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Underground waste tanks

DOE Readies Big Contracts But Nuke Waste Cleanup Costs Keep Rising

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Mary B. Powers
April 24, 2019
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Three multi-billion-dollar federal Hanford site awards will be made in June
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DOE proposal hearing

Energy Interests at Odds Over DOE Proposal

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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.


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Demolition at Hanford’s Plutonium Plant Includes Cranes

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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.
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Project Delivery

Turnaround Eludes Nuclear Power Plant Vogtle

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


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

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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.
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Crews Will Wrap DOE Site Reactor in Steel To Decay Radioactivity

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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.
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Tide May Be Turning for Power Generated by Moon and Waves

Pam Radtke
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.
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Ball State Reworks Campus Heating and Cooling System

Pam Radtke
January 9, 2012
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Digging 3,600 holes within the boundaries of an active 660-acre campus of 22,000 students might seem to be a logistical nightmare.
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