Bechtel-built multi-billion-dollar facility successfully poured its first molten glass in runup to planned waste treatment process set for 2025.

Bid protest by Atkins-Jacobs-Westinghouse competing team is key factor in megacontract dispute, but neither the judge, companies nor U.S. Energy Dept. will comment on the invalidated contract or on what will happen next.

Giant 10-year O&M contract combines functions of two awards originally planned—one to manage millions of gallons of radioactive waste stored underground at the former weapons site and the other to operate its multi-billion-dollar waste treatment plant awaiting startup.

Cause of sudden death was not disclosed of exec who led the $17B Hanford nuclear waste vitrification plant project, but Bechtel has named company veteran Brian Hartman as new project director.

US Government Accountability Office conducted an audit of procurement process issues in the largest DOE contracts awarded from 2015 to 2020.

A 20-year effort to develop a process to eliminate radioactive and chemical wastes stored underground for decades at a former federal nuclear weapons production site reached a milestone last year with key facility testing, with work that had been overseen by the Bechtel project executive.