Wayne Barber

Shenandoah Valley

Reporter at ExchangeMonitor

Exchange Monitor reporter covering radioactive waste cleanup. Watcher of too much ESPN. RTs are not endorsements.

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UCOR fills basement of Y-12 Beta-1 facility with concrete-like material - ExchangeMonitor

1 week ago | exchangemonitor.com | Wayne Barber

The Department of Energy’s cleanup contractor at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee has deactivated the above-ground floors of a contaminated building at the Y-12 National Security Complex and is filling up the basement at the facility, DOE said last week. The DOE Office of Environmental Management contractor, United Cleanup Oak Ridge, is pouring more than 3,000 truckloads of concrete-like material into the basement of the Beta-1 Building, Environmental Management said in a release last week.
Bechtel could continue work at Hanford vit plant through 2026 - ExchangeMonitor

1 week ago | exchangemonitor.com | Wayne Barber

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Amentum reports increased earnings, cites nuclear biz - ExchangeMonitor

1 week ago | exchangemonitor.com | Wayne Barber

Earnings rose at Amentum, Chantilly, Va., in its second quarter, which the government contractor partly attributed Wednesday to demand for nuclear work and divestiture of a non-core asset. Net earnings for the second quarter ended March 28 were $4 million, or $0.02 a share, up from a loss of $41 million or $0.46 a share, in the year-ago quarter. Quarterly revenue was $3.5 billion, up year-over-year from $2.1 billion.
Weapons Complex Monitor Vol. 36 No. 17

1 week ago | exchangemonitor.com | Wayne Barber

Weapons Complex Monitor is a weekly online publication that brings you first-hand reports from Washington, the major DOE sites and national laboratories, interviews with top-level officials, and predictions for upcoming moves that will affect your business strategy.
RadWaste & Materials Monitor Vol. 18 No. 17

1 week ago | exchangemonitor.com | Trey Rorie |Wayne Barber

RadWaste & Materials Monitor provides weekly news and intelligence on radioactive waste management, including information on commercial and federal LLRW disposal, storage and treatment, decommissioning and decontamination, rad material recycling, and more.
Many familiar faces exit DOE nuclear complex during Trump 2.0 - ExchangeMonitor

1 week ago | exchangemonitor.com | Wayne Barber

During the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term he has moved aggressively to reduce the federal workforce and the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons complex has not been immune. Trump’s second term, which started Jan. 20, hit the 100-day mark this week on April 30.
TVA files environmental report for its Clinch River SMR - ExchangeMonitor

1 week ago | exchangemonitor.com | Trey Rorie |Wayne Barber

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With WIPP again receiving shipments, new ventilation system nearly ready - ExchangeMonitor

2 weeks ago | exchangemonitor.com | Wayne Barber

The Department of Energy has targeted disposal 425 shipments of transuranic waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico during fiscal 2025, and so far, there have been 151, a DOE official said Wednesday night. Mindy Toothman, the site operations and infrastructure division director for DOE’s Carlsbad Field Office, cited the numbers during a regular public briefing on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).
Idaho, DOE announce ‘targeted waiver’ of settlement agreement - ExchangeMonitor

2 weeks ago | exchangemonitor.com | Wayne Barber

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DOE report says Hanford cleanup costs $72 billion above 2022 estimate for lower range - ExchangeMonitor

3 weeks ago | exchangemonitor.com | Sarah Salem |Wayne Barber

In a Lifecycle report released every three years, the Department of Energy said costs to fully complete the nation’s biggest and most expensive nuclear cleanup in Washington State will be between $364 billion and $589.4 billion. The Hanford Lifecycle Scope, Schedule, and Cost Report, released April 15, also estimated that cleanup could not be complete until fiscal 2086, with long-term stewardship at the Hanford nuclear legacy site stretching until 2100.