

Scott Judy

January 18, 2017

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Last spring, at the Plant Vogtle construction site near Waynesboro, Ga., executives representing Georgia Power, its lead contractors and trades groups gathered to commit publicly to turning around the $16-billion nuclear power-plant expansion.

DOE and Los Alamos Labs Sued Over Failure To Meet Deadlines

May 18, 2016

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A lack of funding for comprehensive hazardous-waste cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory required by a 2005 consent order could expose the lab’s operator and the Dept. of Energy to a daily fine of $487,000 under federal law, if a non-profit group’s lawsuit succeeds.

DOE and Bechtel Spar Again Over $12B Nuclear Waste Treatment Plant Design

Tim Newcomb

September 5, 2012

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Gary Brunson, the U.S. Energy Dept. engineering director at the Hanford $12.2-billion Waste Treatment Plant project, claims Bechtel National Inc. is doing such a poor job of managing engineering at DOE's Washington state site that the contractor should be removed.

Crews Will Wrap DOE Site Reactor in Steel To Decay Radioactivity

Tim Newcomb

March 21, 2012

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Aiming for a safer approach to "cocoon" a defunct nuclear reactor at the U.S. Energy Dept.'s Hanford waste site in Washington state while its radioactivity decays over 75 years, crews will enclose it in a steel shell.

Tide May Be Turning for Power Generated by Moon and Waves

January 30, 2012

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Wave and tidal power could provide up to a third of the electricity in the United States by 2030, according to two new reports released on Jan. 18 by the Dept. of Energy.